National Laboratories - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Energy and Transportation Science Division
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 rogram into areas of energy production, transmission, and conservation. The laboratory's six major mission roles include neutron science, energy, high-performance computing, systems biology, materials science at the nanoscale, and national security. ORNL is in the final stages of a $300 million project to provide a modern campus for the next generation of great science. A unique combination of federal, state and private funds is building 13 new facilities. Included in these new facilities will be the Laboratory for Comparative and Functional Genomics, the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, and the joint institutes for computational sciences, biological sciences, and neutron sciences. ORNL has been selected as the site of the Office of Science's National Leadership Computing Facility for unclassified high-performance computing.
for information on ORNL visit: http://www.ornl.gov/