Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL's fire and EMS personnel spend overnight hours training, preparing equipment, and staying ready to respond when needed. It's an essential part of keeping a national laboratory safe 24 hours a day.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the work that helps protect people, facilities, and critical scientific operations around the clock: https://bit.ly/4azpeze

A new dual-fuel system enables marine engines to operate on more than 75% methanol across a wide range of power levels while maintaining performance.

By using a small amount of diesel fuel to start combustion, the system helps overcome one of the biggest challenges to methanol adoption in marine engines. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4vjwGq8

When most of the lab winds down, the Spallation Neutron Source keeps moving.

At ORNL, operators, technicians, engineers and support staff work through the night to keep experiments on track and help researchers get the data they need. Their behind-the-scenes work supports neutron science for scientists from around the world.

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The Genesis Mission is helping shape the next chapter of U.S.-Japan scientific collaboration.

Today, ORNL welcomed representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a tour of the lab’s supercomputing and advanced manufacturing facilities.

The visit also brought together industry participants from Japan, including NTT and Fujitsu, along with several U.S. companies, underscoring the role of public-private collaboration in moving scientific advances toward real-world impact.

The visit follows U.S. Department of Energy's announcement of a historic U.S.-Japan partnership under the Genesis Mission, which will connect national laboratories, Japanese research institutions, advanced computing resources, user facilities, industry partners and scientific teams to accelerate discovery.

At ORNL, those capabilities span high-performance computing, AI-enabled science, advanced manufacturing, neutron sciences, and fusion and fission energy research. Together, they give researchers and partners powerful tools to model complex systems, analyze massive datasets, test materials and explore technologies critical to energy security.

Partnerships like this show what the Genesis Mission is built to support: bringing together people, data, advanced computing, experimental capabilities and industry expertise to move discovery faster.

There are roughly 17 miles of steam lines running beneath ORNL's campus.

Keeping them operating safely and reliably is a 24/7 job.

Day and night, teams monitor critical water and steam systems that help power research, protect infrastructure, and keep the laboratory running.

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New detection method could help protect transportation and critical infrastructure 🕵

ORNL researchers demonstrated a new approach for detecting underground tunnels by sending acoustic signals upward from beneath the target instead of downward from the surface. The method revealed a distinct signal that appeared only when a tunnel was present.

Learn more about this new detection method: https://bit.ly/4vlxT0p

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