OAK Ridge National Laboratory

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ORNL’s Parans Paranthaman and Jayanthi Kumar prepare to load an autoclave with lithium brine and sorbent to initiate a hydrothermal reaction for lithium recovery. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy With support from the Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Texas-based company Element3 has launched the first domestic lithium mining project in 50 years.

Find the information, people and opportunities you’re looking for. Ensuring U.S. leadership in the development, manufacture, and deployment of materials, chemistries, and components for energy and security applications. Leading the biotechnology revolution to ensure American energy, food security, global competitiveness, and human health.

Find the information, people and opportunities you’re looking for. Ensuring U.S. leadership in the development, manufacture, and deployment of materials, chemistries, and components for energy and security applications. Leading the biotechnology revolution to ensure American energy, food security, global competitiveness, and human health.

Find the information, people and opportunities you’re looking for. Ensuring U.S. leadership in the development, manufacture, and deployment of materials, chemistries, and components for energy and security applications. Leading the biotechnology revolution to ensure American energy, food security, global competitiveness, and human health.

The home where George and Cassie Rayfield lived. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Tucked among the modern research facilities and humming supercomputers of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sits a tiny, prewar churchyard, a perfectly preserved remnant of the Appalachian farming communities removed in 1942 to make room for the Manhattan Project.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has released the 2026 edition of the U.S. Hydropower Market Report, providing updated statistics and analysis of trends in conventional hydropower and pumped storage hydropower (PSH).

ORNL technician Nathan Sims works on berkelium recovering in a protective glovebox. Credit: ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the Western world’s only source for the neutron-emitting radioisotope californium-252 (Cf-252), which an industrial consortium uses to make sealed sources used for nuclear reactors startups, among other applications.

Lisa Debeer-Schmitt, a neutron scattering scientist at ORNL, holds a sample mount while explaining sample preparation and positioning to students, including Michelle Sandag, at the General Purpose Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Diffractometer. Credit: Alonda Hines/ORNL, U.S. Dept.

ORNL rigger/iron workers Trenton Hayes and Damon Parks attach the first of the six canisters for shipment to Natura Resources. Credit: Amy Smotherman Burgess/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy More than 60 years after the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) pioneered molten salt reactor technology, material from that historic effort are being prepared to support the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors.