Oak Ridge National Laboratory

🇺🇸 Oak Ridge, US · Active

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a US Department of Energy national laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, founded in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project around the X-10 Graphite Reactor, which produced plutonium. It is managed by UT-Battelle, a partnership of the University of Tennessee and the Battelle Memorial Institute. Its fission history includes the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment, which ran from 1966 to 1969, and it operates the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the Spallation Neutron Source. In fusion, its ORMAK tokamak began operating in 1971, and with Princeton and Los Alamos it was one of three US laboratories that contributed to Germany's Wendelstein 7-X stellarator. It also hosts Frontier, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers.