In the MSRE’s heyday: ORNL Director Alvin Weinberg (far left) and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg (pointing) were on hand in 1968, when the Molten Salt Reactor began operating with ...

Obsidian—volcanic glass—was a material of choice for prehistoric tool and weapon makers. Determining the age of the objects they left behind has always been a challenge for archaeologists. Several ...

Estimates Cooling and Heating Savings for Flat Roofs with Non-Black Surfaces ...

Adevs is a simulator for models described in terms of the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) 3.1 The key feature of models described in DEVS (and implemented with Adevs) is that their dynamic ...

Have heating and cooling effects been tested? At present, there is no standardized method for testing the effectiveness of radiant barriers in reducing heating and cooling bills. But numerous field ...

Methane hydrates, a promising natural gas resource, are believed to reside throughout the globe in sea-floor sediments and permafrost. Lorie Langley, who is leading ORNL’s Gas Hydrate program for the ...

Inaugurated in 1979, the "Buildings Conference" takes place every three years allowing time to develop new research and technology applications and to document the findings. Attendance is ...

Adding more insulation where you already have some, such as in an attic, will save energy. You can save even greater amounts of energy if you install insulation into ...

Estimates Energy and Peak Demand Savings for Flat Roofs with Non-Black Surfaces ...

Atomic models are the basic building blocks of a DEVS model. The behavior of an atomic model is described by its state transition functions (internal, external, and confluent), its output function, ...

so that values are accumulated at each step along the VMC walk. The integral over is performed by summing over a grid of uniform spacing whose origin is chosen randomly for each electron configuration ...

ORNL helped the Southwire Company set technological history February 18 when the cable manufacturing company energized an electrical power cable utilizing superconductivity. Secretary of Energy Bill ...