Scanning radioactive nuclear fuels and materials is the specialty of INL’s Irradiated Materials Characterization Lab, where Chuirazzi works. An array of shielding and other precautions is required to ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory marked another year of groundbreaking research and innovation in ...

Despite the plutonium oxalate method's wide use in plutonium reprocessing, the method's mechanistic details remain unclear, particularly the identity of the plutonium oxidation state during conversion ...

Miaofang Chi is an ORNL Corporate Fellow at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS). She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis in ...

Jens Glaser is a computational scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where his research involves developing novel algorithms for soft matter simulation, with application to nanoparticles and ...

ORNL’s annual workshop has become the premier forum for molten salt reactor, or MSR, collaboration and innovation, convening industry, academia and government experts to further advance MSR research ...

Tao Wang is a Staff Associate in the Nanomaterials Chemistry Group, Chemical Science Division at ORNL. Before joining the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2020, he spent a number of years at Jilin ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a fundamental evolutionary process that plays a key role in bacterial evolution. The likelihood of a successful transfer event is expected to depend on the precise ...

Héctor is a postdoctoral research associate in the Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials group in the Science Engagement section at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS).

Inverse material design is an extremely challenging optimization task made difficult by, in part, the highly nonlinear relationship linking performance with composition. Quantitative approaches have ...

Nicholas Richter joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a postdoctoral research associate in 2023 working in the Alloy Behavior and Design group in the Materials Science and Technology ...

The invented alloys are a new family of Al-Mg alloys. This new family of Al-based alloys demonstrate an excellent ductility (10 ± 2 %elongation) despite the high content of impurities commonly ...