Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy ( DOE ) by UT-Battelle.

ORNL is the largest science and

ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville.

* Physics-Physics research at ORNL is focused primarily on studies of the fundamental properties of matter at the atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear levels and the development of experimental devices in support of these studies.

ORNL funding exceeds $ 1. 65 billion annually ; 80 percent of that amount comes from the Department of Energy, and 20 percent is from other federal and private customers.

The Institut Laue-Langevin source in Grenoble in France is the major fission source in Europe, the High Flux Isotope Reactor at ORNL is the equivalent in the US.

It is operated as a partnership between the United States Department of Energy, the University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) and is located approximately half-way between the university campus and the ORNL site in Oak Ridge.

The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences ( CNMS ) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) is a U. S. Department of Energy / Office of Science Nanoscale Science Research Center ( NSRC ) operating as a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary user research facility.

A specific example of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement ( CRADA ) is between NREL, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) and the Ampulse Corporation to develop a less expensive silicon solar cell.

This is a collaboration project between Tessella, ISIS, and ORNL.

Annual release of uranium and thorium radioisotopes from coal combustion, predicted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory | ORNL to cumulatively amount to 2. 9 million tons over the 1937-2040 period, from the combustion of an estimated 637 billion tons of coal worldwide.

* Historic photos of X-10 ( now ORNL ) by Ed Westcott

Annual release of uranium and thorium radioisotopes from coal combustion, predicted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory | ORNL to cumulatively amount to 2. 9 million tons over the 1937-2040 period, from the combustion of an estimated 637 billion tons of coal worldwide.

The first version was written at ORNL in 1989, and after being rewritten by University of Tennessee, version 2 was released in March 1991.

Articles from Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) indicate that the term stands for " safety cut rope axe man ", referring in that case to the early neutronic safety mechanism of using a person equipped with an axe to cut the rope suspending the control rods over the Chicago Pile nuclear reactor, at which point the rods would fall by gravity into the reactor core, shutting the reactor down.

" The Diffraction of Neutrons by Crystalline Powders ", Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ), United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( April 28, 1947 ).

" The Crystal Structure of Thorium and Zirconium Dihydrides by X-ray and Neutron Diffraction ", Ames Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ), United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( Apr.

The " Daniels ' pile " was an early version of the later high-temperature gas-cooled reactor developed further at ORNL without success, but later being developed as nuclear power plant by Rudolf Schulten.

* SRMs have been used in production by several facilities including BNL, NERSC, FNAL, CERN, TJNAF, ORNL and NCAR, and other facilities in Europe and Asia.

Prior successes include the NREL and SkyFuel partnership in the next generation of solar parabolic troughs, and also the partnership between NREL scientists, Ampulse Corporation, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) to create a less expensive alternative to wafer crystalline silicon solar cells.

Specifically, Wallace Koehler, a technician working for the Manhattan Project at Chicago Pile 1, under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, and later a research physicist at ORNL, reportedly said that Enrico Fermi coined the term as this acronym.

These new sites were Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ), Purdue University, Indiana University, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center ( TACC ) at The University of Texas at Austin.

In 1969 he left ORNL to become Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, where he eventually became chairman.

ORNL partners with the state of Tennessee, universities and industries to solve challenges in energy, advanced materials, manufacturing, security and physics.

Today the JGI's partner laboratories include Berkeley Lab, LLNL, LANL, as well as Oak Ridge ( ORNL ), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ), and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology ( formerly associated with the Stanford Human Genome Center ).

The Nanomaterials Theory Institute provides collaborative workspaces, visualization equipment, and high-speed connections to the terascale computing facilities of ORNL ’ s National Center for Computational Sciences and the national Leadership Scientific Computing Facility.

Other supercomputers that use the Lustre file system include the third fastest Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) and systems at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Texas Advanced Computing Center and NASA in North America, in Asia at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and one of the largest systems in Europe at CEA.

ORNL conducts research and development activities that span a wide range of scientific disciplines.

* Nanotechnology-Basic nanoscience research at ORNL emphasizes discovery of new materials and phenomena and the understanding of underlying physical and chemical interactions that enables prediction of the composition and properties of next-generation functional materials.

At ORNL, unique facilities for energy-related R & D are used both for technology development and for fundamental investigations in the basic energy sciences that underpin the technology.

* Materials science / Advanced materials-Scientists at ORNL are involved in studies ranging from fundamental research to the latest applications of virtually all classes of materials.

Thousands of guest scientists come to ORNL each year to make use of its world-class facilities.

ORNL has a staff of about 4, 600 full-time staff members, including 3000 scientists and engineers.

ORNL receives 30, 000 visitors each year, plus another 10, 000 precollege students.

In the March 8, 2002 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Science, Rusi P. Taleyarkhan and colleagues at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) reported that acoustic cavitation experiments conducted with deuterated acetone () showed measurements of tritium and neutron output that were consistent with the occurrence of fusion.

* www. ornl. gov-Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) Building Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) has developed a new alternative to skylights called Hybrid Solar Lighting.

At night, ORNL HSL uses variable-intensity fluorescent lighting electronic control ballasts.

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