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## 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. Along with his success at ORNL, Miller is also focusing on becoming a mentor for kids, giving back to the place where he discovered his passion and developed his skills. 

## NASA uses ORNL supercomputers to plan smooth landing on Mars

February 29, 2024

Since 2019, a team of NASA scientists and their partners have been using NASA’s FUN3D software on supercomputers located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to conduct computational fluid dynamics simulations of a human-scale Mars lander. The team’s ongoing research project is a first step in determining how to safely land a vehicle with humans onboard onto the surface of Mars.

## 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 Research Projects Agency DRACO program.

## Researchers 3D print moon rover wheel prototype with NASA

October 6, 2023

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with NASA, are taking additive manufacturing to the final frontier by 3D printing the same kind of wheel as the design used by NASA for its robotic lunar rover, demonstrating the technology for specialized parts needed for space exploration.

## Pu-238 shipment quantity 'opens the tap' for space missions

September 15, 2023

In June, ORNL hit a milestone not seen in more than three decades: producing a production-quality amount of plutonium-238

## 50 years after NASA’s Apollo mission, moon rocks still have secrets to reveal

March 31, 2023

How did we get from stardust to where we are today? That’s the question NASA scientist Andrew Needham has pondered his entire career.

## Physics — Cosmic collisions revealed

May 2, 2022

Scientists are using Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Multicharged Ion Research Facility to simulate the cosmic origin of X-ray emissions resulting when highly charged ions collide with neutral atoms and molecules, such as helium and gaseous hydrogen.

## Communications — Space to ground

May 2, 2022

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is debuting a small satellite ground station that uses high-performance computing to support automated detection of changes to Earth’s landscape. 

## Materials — Ride, sample, ride

March 1, 2022

To study how space radiation affects materials for spacecraft and satellites, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists sent samples to the International Space Station. The results will inform design of radiation-resistant magnetic and electronic systems. 

## Secretary’s Honor Awards recognize dozens of ORNL employees

January 27, 2022

More than 50 current employees and recent retirees from ORNL received Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards from Secretary Jennifer Granholm in January as part of project teams spanning the national laboratory system. The annual awards recognized 21 teams and three individuals for service and contributions to DOE’s mission and to the benefit of the nation. 

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