OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: New and advanced nuclear reactor technologies including small modular reactors, or SMRs and their associated fuel cycles represent growing opportunities for scalable carbon-free energy production. But their novel designs, new fuel types and forms, and unique operating environments pose distinct challenges for safeguards, the methods used to verify that nuclear materia  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Building teams, taking risks At ORNL, Fuhr spearheaded a national grid timing and cybersecurity initiative and helped build a close research relationship with innovative utility partner EPB of Chattanooga. At ORNL's Hardin Valley campus, Fuhr founded the Grid Operations and Analytics Laboratory, or GOAL, with a 10-gigabyte-per-second direct fiber optic link to EPB fo  more