Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory. ORNL was established in 1943 as a part of the secret Manhattan Project to pioneer a method for producing and separating plutonium. Today, ORNL has six major research areas: neutron
science, energy, high-performance computing, systems biology, materials science at the nanoscale, and national security.

ORNL is completing a $350 million project to provide a modern campus for the next generation of great science. A unique combination of federal, state, and private funds is supporting the construction of 13 new facilities, including the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, the Leadership Computing Facility, and the joint institutes for computational sciences,
biological sciences, and neutron sciences.

To find out more about ORNL, take a look at our website at http://www.ornl.gov.