Illustrator: Nathan Armistead View Full Size Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is moving forward with plans for a third neutron source: the Second Target Station (STS) at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), to address emerging materials science challenges. STS will offer up to 1,000x higher performance than existing sources, enable faster data collection as well …
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Illustrator: Adam Malin and Nathan Armistead View Full Size Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a leader in research that advances our understanding of complexity in biological systems. This work is leading to innovations that advance renewable energy, biodiversity science, sustainability, and help provide solutions to further the economy and tackle climate change. In support of …
Illustrator: Nathan Armistead View Full Size At 1.4 Megawatts the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is the most source in the world for pulsed neutron beams. The neutrons coupled with 20 leading instruments provides the research community with the ability to glean details about the nature of materials that cannot be obtained with any other technique. …
Illustrator: Adam Malin View Full Size Oak Ridge National Laboratory has built diverse teams of leading scientists, programmers, and engineers from across multiple disciplines who apply an integrated approach and leverage the lab’s unique tools and infrastructure to tackle some of the nation’s toughest cybersecurity challenges. These teams are working to advance cybersecurity research, provide …
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Illustrator: Nathan Armistead View Full Size The Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has 110,000 sq. ft. of space with world leading advanced manufacturing capabilities that enables visiting scientists to complete early-stage research and development to improve the energy and material efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness of American manufacturers. Some notable 3D printing …
Illustrator: Adam Malin and Nathan Armistead View Full Size Summit, the most powerful supercomputer in the nation, provides unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible. With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second—or 200 petaflops, …
Illustrator: Nathan Armistead View Full Size Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been leading research into energy and materials since 1943. Over the laboratory’s 75+ years it has contributed to thousands of breakthroughs some of which include the discovery of 11 elements, designs for nuclear reactors, revealing secrets of RNA, leading the development of supercomputing, …
Illustrator: Nathan Armistead View Full Size At 85 Megawatts (MW) the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) is the highest flux reactor-based source of neutrons in the United States and one of the most powerful in the world. Neutrons from HFIR are used to reveal the secrets of matter and energy, which fuels important discoveries in physics, chemistry, …
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