Oak Ridge National Laboratory is among the world’s premier research institutions, empowering leaders and teams to pursue breakthroughs in an environment marked by operational excellence and engagement with the communities where we live and work.

ORNL's capabilities include Biology and Environment, Clean Energy, Fusion and Fission, Isotopes, Materials, National Security, Neutron Science, and Supercomputing.

We conduct world-leading research that translates science into solutions for the world’s biggest problems. Our translational R&D approach spans fundamental science to demonstration and deployment, leveraging signature strengths in materials, neutrons, nuclear, and computing sciences. We play a ...

3 天之前 · David Dunning, a master technician at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, received a Significant Achievement Award for the Robotics and Remote System Division at the 2024 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Winter Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida.. The ANS recognized Dunning, who has been with ORNL since 1983, for being instrumental in the development of the remote ...

2025年1月29日 · In a major milestone for cancer research, the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory helped reduce the time between cancer diagnosis and pathology report processing from 22 months to just 14 months, utilizing advanced artificial intelligence technology developed by ORNL's research team.

Through infrastructure and expertise, ORNL’s Compute and Data Environment for Science (CADES) addresses pressing data challenges. The platform enables user facilities, staff members, and research teams to process, manage, and analyze large amounts of data by leveraging HPC systems, scalable storage resources, and other analytical tools.

Compute Resources. The National Center for Computational Sciences and the Oak Ridge Leadership Facility manage leadership-class compute and data systems for both open science and dedicated research by program partners.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory marked three quarters of a century as a research institution in 2018. A few areas at the Department of Energy national laboratory still look like they did in 1943, particularly the Graphite Reactor Museum, where visitors can roam where physicist Enrico Fermi worked with other scientists and technicians in spartan, hastily constructed conditions, cloaked in …

ORNL researchers apply unique facilities, sophisticated tools, and signature strengths in neutron science, high-performance computing, advanced materials, biology and environmental science, nuclear science and engineering, isotopes, and national security research to …

2025年1月28日 · A team of scientists led by a professor from Duke University discovered a way to help make batteries safer, charge faster and last longer. They relied on neutrons at ORNL to understand at the atomic scale how lithium moves in lithium phosphorus sulfur chloride, a promising new type of solid-state battery material known as a superionic compound.