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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Apr-2026 14:16 ET (23-Apr-2026 18:16 GMT/UTC)

23-Apr-2026

Nuclear construction breakthrough earns ORNL 2026 SME Award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has won the 2026 SME Aubin Additive Manufacturing Case Study Award, which recognizes outstanding real-world applications of 3D printing. ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility led the effort, using large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) to create high-precision molds for advanced nuclear reactors. The work could help lower costs and shorten timelines for building new nuclear plants in the United States.

21-Apr-2026

Artificial intelligence comes to particle detectors through NEUROPix

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing AI-enabled pixel detectors that can analyze particle-collision data directly at the source. The approach could help particle-physics experiments identify and capture the most important signals from the enormous amounts of data modern accelerators produce, helping scientists make faster, more informed discoveries from some of the world’s most complex experiments.

Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Science

17-Apr-2026

Ceremony marks construction milestone

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories provides an update about construction on a facility critical to national security.

14-Apr-2026

Cullen named Microscopy Society of America Fellow for microscopy advances

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

ORNL researcher David Cullen has been named a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America for significant contributions to microscopy. His work advances electron microscopy techniques that reveal materials and catalysts at the nanoscale, helping speed progress in energy-related and other technology research.

10-Apr-2026

DOME, world’s first nuclear reactor test bed, ready for privately developed advanced reactors

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) – The highly anticipated National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) test bed is open for business.

8-Apr-2026

ORNL receives six Federal Lab Consortium awards for Technology Transfer Excellence

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards recognize outstanding achievements in the successful transfer of technology from laboratory to industry. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory was recently awarded six FLC awards, including the 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, for technology commercialized by Element3 that enables the extraction of lithium from oil and gas wastewater.

30-Mar-2026

Collaboration between ORNL, General Atomics to advance manufacturing for energy and security

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore advanced manufacturing for extreme environment materials with energy and national security applications.

26-Mar-2026

AAAS elects ORNL scientist Jennifer Morrell-Falvey as fellow

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Jennifer Morrell-Falvey, a senior staff scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy