Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review

Cool place with tons of history just a little difficult to get in... Haha

Finding a day that the public can visit the lab, typically around the secret city festival, is worth the effort. You are still about to tour the X-10 reactor that was used to produce the fuel for the nuclear weapons little boy and fat man during the Manhattan Project. The old graphite reactor is a major piece of history, that altered the course of warfare.

Word class research, development, and technology facility. This place is one of a kind.

Top notch facilities and some of the brightest researchers

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haha seriously though, an amazing campus, amazing work being done here in a variety of different fields, and it's a shame that there's not more funding to give.

Only accessible by pre-approved security pass. Friendly visitor center staff. Large facility. The Secret City is expanding.

Great place for cutting edge science, especially with the upcoming Nanotechnology, Neutron, Supercomputing and MDF facilities.

Pretty amazing place if you ever get a chance to get on site, even without the tours. Some of the best scientists on the planet are there

I am a summer intern here with the computer science and math department, and I'm having an amazing experience.
I keep on meeting brilliant people day in and day out. Besides, the place has an amazing history, the tours of this place are a different level.

Some of my favourite nuclear physics discoveries were made here. Would definitely come back.

This is a top secret facility and was a top secret visit. I can't say much more. The only thing I can tell you is that Uber/Lyft drivers are not allowed in. Only taxi cabs. And it is over a mile walk from the security gate to the visitor's center.

Luckily, we knew about this ahead of time so we took a cab and got dropped off where we needed to be.

Awesome facility and staff - just keep it hush-hush (top secret).

Amazing collection of neutrons. Highly recommend this as your main neutron source.

Nice to work with. The pond is also a good place to walk around and relax after long hours of working.

Nice, quite place. Make people calm down and focus on things they want to do.

One of my favorite places to visit. So many talented individuals work there. ORNL is very special.

Working there as a contractor is fun not sure I would do it as an employee

Great place for research. Outstanding research and support people.

This place is super cool! I got to visit here on my boy scout trip with troop 30! I'd like to say thank you to those at Oak Ridge who let us come and see the more classified parts. The HFIR is a super interesting reactor and the people there are very nice and tell you interesting things. Make sure to ask about the blue water if you go

Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand Covid-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but the process which involved analyzing 2.5 billion genetic combinations still took more than a week.

When Summit was done, researchers analyzed the results. It was, in the words of Dr. Daniel Jacobson, lead researcher and chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak Ridge, a eureka moment. The computer had revealed a new theory about how Covid-19 impacts the body: the bradykinin hypothesis. The hypothesis provides a model that explains many aspects of Covid-19, including some of its most bizarre symptoms

DO NOT OPEN THE PORTAL! YOU GUYS WILL REGRET IT! NOOOO! WATCH STARNGER THINGS

Top neutron facilities in the nation in addition to diverse cutting edge science divisions. No access to the general public.

I did a science tour it was very informational our guide was very witty and knowledgeable

I have mixed feeling about the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, they may well have one of the worlds supercomputers but there is no credit paid to the British that helped make this a reality. The truth is the Chinees are coming up fast with some incredible computing power, we need to do more and pull the minds of the western world to make this work!

I visited the National Laboratory with my University. Specifically, I toured the Supercomputing facility and MDF. Loved it! Would totally recommend to any University students looking to expand their horizons.

Note: not publicly accessible without a tour or other prior arrangement. Great place to work, plenty of awesome people!

Part of the Manhattan project, this reactor is beautifully preserved historical artifact. A bit out of the beaten visitors track, but absolutely a must to visit if you are in the region.

Very smart people in a campus environment, providing world class innovation and support to its customers. Home of the world's fastest supercomputer

One if the most amazing places I have ever been to! World changing science and research goes on here every single day! It was an honor to be able to tour this superb place!

Beautiful campus and great people. Love the diversity!

This is NOT the museum. RESTRICTED AREA. You will be stopped at the guard house, be photographed, have your license checked/photocopied, and have your car/car tag photographed if you drop by here. Guard is friendly but curt, and you will quickly realize you shouldn't have let Google Maps lead you here.

ORNL treats its employees like disposable garbage for the benefit of the narrow insider elite clique feasting on the labor of temporary workers paid mostly by the Government. After the Manhattan Project there has not been one important thing that this institution created over the decades of bilion $$$$ funding. Besides the tons of worthless papers and fake science, that is. Their modus operandi is to hire outsiders (university professors , postdocs and students) to perform the proposed work for a fraction of grant money while taking a lion share of the money for themselves as grant winners and project managers. And they need a lot of money because ORNL takes roughly one half million dollars of external funding per year to employ one staff member. Obviously, they have to farm out the actual work to cheaper labor. The ORNL big shots don t experiment, don t compute, don t write the papers, but just manage, invent overarching goals and put together proposals using contributions written by others, who hope to be potential beneficiaries of the proposal. Usually, after the funding is awarded, those university laborers contribute to the ORNL project what they have been doing anyway under their own funding (double dipping) with minimal variations. As a rule, the ORNL big shot grant managers don t even comprehend most of the work done in their project and need a lot of coaching to present their results.
Never in the history of humankind so little was achieved for so much money as at ORNL.

You need a badge to enter the facility, so not accessible to general public. Great place to work. People are very helpful and nice. Security consciousness is also high...expectedly.

Some of the best scientists and engineers on the planet are here

We had our business meeting there. The local staff were great. Treated everyone outstanding.

A place for great research and collaboration! Cutting edge facilities and technology.

ORNL is a national laboratory that contributes to many research areas. Environmental impact, computer science, energy efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear and geological sciences are only a short list of contributions that ORNL makes to furthering scientific advancement in the USA.

What a great National lab. It has lots of top notch facilities.