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## ORNL helping Roll-to-Roll Consortium scale up hydrogen technology

March 25, 2024

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing national leadership in a new collaboration among five national laboratories to accelerate U.S. production of clean hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers.  

## From rural roots to the global stage: Local robotics team heads to global FIRST Tech Challenge robotics championship

March 22, 2024

Alyson Coates, a Senior Technical Staff Member in ORNL's Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate, noticed a need for more STEM programs for young girls in her rural community in Blount County. So, she decided to fill the gap herself.

## Noah Miller: Intern working to make pellet inspection for Pu-238 Supply Program faster, safer 

March 18, 2024

College intern Noah Miller is on his 3rd consecutive internship at ORNL, currently working on developing an automated pellet inspection system for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Plutonium-238 Supply Program.

## Greenfield joins ORNL to bridge ITER, US fusion research

February 29, 2024

Chuck Greenfield, former assistant director of the DIII-D National Fusion Program at General Atomics, has joined ORNL as ITER R&D Lead.  

## Three FFESD staff members transition to new nuclear energy engagement roles

February 12, 2024

Three staff members in ORNL’s Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate have moved into newly established roles facilitating communication and program management with sponsors of the directorate’s Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division. 

## National Society of Black Physicists members tour ORNL, discuss “Frontiers in Physics”

January 30, 2024

ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, co-hosted the 2023 National Society of Black Physicists Annual Conference with the theme "Frontiers in Physics: From Quantum to Materials to the Cosmos.” As part of the three-day conference held near UT, 

## ORNL to lead project on remote maintenance and repair for fusion power plants

December 18, 2023

ORNL will lead a new DOE-funded project designed to accelerate bringing fusion energy to the grid.

## Two fusion energy sector leaders join ORNL

December 15, 2023

Two fusion energy leaders have joined ORNL in the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate, or FFESD.

## Military academy students join effort to send a nuclear thermal rocket to space by 2027

December 8, 2023

Nuclear engineering students from the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy are working with researchers at ORNL to complete design concepts for a nuclear propulsion rocket to go to space in 2027 as part of the Defense Advanced 

## ORNL to lead three public-private fusion projects through INFUSE program

December 6, 2023

ORNL is leading three research collaborations with fusion industry partners through the Innovation Network for FUSion Energy, or INFUSE, program that will focus on resolving technical challenges and developing innovative solutions to make practical fusi

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From rural roots to the global stage: Local robotics team heads to global FIRST Tech Challenge robotics championship

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Greenfield joins ORNL to bridge ITER, US fusion research