Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multidisciplinary science and technology national laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Within the space industry, ORNL supports NASA in areas like nuclear thermal propulsion by developing testbeds that simulate extreme space conditions to qualify materials, such as those used in nuclear fuels. They also collaborate with companies like Sierra Space to develop advanced thermal protection systems for spacecraft and with IBM and NASA to develop AI models for weather and climate prediction using Earth observation data. ORNL's work contributes to more efficient space travel, improved spacecraft safety, and better climate forecasting.
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Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory hold institutional expertise in reactor physics, fuel fabrication, and safety analysis for space nuclear power.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory will contribute its fusion materials development program, extensive materials characterization tools, and its Manufacturing Demonstration Facility to the collaboration.
UT Battelle manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is working with Zeno Power Systems to recycle large quantities of strontium-90 from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator built in the mid-1980s at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that was never deployed.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory shipped 0.5 kg (a little over 0.4536 kg) of new heat source plutonium oxide to Los Alamos National Laboratory.