UT is partnering with Roane State Communicty College and TCAT to provide students with nuclear technology training to create a skilled workforce.

PhD student Katie Butler served as the finance chair for the International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology hosted by ORNL, making the event a success.

Khalid Hattar is part of two Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awards of more than $2M that focus on plasma-facing surface relationships for fusion energy systems.

CROET has given two scholarships to our department to be awarded to undergraduate students that have graduated from Oak Ridge High School.

Associate Professor and the Pietro F. Pasqua Faculty Fellow Ilja Popovs has been elected a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

Vald Sobes, Amanda Bachmann, Lane Carasik, Tyler Steiner, and Fan Zhang have been named to the second annual Nuclear News “40 Under 40” list.

The Enabling Capabilities in Technology Consortium recruited over 60 grad students and postdocs to be trained in disciplines related to nuclear nonproliferation.

Partnering with Stony Brook University, Nick Brown found using reactor waste as microreactor fuel reduces long-term waste storage while reducing energy costs.

Livia Casali was been honored by the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) with the Katherine E. Weimer Award.

PhD student Alyssa Hayes was selected by the American Nuclear Society as the recipient of its 2025 Social Responsibility in the Nuclear Community Award.