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ORNL technology gets nod from EPA

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Prospects for cleaning up contaminated sites around the country are better because of a technology and procedure developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and recently accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency. The technology, which consists of direct sampling and analysis of volatile organic compounds in water, soil, gas and air, requires little if any sample preparation and yields results in three to five minutes.

ORNL assisting in effort to make skies safer

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A simple boarding pass could safeguard air travelers if an explosives detection system being developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Mass Spec Analytical is adopted. With the mass spectrometry-based instrument, a passenger’s ticket would become a passive sampling device that detects even a billionth of a gram of explosives such as nitroglycerine and TNT.

ORNL material could help pilots keep their cool

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Staying cool under fire could take on a new meaning with a personal cooling system being developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The system takes advantage of high thermal conductivity graphite foam, an ORNL material that boasts thermal conductivity five times greater than aluminum. As envisioned by James Klett, the system would provide chilled air to circulate within the suit and helmet of a fighter pilot.

Preliminary evidence suggests possible nuclear emissions during experiments

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Russian Academy of Sciences have reported results that suggest the possibility of nuclear reactions during the explosive collapse of bubbles in liquid, a process known as cavitation.

Journal: Science

ORNL helping make tomorrow’s soldiers all they can be

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator has nothing over the Objective Force Warrior envisioned by the Army and a team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and organizations throughout the country.

International effort to sequence the first tree genome

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Cottonwoods, hybrid poplars, and aspens could play a role in improving the environment, displacing imported oil and creating domestic jobs, but first scientists from the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and around the world must sequence the Populus genome.

DOE begins international effort to sequence tree genome

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cottonwoods, hybrid poplars and aspens could play a role in improving the environment, displacing imported oil and creating domestic jobs, but first scientists from the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and around the world have to sequence the Populus genome.

Coal flyash tested as building block material

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are testing a new wall system utilizing an extremely lightweight concrete building material that could be used in wall systems of future construction of homes and businesses.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2002

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Story tips focus on “mice on the move” (biology), revolutionary sensors (electronics), 3D polymer strings (chemistry), and a “collision course” (biology).

Present at the Creation

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

When they synthesized elements 114 and 116, Russian and Livermore scientists confirmed decades-old predictions of the existence of superheavy elements with comparatively long lifetimes.