Laboratory Information:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
111B Union Valley Road
Mail Stop 6499
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6499
Phone: 865-576-2577
Fax: 865-574-9241
Email: reevesme@ornl.gov
Website: http://www.ornl.gov/
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.ornl.gov/adm/tted/
Agency/Department: Dept. of Energy
Region: Southeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. Mark Reeves
Phone: 865-576-2577
Fax: 865-574-9241
Email: reevesme@ornl.gov
Background/History of the Laboratory:
A History of Great Science Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory. Managed since April 2000 by a partnership of the University of Tennessee and Battelle, ORNL was established in 1943 as a part of the secret Manhattan Project to pioneer a method for producing and separating plutonium. During the 1950s and 1960s, ORNL was an international center for the study of nuclear energy and related research in the physical and life sciences. The creation of the Department of Energy in the 1970s led to an expansion of ORNL's research program into areas of energy production, transmission, and conservation. By the turn of the century, the laboratory supported the nation with a peacetime mission that was just as important, but very different,
from the days of the Manhattan Project. The Lab at a Glance ORNL has a staff of more than 3,800 and approximately 3,000 guest researchers who spend two weeks or longer each year in Oak Ridge. ORNL funding for FY 2003 exceeded $1 billion for the first time. UT-Battelle provides more than $1.25 million annually in support of math and science education, economic development and other projects in the greater Oak Ridge region. A Campus for the Next Generation of Research ORNL is in the midst of a $300M plan to provide a modern campus for the next generation of great science. A unique combination of federal, state and private funds is building eleven new facilities. Included in these new facilities will be the Functional Genomics Center, the Center for Nanophase Materials Science, the Advance Materials Characterization Laboratory, and the Joint Institute for Computational Science. The World's Largest Civilian Science Project On budget and on schedule for completion in 2006, the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source will make Oak Ridge the world's foremost center for neutron science research.
Mission of the Laboratory:
ORNL is an international leader in a range of
scientific areas that support the Department of Energy's mission. The laboratory's six major mission roles include neutron science, energy, high-performance computing, systems biology, materials science at the nanoscale, and national security.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Facility Sharing
- Patents and Licensing
- Technical Assistance
- Work For Others
- User Agreement
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- High Performance Computing
- Intelligent Systems
- Life sciences
- Applied Mathematics
- Biotechnology
- Chemical sciences
- Computational Biology
- Environmental sciences
- GeoSciences
- Physical sciences
- Physics
- Remote sensing
- Superconducting magnets
- Toxicology
- Transportation Technology
- Robotics and Energetic Machines
- Sensor and Instrument Research
- Separations and Materials Research
- Strategic planning
- Structural ceramics
- Systems Engineering and Analysis (was Nuclear Safety and Operations)
- Thermal Hydraulics and Irradiation Engineering
- Thin Films and Microstructures
- Transportation Policy and Planning
- U-233 Projects
- Water cleanup/purification
- Radiation effects
- Radiation Transport and Physics
- Radiochemical Development Facility
- Radiochemical Engineering Development Center
- Radiochemical Process and Facility Design
- Radiochemistry
- Radioisotope Development and Processing
- Real-Time Systems
- REDC Operations and Cell Processing
- REDC Product Development and Cf Program
- Residential Buildings
- RF and Microwave Systems
- Risk Analysis
- Web technologies
- Environmental Assessment
- Environmental Chemistry
- Administrative computing
- Advanced Lasers, Optics, and Diagnostics Technology
- Advanced Nuclear Measurements and Control
- Advanced Reactors and Fuels
- Analog and Digital Systems
- Biogeochemistry
- Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Biophysics and Biomedical Technologies
- Building Envelope
- Building Equipment
- Capturing reusable by-products
- Ceramics and Interfaces
- Cleaning coal of impurities
- Commercial Buildings
- Complex biological systems
- Computational Sciences and Engineering
- Computer Science and Mathematics
- Computing and computational sciences
- Condensed Matter Sciences
- Cooling, Heating, and Power
- Creative information technology
- Economics
- Ecosystem studies
- Electronic diagnostic equipment
- Energy and Engineering Sciences
- Engineering Sciences and Technology
- Environmental biotechnology
- Experimental device development
- Fossil fuel energy production
- Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research
- Functional genomics and proteomics
- Fusion Energy
- Geochemistry
- High power lasers
- High power, high frequency radiosources
- High speed computing
- High-temperature design
- Hydrology
- Image Science and Machine Vision
- Industrial Energy Efficiency
- Inorganic Membrane Technology
- Isotope Development
- Mammalian Genetics and Genomics
- Materials chemistry
- Matter at the atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear level
- Metals and Ceramics
- Microbial sciences (Microbial tecology)
- Modeling and simulation research
- Monolithic Systems Development
- Natural gas exploration
- Networking and Computing Technologies
- Neutron Scattering
- Nonproliferation and Arms Control Assessments
- Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction
- Nuclear Analysis Methods and Applications
- Nuclear Data and Information Analysis
- Nuclear Research Support
- Nuclear Science and Technology
- Particle-Surface Interactions
- Solid State Theory
- Policy analysis
- Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research
- Process Engineering Research
- Pulp and paper manufacturing
