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21-Dec-2020
Welcome to Neutrino Alley
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The COHERENT experiment makes the most of the Spallation Neutron Source's neutrino factory with five detectors sited along a 164-foot, or 50-meter, long hallway that has come to be called Neutrino Alley. Here, Marcel Demarteau, director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, explains its successes and possibilities.
17-Dec-2020
Simulations reveal nature's design for error correction during DNA replication
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A Georgia State University team has used the nation's fastest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to find the optimal path that one E. coli enzyme uses to switch between building and editing DNA to rapidly remove misincorporated pieces of DNA.
11-Dec-2020
Righting a wrong, nuclear physicists improve precision of neutrino studies
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a new study clears up a discrepancy regarding the biggest contributor of unwanted background signals in specialized detectors of neutrinos. Better characterization of background could improve current and future experiments to detect real signals from these weakly interacting, electrically neutral subatomic particles and understand their role in the universe.
4-Dec-2020
Co-Optima research determines accurate predictor of fuel performance
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
As ORNL's fuel properties technical lead for the U.S. Department of Energy's Co-Optimization of Fuel and Engines, or Co-Optima, initiative, Jim Szybist has been on a quest for the past few years to identify the most significant indicators for predicting how a fuel will perform in engines designed for light-duty vehicles such as passenger cars and pickup trucks.
16-Nov-2020
Chuck Kessel: Forging paths for fusion's future
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Chuck Kessel leads the national Blanket and Fuel Cycle program, the national Fusion Energy Systems Studies program and the Virtual Laboratory of Technology and co-leads the Liquid-Metal Plasma-Facing Components program. He's devoted his career to making commercial fusion power a viable future option.
13-Nov-2020
ORNL, partners receive more than $4 million to advance AI control of complex systems
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and three partnering institutions have received $4.2 million over three years to apply artificial intelligence to the advancement of complex systems in which human decision making could be enhanced via technology.
29-Oct-2020
ORNL researcher studies individualized isotopes' impact by targeting cancer
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A radioisotope researcher in the Radioisotope Science and Technology Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Davern is focusing on ways to use nanoparticles -- particles 100 nanometers or smaller that can have special properties -- to contain those radioisotopes and deliver them directly to cancer cells, where they can decay into different isotopes that irradiate those cells.
28-Oct-2020
Oak Ridge National Lab industry collaboration enables job growth, N95 mask production in Florida
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A collaboration between the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Florida-based medical device manufacturer has led to the addition of 500 jobs in the Miami area to support the mass production of N95 respirator masks.
22-Oct-2020
Colorado School of Mines researchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers from the Colorado School of Mines used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor to measure residual stress of welds used to make large steel tanks that store molten salts for industrial concentrating solar plants.