State officials Ramsey, Yager visit ORNL
Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, who is also the Republican Senate Speaker, and Sen. Ken Yager, a Harriman Republican, visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Thursday afternoon. Their agenda included...
View ArticleAfter two target failures, user research resumes at SNS this morning
Its mercury targets have failed twice in the past two months, but the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is available for user research again. The program resumed at 8 a.m....
View ArticleTwo ORNL researchers, two joint faculty receive DOE early career awards
Materials science and physics research led by early career Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists received a boost this week from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career...
View ArticleTop neutron scientists named to positions at ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Neutron Sciences Directorate, or NScD, home organization for the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor, has filled two high-level administrative...
View ArticleFORNL has third talk on international thermonuclear project on Tuesday
Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will have its third talk on the U.S. ITER project on Tuesday. ITER is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, and it will be constructed at...
View ArticleRecord-breaker: SNS operates at full power—1.4 megawatts—for users for first...
The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory operated steadily at its full design power of 1.4 megawatts for researchers for the first time on June 26. “We’re producing neutrons now...
View ArticlePaul Langan to lead ORNL’s Neutron Sciences Directorate
Paul Langan, a senior scientist and distinguished research staff member at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named ORNL’s associate laboratory director for neutron...
View ArticleKnox commissioner, SNS manager to speak at MLK Breakfast in Atomic City
Knox County Commissioner Sam McKenzie will be the featured speaker at the 27th annual Martin Luther King Fellowship Breakfast. The breakfast has been organized by the Atomic City Sportsmen. Everyone is...
View ArticleLooking ahead: SNS users visit to discuss next-generation target station at ORNL
More than 200 scientists from around the world met from October 27 to 29 at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to provide input on the scientific instruments that would be...
View ArticleORNL researchers discover new state of water molecule
Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched by any known gas, liquid, or solid states. In...
View ArticleORNL, Boeing set Guinness World Record with 3D printed tool for Boeing 777X...
HARDIN VALLEY—A tool made by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has set a world record for largest solid item manufactured on a 3D printer. Guinness World Records confirmed the tool’s measurements during...
View ArticleMason leaving ORNL for Battelle
Note: This story was last updated at 3:05 p.m. Thom Mason, the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2007, is leaving the lab for a job at Battelle. Mason announced the move in an email to...
View ArticleDOE’s public bus tour began in March, continues through November
Visitors see Oak Ridge’s past and present The U.S. Department of Energy’s 2017 Oak Ridge facilities public bus tour began March 3 and continues through November 27. The tour offers visitors a...
View ArticleORNL pursuing two major upgrades at SNS
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is pursuing two major upgrades to its Spallation Neutron Source that would allow new scientific research and could cost more than $1 billion. The two proposed upgrades...
View ArticleORNL: World’s smallest neutrino detector finds big physics fingerprint
By Dawn Levy/ORNL After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the...
View ArticleSNS completes full neutron production cycle at record power level
The Spallation Neutron Source at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has reached a new milestone by operating a complete neutron production run cycle at 1.3 megawatts, a...
View ArticleNeutron production at ORNL’s SNS reaches design power level
The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has broken a new record by ending its first neutron production cycle in fiscal year 2019 at its design power level of 1.4 megawatts....
View ArticleFour workers received small external doses, SNS outage started early after...
Note: This story was updated at 12 p.m. July 19. Four workers received small external radiation doses and a planned outage of the Spallation Neutron Source was started a few days early after an...
View ArticleFor members: Construction planned for SNS power upgrade
The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory reached its operational power design level by running a neutron production cycle at 1.4 megawatts, the lab said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018....
View ArticleSNS adding 20th instrument
A 20th research instrument is under construction at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The new neutron imaging instrument is known as VENUS, or Versatile Neutron Imaging...
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