Sherri Essery, a glassblower in the Plant and Equipment Division’ shop in Building 4500-North, fashions a custom-made design. A limited number of scientific glassblowers still practice the craft in ...

Richard J. Norby Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory One Bethel Valley Road Bldg. 4500-N, MS-6301 Oak Ridge TN 37831-6301 Phone: (865) 576-5261 [email protected] Complete CV ...

Methane hydrates, a promising natural gas resource, are believed to reside throughout the globe in sea-floor sediments and permafrost. Lorie Langley, who is leading ORNL’s Gas Hydrate program for the ...

In the MSRE’s heyday: ORNL Director Alvin Weinberg (far left) and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg (pointing) were on hand in 1968, when the Molten Salt Reactor began operating with ...

Research is focused on predicting and explaining the properties of materials using computer simulation. Over the last two decades, advances in simulation techniques coupled with increasing computer ...

A thriving manufacturing sector is vital to the nation’s economic health and global security, yet few companies possess the research and development (R&D) capacity essential to staying competitive.

The expectation value of a trial wavefunction with the Hamiltonian must therefore be greater than or equal to the true ground state energy. Variational calculations depend crucially on the form of ...

Neandertal’s brutish brow and other features are identical to an iodine-deficient human condition called cretinism. One of the most mysterious creatures that ever walked the earth was Neandertal, a ...

Kerberos Task Force James A. Rome, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Douglas E. Engert, Argonne National Laboratory Kenneth Renard, Army Research Laboratory Purpose The Kerberos test bed was aimed at ...

A thriving manufacturing sector is vital to the nation’s economic health and global security, yet few companies possess the research and development (R&D) capacity essential to staying competitive.

The right hand side of the equations consists of four terms. The first and second give rise are the kinetic energy contribution and the electron-ion potential. The third term, or Hartree term, is the ...

Inaugurated in 1979, the "Buildings Conference" takes place every three years allowing time to develop new research and technology applications and to document the findings. Attendance is ...