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ORNL technology, $9M award helping Texas company expand

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 13, 2000 – nLine, a start-up Austin, Texas, company using a technology developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has received an Advanced Technology Program award of $9.4 million.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2000

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ENERGY - Super-efficient water heater; NUCLEAR ENERGY - Next- generation safe power plants; HEALTH - Lifesaver in the battlefield; PHYSICS - Two protons at a time.

ORNL supercomputer helping shed brighter light on fusion

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Some of the secrets to achieving fusion energy may be unlocked by calculations developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and run on the lab’s supercomputer.

Energy secretary announces plan to modernize Oak Ridge National Laboratory

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 11, 2000—Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson today announced a five-year plan that is being developed to modernize facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He was joined by Governor Don Sundquist, Congressman Zach Wamp (R-Chattanooga), Congressman Bob Clement (D-Nashville), and a host of federal, state and local officials.

ORNL helping EPA put instruments to the test

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 17, 2000 – Manufacturers of portable instruments or test kits to detect explosives or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in soil and transformer oil will have a better idea of how well their gear works after participating in a program at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Single-atom blinking phenomenon has ORNL scientists thinking big

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 21, 2000 – A whole new technology awaits exploration with the discovery of a technique for trapping single atoms, say scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

(1) Medical-SeizAlert to the rescue; (2) Chemistry- Micromixing the easy way; (3) Mapping-Polution distribution a click away; (4) Chemistry-Trapping single atoms.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Technology 2020 announce plan to create new companies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Technology 2020 have formed a partnership to help create more jobs in East Tennessee. Called the Center for Entrepreneurial Growth, the partnership will focus on taking technology developed at ORNL and using the technology to form new companies.

ORNL adds three R&D 100 Awards to DOE lab-leading total

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 26, 2000 -- Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 107 since the awards began in 1963

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

ORNL joins computing elite, surpasses 1 teraflop

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 20, 2000 -- Recently acquired supercomputers from IBM and Compaq have made Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) home to the most powerful unclassified computers in the nation and are advancing its leadership role in computational science.