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Division Spotlight
Reactor Physics
The division's objectives are to promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena characterizing nuclear reactors and other nuclear systems. The division encourages research and disseminates information through meetings and publications. Areas of technical interest include nuclear data, particle interactions and transport, reactor and nuclear systems analysis, methods, design, validation and operating experience and standards. The Wigner Award heads the awards program.
Meeting Spotlight
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Taking shape: Fusion energy ecosystems built with public-private partnerships
It’s possible to describe fusion in simple terms: heat and squeeze small atoms to get abundant clean energy. But there’s nothing simple about getting fusion ready for the grid.
Private developers, national lab and university researchers, suppliers, and end users working toward that goal are developing a range of complex technologies to reach fusion temperatures and pressures, confounded by science and technology gaps linked to plasma behavior; materials, diagnostics, and electronics for extreme environments; fuel cycle sustainability; and economics.
Thursday, July 20, 2023|12:30–5:30PM EDT
Leaving from the Knoxville Convention Center
SOLD OUT
Bus will pick up at the Convention Center: Clinch Avenue Entrance, please arrive to this location at 12:15pm to pick up lunch before getting on the bus.
Price: $50 a person
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world’s premier research institution, empowering leaders and teams to pursue breakthroughs in an environment marked by operational excellence and engagement with the communities where we live and work.
ORNL Tour Agenda:Leave Hilton at 1:00pm1:45–2:00pm Bus arrives ORNL2:00– 3:00pm High Flux Isotope Reactor and Radio Chemical Engineering and Development Center3:10 – 3:30pm Board bus en route to Visitors Center and Walk en route to Frontier/Summit3:30 – 4:00pm Tour Frontier 4:00 – 4:10pm Walk en route to Visitors Center to board bus to Graphite Reactor4:20 – 4:50pm Tour Graphite ReactorBack to Hilton at 5:30pmHigh Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)Operating at 85 MW, HFIR is the highest flux reactor-based source of neutrons for research in the United States, and it provides one of the highest steady-state neutron fluxes of any research reactor in the world. The thermal and cold neutrons produced by HFIR are used to study physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and biology. Learn more
Radio Chemical Engineering and Development Center (REDC)At the REDC experts in radiochemical processing use specialized equipment and systems to produce unique radioisotopes for applications in research, national security, medicine, space exploration, and industry. Learn more
Frontier Tour
ORNL has decades of experience in delivering, operating, and conducting research on world-leading supercomputers. Frontier has leveraged ORNL’s extensive experience and expertise in GPU-accelerated computing to become the US Department of Energy’s next record-breaking supercomputer and the world’s first exascale system. Learn more
Graphite Reactor
During the 20 years the Graphite Reactor operated—from 1943 to 1963—it continued its pioneering role. It is the oldest reactor in the world. Watch and read more.
Note: Because of the construction close to the GR, the bus will have to drop guests off at the bottom of Hill Avenue, about a 2–3-minute walk up the hill. Please consider.