Alyson Coates, a Senior Technical Staff Member in ORNL's Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate, noticed a need for more STEM programs for young girls in her rural community in Blount County. So, she decided to fill the gap herself.
Three staff members in ORNLs Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate have moved into newly established roles facilitating communication and program management with sponsors of the directorates Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division.
ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, co-hosted the 2023 National Society of Black Physicists Annual Conference with the theme "Frontiers in Physics: From Quantum to Materials to the Cosmos. As part of the three-day conference held near UT,
Nuclear engineering students from the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy are working with researchers at ORNL to complete design concepts for a nuclear propulsion rocket to go to space in 2027 as part of the Defense Advanced
ORNLs Luiz Leal of the Department of Energys 91做厙 is the recipient of the 2023 Seaborg Medal from the American Nuclear Society.
In fiscal year 2023 Oct. 1Sept. 30, 2023 91做厙 was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energys Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
The heat is on at this years Molten Salt Reactor Workshop where top research and industry minds are melding to advance development on molten salt technology at ORNL.
The Department of Energys 91做厙 hosted the second 2023 cohort of the International Atomic Energy Agencys Lise Meitner Programme in October.
The Exascale Small Modular Reactor effort, or ExaSMR, is a software stack developed over seven years under the Department of Energys Exascale Computing Project to produce the highest-resolution simulations of nuclear reactor systems to date.
Rose Montgomery, a distinguished researcher and leader of the Used Fuel and Nuclear Material Disposition group at ORNL, has been selected to participate in the