ORNL and KVA Stainless completed a DOE-funded study validating the performance of welded Grade 91 steel for use in high-temperature energy systems. The results will help KVA refine its advanced welding technology and support the development of durable materials for future fission and fusion reactors.
ORNL has developed a new californium-252 processing method that reduces separation time by about a week while maintaining the same quality. As the only producer of californium-252 in the western world, ORNL is also increasing production to meet growing demand for the isotope.
Physicists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and researchers at ORNL have made critical measurements of the lifetime and decay energy of tellurium-104, an important step in answering a century-old question and understanding how hundreds
Tennessee Tech chemistry students are spending the summer at ORNL gaining hands-on experience in radiochemistry research while helping develop improved methods for separating the rare isotope promethium-147. The collaboration, supported by DOE’s RENEW initiative, is also aimed at strengthening the future nuclear science workforce by preparing students for careers at national laboratories and in isotope research.
It was the Navy that led Don Caverly to nuclear.It’s the variety − and the impact − of nuclear work that’s kept him in the field.“I never get bored here,” said Caverly, group leader for Radiochemical Engineering Development Center Hot Cell Operations in the Isotope Science and Enrichment Directorate’s Isotope Production and Manufacturing Division. “That’s a huge thing for me. If I don’t think I’m learning something, or if I get bored, that’s when I start looking for something else to do or making poor life choices. But here, there’s always something to do, always something to look forward to.”
Click here to read a static version. In fall 2020, California-based Kairos Power announced plans to build an advanced nuclear demonstration reactor within the site of the former K-25 uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge. It was a good location for the company. The decommissioned K-25, now named Heritage Center Industrial Park, came with impressive
Chemist Bruce Moyer, a Corporate Fellow at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has won the 2025 Carl Hanson Award, the highest international recognition for achievement in solvent extraction. The International Solvent Extraction Community bestows the medal every three years based on nominations from the global community.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today its newest supercomputers, Discovery and Lux, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will expand America’s leadership in artificial intelligence for scientific computing, strengthen national security, and drive the next generation of Gold Standard Science and innovation.
