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Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL hosts first Innovation Days

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Momentum for manufacturing innovation in the United States got a boost during the inaugural MDF Innovation Days, held recently at the U.S. Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A waterfall lost and a river found

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Matt and Brandon traveled to Ecuador's rainforests to map the Coca River with drones. The river is experiencing massive erosion and sedimentation problems after the San Rafael waterfall collapsed in 2020. Their work could help the country save a hydroelectric power plant that provides 30% of the country's electricity as well as roads and pipelines the area's people depend on for commerce and transportation.

New analysis platform shines light on utilities’ solar energy future

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with three other national labs, have developed a free online platform to help utilities understand how solar energy projects will affect the operation of their power systems. This capability can increase utilities’ confidence in expanding their solar portfolios, protecting reliable delivery of electricity while supporting U.S. efforts to slow climate change.

From massive structures to nanometers: ORNL’s scanning vibrometer used in quantum research

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A specialized piece of equipment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is used for measurements varying from extremely large structures to quantum. The equipment is available for projects within the national lab as well as outside.

Funder: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL, SLAC team up for breakthrough biology projects

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Under DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure initiative, a team from ORNL and SLAC is establishing a data portal that will enable Frontier to process the results from experiments conducted by LCLS-II. Scientists and users at LCLS will leverage ORNL’s computing power to study their data, conduct simulations and more quickly inform their ongoing experiments, all within a seamless framework.

Journal: Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Quietly making noise: Measuring differential privacy could balance meaningful analytics and healthcare data security

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ORNL researchers Vandy Tombs and Robert Bridges have developed a new method that improves on the standard method of differential privacy to allow healthcare data sharing while maintaining high levels of privacy.

At the Climate READi workshop: Resilient power systems in the context of climate change

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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions joined industry stakeholders in exploring solutions for power grid climate resilience at the Climate READi Southeast workshop co-hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and ORNL’s Water Power Program on April 10-11.

Funder: Electric Power Research Institute, ORNL Water Power Program

Adaptable IO System delivers data for high-performance computing science at ORNL

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Since its initial development in 2008 at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the open-source Adaptable IO System framework has become an essential tool for high-performance computing, or HPC, simulations around the world with an ever-evolving array of features and users.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Better Plants program leads to carbon reduction, cost savings for US manufacturing

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Helping hundreds of manufacturing industries across the United States increase energy efficiency requires a balance of teaching and training, blended with scientific guidance and technical expertise. It’s a formula for success that researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been providing to the Department of Energy’s Better Plants program for more than a decade.

Unconventional technology enhances composites important to automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries

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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials used in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries can be made stronger and tougher to better withstand mechanical or structural stresses over time.

Journal: Advanced Science

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