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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy national lab in Tennessee researching nuclear science, materials science, and energy technologies.
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A University of Regina group took a fractured Tyrannosaurus rex rib to two neutron instruments at Oak Ridge in April 2026, six years after X-ray scans first found soft tissue inside it, and the lab describes the neutron result as confirmation.
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Yale chemists checked hydride placements in one open-shell cobalt crystal against a neutron structure, and the microcrystal electron diffractometer came closest. The comparison rests on that single compound.
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Oak Ridge is engineering spore surfaces to bind neodymium and dysprosium in Appalachian mine water, where those metals are dilute. The pilot's main output was the assay needed to tell one engineered design from another.
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Oak Ridge chemists report cracking polyethylene into gasoline-range fuel below 200 degrees Celsius, using commercially available aluminium chloride salts that need no noble metal and no added hydrogen to work.
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Oak Ridge's STAR Lab tests sulfide solid-state and sulfur chemistries as complete cells, because the particle gaps, interface reactions and swelling that kill them do not appear in a materials test. Its results are scored against USABC metrics.
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LandScan Mosaic estimates people from building height, floor count and use type, with machine learning filling the gaps in sparse regions. ORNL says it is the first globally available population release to publish confidence measures.
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Natura Resources says it now holds the coolant for its MSR-1 demonstration reactor, shipped from Oak Ridge through Idaho National Laboratory to the Abilene Christian University site on September 18. It won the material in a DOE competition.
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Oak Ridge's dataset uses building height, floor count and use type to place people across a 24-hour average, and it reports how confident it is in each estimate. For siting work, that confidence figure matters as much as the count.
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Oak Ridge's detector straps onto a ventilation duct and samples once a minute on battery, or once a second when it is wired over Power over Ethernet. The crystal that makes it cheap costs a dollar or two.
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Labeled atomic force microscopy images are scarce, so an Oak Ridge team simulated the drift, noise and tip artifacts that operators fight every day, then tested whether models trained on the simulation find real features in real scans.
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Diego Alzate-Sanchez and Jenna Kin swapped a hydrogel's permanent crosslinks for imine boronic esters. The same reversible bonds that start closing a cut within minutes let acidity take the network back to its components.
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The 15.2 terawatt-hour total is the line that travels, but the usable part is HydroGenerate, downloadable and pointed at one dam, sizing a turbine to the water an operator is already obliged to pass.
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Twelve pennycress lines, 360 plants and more than 24,000 camera observations went into a nickel screen whose analysis now takes minutes, though the accumulation figures that would make phytomining a supply story sit outside the release.
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CrysVCD enforces oxidation-state balance before crystal structures are built, and reports 85 percent metastability and 68 percent phonon stability. The expensive part of the pipeline was always the filter.
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A new Oak Ridge memorandum puts a national lab, a university, two community colleges and a school district behind one reactor developer's manufacturing problem. Nothing is costed yet.
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ORNL and Idaho National Laboratory are aiming wire-arc printing at the one reactor input that design work cannot route around. The hard part is not the printing.
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Atomic Canyon's NIVA is now in use across North American reactors. The instructive part is the training corpus, not the chat window.
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Oak Ridge researchers report memristance and memcapacitance in the same model membrane, which turns lipid chemistry into a hardware design variable rather than biological background.
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HiddenLayer says it will contribute to Prometheus, the Idaho-led federal effort to put AI into reactor work. The Phase II selection belongs to the consortium, and still depends on appropriations.
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Rice researchers report that uniaxial strain shrinks both the residual moment and the anomalous Hall voltage in hexagonal FeS, while the underlying magnetic order sits still.
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