Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) maintains one of the richest and most diverse histories in the federal government. Although the department itself has only existed since 1977, its lineage traces ...

For decades, the U.S. has attracted talented scientists from all over the world. That may be changing.

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The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by ...

The history of science has long been dominated by familiar male names, yet women have made extraordinary contributions that ...

By Paolo Surico When we think about wartime innovation, we usually imagine dramatic breakthroughs: Alan Turing’s cracking of ...

Carolyn Krause traveled to many of the future nuclear energy company sites in Oak Ridge last fall. She takes a look at Centrus Energy and Tyone One Energy ...

Work on nuclear physics in the early twentieth century moved across borders, institutes and private letters. Lise Meitner was ...

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Oak Ridge is becoming a nuclear energy hub with Orano USA building a uranium enrichment plant and Oklo developing a nuclear fuel recycling facility, creating jobs and boosting US energy independence.