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ORNL launches Summit Supercomputer

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world's most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2018

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A direct brain-to-computer interface may be on the horizon. New insights into how quickly microorganisms break down organic matter in warming Arctic soil. Using liquid salt that contains FLiBe to cool molten salt reactors. Compact, powerful solar.

Detector improvements upgrade science capabilities of SNS and HFIR instruments

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Detectors at SNS and HFIR help researchers study scattered neutrons to better understand the nature of materials. An ORNL team designs detectors tailored to the scientific specialties and physical constraints of each individual instrument to collect the best possible data during experiments.

ORNL ramps up production of key radioisotope for cancer-fighting drug

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now producing actinium-227 (Ac-227) to meet projected demand for a highly effective cancer drug through a 10-year contract between the US DOE Isotope Program and Bayer.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Bayer

With supercomputing power, scientists solve a next-generation physics problem

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a team of researchers has calculated a fundamental property of protons and neutrons, known as the nucleon axial coupling, with groundbreaking precision. Ultimately, this and other calculations enabled by the team's computational technique could aid in the search for dark matter and help answer other outstanding questions about the nature of the universe.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Offices of Advanced Scientific Computing and Nuclear Physics, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Nuclear physicists leap into quantum computing with first simulations of atomic nucleus

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are the first to successfully simulate an atomic nucleus using a quantum computer. The results, published in Physical Review Letters, demonstrate the ability of quantum systems to compute nuclear physics problems and serve as a benchmark for future calculations.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Hotstick USA licenses ORNL direct-current detector for emergency responder safety

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

North Carolina-based Hotstick USA has exclusively licensed a direct-current detector technology developed by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help emergency responders safely detect high voltages.

Funder: US Fire Administration, US Department of Homeland Security

Supersonic waves may help electronics beat the heat

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory made the first observations of waves of atomic rearrangements, known as phasons, propagating supersonically through a vibrating crystal lattice -- a discovery that may dramatically improve heat transport in insulators and enable new strategies for heat management in future electronics devices.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

ORNL facility receives American Nuclear Society's historic landmark designation

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The American Nuclear Society has designated the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory an ANS Nuclear Historic Landmark, recognizing more than 50 years of isotope production and nuclear fuel cycle research.

Made in the USA

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

'Made in the USA.' That can now be said of the radioactive isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), last made in the United States in the late 1980s. Its short-lived decay product, technetium-99m (Tc-99m), is the most widely used radioisotope in medical diagnostic imaging. Tc-99m is best known for imaging blood flow in a cardiac nuclear stress test.

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