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Fighting terrorism in the lab
Aerial view of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s main campus, looking west. (ORNL photo/Jason Richards) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as implied by its name, is supposed to serve the nation and its...
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Zacharia, Paranthaman elected to AAAS
Two of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s finest — Deputy Director Thomas Zacharia (pictured, left) and Distinguished Researcher Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (right) — have been elected fellows of the...
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Checking out ORNL’s electricity bill
So, in case you’ve ever wondered, Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses a lot of electricity to carry out its missions for the U.S. Department of Energy. The bill annually exceeds $30 million, and there...
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Harvard prof confirmed as DOE’s science chief
Cherry Murray, whose distinguished career has included positions at Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was confirmed this week by the U.S. Senate as director of the...
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Alexander: DOE Office of Science due for record funding
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development, said the Energy & Water Appropriations Bill (to be included in the proposed...
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ORNL contractor gets high marks from DOE
ORNL photo UT-Battelle, the government’s managing contractor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2000, scored high marks on its Fiscal Year 2015 report card from the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
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ORNL director thanks employees for ‘remarkable’ year
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason went to Washington, D.C. earlier this week, along with other top lab officials, to be briefed on the contractor’s evaluation from the Department of...
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ORNL’s Sheng Dai makes The List
Sheng Dai, a Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leader of the Nanomaterials Chemistry Research Group, has been named to a list of scientists whose published work is most often cited...
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ORNL achieves milestone in producing plutonium-238 for space missions
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory employee uses a remote-manipulator to move a vial of plutonium-238 oxide inside a shielded hot cell at ORNL’s Radiochemical Engineering Development Center. (ORNL...
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A scary look at niobium
This was originally a black-and-white image of a single crystal sphere of niobium as viewed by an electron microscope at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1980s. The color was added to make it...
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Bird’s eye view of Oak Ridge Federal Building (1971)
Aerial view of the Oak Ridge Federal Building in March 1971. (Department of Energy archives/Frank Hoffman photo)
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ORAU’s contract extended through June
Oak Ridge Associated Universities’ contractor for managing DOE’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, has been extended through the end of June to allow for continued evaluation submitted for...
View ArticleDOE to investigate Argonne accident
The Department of Energy’s Office of Enforcement has informed the contractor at Argonne National Laboratory of plans to investigate the “facts and circumstances” of a recent accident involving an...
View Article‘Work for Others’ gets OK at Pacific Northwest
The Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General audited the FY 2014 “work for others” program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and conclusion was that PNNL is generally meeting the...
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ORNL’s Biology Division (1949)
Here’s a view of the entrance to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Biology Division, which was physically located at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. Photo was taken Feb. 17, 1949. (Department of Energy...
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An Oak Ridge icon
Nobody loves Oak Ridge more than Joe Lenhard. He’s an Oak Ridge icon. The 86-year-old health physicist was the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge research chief back in the day. He retired from federal...
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ORNL’s Mason talks about the FY 2017 budget request
A big emphasis in Department of Energy’s proposed FY 2017 budget is the so-called Mission Innovation, which is an agreement between the United States and 19 other countries to double research on clean...
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Farragut wins Middle School Science Bowl
The winning team, from left, Kevin Wang, Prajwal Jagadish, Caden Farley, Aditya Bal, Luke Kronzer and Coach Mary Sue Pruitt. A team from Farragut Middle School won the sixth annual Tennessee Middle...
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Spent fuel arrives at ORNL; research under way
Spent fuel rods from a commercial reactor in Virginia will be studied in hot cells at ORNL’s Irradiated Fuels Examination Laboratory. (KNS/Munger photo) The Department of Energy has confirmed that...
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China tops foreign visit list at ORNL — again
It’s China. Again. Oak Ridge National Laboratory approved 7,863 visits by foreign nationals in 2015, and the biggest number — 1,859 — involved citizens of China. That’s no surprise. China has topped...
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