Fusion and Fission at ORNL

🔬✨ Reflecting on a decade of innovation and looking ahead! For 10 years, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Molten Salt Reactor Workshop has brought together experts and innovators to advance #moltensalt science and technology. This year's workshop celebrated a decade of progress and set the stage for the next wave of breakthroughs. 🌟 ⚛️ 🔬 ⤵️ Dive into the workshop's highlights at the link below: https://lnkd.in/eeVUsDXF

⚛️ Nuclear energy is building momentum for an even brighter 2025! The Office of Nuclear Energy | U.S. Department of Energy just highlighted 1️⃣1️⃣ major milestones showcasing the incredible progress happening across the nuclear industry. From advancing cutting-edge nuclear technologies to building stronger global cooperation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is proud to contribute to these achievements and help shape the path forward in the new year. Explore the full story below ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/ehMVPdp7

2024 is almost over, but #NuclearIsHere to stay in East Tennessee! ⚛️ ⚛️ ⚛️ https://lnkd.in/gzveY8TQ

🎄✨ From all of us at the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate at ORNL, we wish you and your loved ones a peaceful holiday season. As we reflect on a year of innovation and discovery, we’re energized to continue advancing fusion and nuclear energy in 2025. ⚛️⚛️⚛️

The ORNL nuclear criticality and data teams had a significant impact at the recent Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP) Technical Program Review at Los Alamos National Laboratory, delivering 21 presentations during the two-day review. 📊 As the program’s second largest contributor, ORNL supports the NCSP’s mission to advance nuclear criticality safety by delivering tools, training, and infrastructure like nuclear data measurements, criticality safety code development and software distribution, and several training and education initiatives. ⚛️⚛️⚛️ 👏 Shout out to this great team for their continued impact on this program, and in ensuring the safe and efficient operation of fissionable materials. 🌟👏 Douglas Bowen, Timothy Valentine, Kursat Bekar, William Wieselquist, Klaus Guber, Iyad Al-Qasir, Ph.D., Goran A., Jesse Brown, Chris Chapman, Luiz Leal, Jordan McDonnell, Marco Pigni, Kemal Ramic, Doro Wiarda, Walid A. Metwally, Cihangir Celik, Mathieu Dupont, K. Lisa Fassino, Travis Greene, Veronica Karriem, Alex Shaw, Jordon Hardy Alexander Lang

👏 Ugur Mertyurek and team have secured $2.2M from DOE’s Data Science Program to commercialize their mutual information analytics (MIA) technology program. The MIA technology filters irrelevant data, enabling AI to focus on critical data and make better, bias-free decisions to enhance the reliability of AI applications across fields even beyond nuclear. 🤖 ⚛️ ➡️ Ugur received the initial support for this project from ORNL’s Walid A. Metwally Metwally, as well as Atul Karve and Hany Abdel-Khalik through the Office of Nuclear Energy | U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy I-Corps program. 🔗 Read more here: https://bit.ly/3OX2Lkq

🎉 Congratulations to Katherine R. Johnson, Ph.D. on completing her successful term as Chair of the American Chemical Society’s Younger Chemists Committee! 🧪🔬⚛️ During her three-year appointment, Katie has made a substantial impact to ACS, organizing workshops and symposia, contributing to C&EN magazine, and prioritizing recruitment and retention among the committee’s membership, resulting in a committee staffed with diverse experiences. Katie will continue to serve on ACS committees through 2027—we can’t wait to see what she does next! 🌟👏

🎉 Huge congratulations to ORNL's Karen Koop Hogue and JungHyun Bae for being named to Nuclear News' inaugural 40 Under 40 list! 🌟 Their dedication and contributions are shaping the future of nuclear science and technology. 🚀 We’re proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition! 👏 https://lnkd.in/eMSpn7kB

🗓️ Mark your calendars now for the 2025 FNM Fusion Neutronics Meeting. Abstracts are being sought now for high interest topic areas. #Fusion #FusionEnergy #Neutronics ↘️ ⬇️ ↙️

Meet FREDA – the Fusion REactor Design and Assessment project! FREDA is a cross-cutting, multi-institution effort led by ORNL to build a unified modeling tool capable of simulating an entire fusion reactor. This virtual doppelganger will enable fusion scientists and engineers to design, test and iterate on every aspect of a fusion power plant, from plasma physics to engineering components, leading to faster, more informed design and operation. Building on decades of experience in nuclear modeling, FREDA leverages ORNL's strengths in artificial intelligence, machine learning and high performance computing to combine physics and engineering models and optimize reactor design points for performance and safety. #fusion #fusionenergy Read more about FREDA at the link below 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eDfkrviy