Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy. Scientists and engineers at ORNL conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation's leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of affordable, reliable energy; and contribute to national security. ORNL also performs other work for the Department of Energy, including isotope production, information management, and technical program management, and provides research and technical assistance to other organizations.www.ornl.gov
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Nov 3, 2026
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, my dad, in addition, he was a scientist.
Steve StocktonHOST
He worked out at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Steve StocktonHOST
But he had some abilities too.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, he wasn't like my grandmother's side of the family, but he was what they call a water witch or a water dowser.
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Steve StocktonHOST
and became a scientist.
Steve StocktonHOST
He worked in metallurgy at the plant, so the uranium enrichment plant.
Steve StocktonHOST
So for somebody to come from hardcore Appalachia and then at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, you know, he'd seen some stuff.
Jatheda Cat GrayGUEST
I'm sure there's a lot of things he, you know, failed to mention.
Ed WolframMODERATOR
So
Nathan WeilandGUEST
with that, again, I reintroduced myself, but joining me today, Ed Wolfram from National Lab of the Rockies, Gary Grimm, also NLR, National Lab of the Rockies, Jordan Klinger, Dr. Jordan Klinger from INL, Dr. Jim Parks from Oak Ridge, and Dr. Meredith Chanum from NETL as well.
Nathan WeilandGUEST
We'll introduce them in turn as their technical task pieces come up.
Nathan WeilandGUEST
So I'm not going to read through this slide.
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Nathan WeilandGUEST
Task three looks at our upstream feedstock, our quality and pre-processing work.
Nathan WeilandGUEST
Again, led by Jordan Klinger at INL.
Nathan WeilandGUEST
Task four is feedstock variability or sensing control led by Jim Park at Oak Ridge.
Nathan WeilandGUEST
And then task five is pyrolysis and gasification kinetics and the machine learning tool that we're developing there, headed by Mirdad Chen.
Janet RehbergGUEST
And so they brought in some partnership.
Janet RehbergGUEST
They had Oak Ridge National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, Cubitech, a startup quantum company.
Janet RehbergGUEST
And of course, they're going to need a utility if it's going to be about the grid.
Janet RehbergGUEST
And so from our long-term relationship with the Department of Energy and our reputation in the industry, they gave us a call.
Bill TindalGUEST
You've got intellectual capital.
Bill TindalGUEST
that is in the area from Oak Ridge National Laboratory or a closeness to the University of Tennessee.
Bill TindalGUEST
You've got the investment from the state, and you've also got land that's available, many thanks to the decades of work that were done to clean up the old gaseous diffusion plant at East Tennessee Technology Park.
Bill TindalGUEST
That has paid off in huge ways to make land available for these new companies to come to the area and be successful.
Joris PeelsHOST
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Joris PeelsHOST
And Ryan is the director of the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Labs.
Joris PeelsHOST
And that is the premier United States research and collaborate with industry organization for additive manufacturing.
Joris PeelsHOST
And, uh, Ryan started, uh, at a, a postdoc at, uh, the Ohio state university, uh, became a research staff member at Oak Ridge.
Joris PeelsHOST
Uh, he worked on a laser engineer and net shaping, which is the lens process, which is a really trailblazing thing, which I think we should talk about a little bit about it.
Joris PeelsHOST
Uh, because that was a really amazing thing.
Joris PeelsHOST
And then later on he used, uh, uh, you know, other additive manufacturing technologies, uh, and, uh, other processing techniques, trying to get manufacturing under control, which we've seen, you know, we've had a couple of Oak Ridge people and we've seen just generally the idea is to demystify the process to take away this black box.
Joris PeelsHOST
And he started leading the metal additive manufacturing at Oak Ridge in 2012.
Sheila RonisGUEST
I was really fortunate because I met Dr. Deming in 1979 when he gave lectures to every new Bell executive who was hired, and especially young people who were in their high potential group.
Sheila RonisGUEST
And I came to Bell already having my doctorate and a major assignment with Oak Ridge and National Laboratory, before the Department of Energy even existed.
Sheila RonisGUEST
And it was really wonderful because it was very clear to me that the way he thought was very similar to the way I thought.
Sheila RonisGUEST
We were both educated as classical physicists.
Kathleen MardenGUEST
Okay.
Kathleen MardenGUEST
a schoolteacher who did all the star map investigation and then worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, nuclear laboratory in Tennessee, as a lab assistant for 20 years.
Kathleen MardenGUEST
So Marjorie was visiting Betty.
Kathleen MardenGUEST
And she was interested in what these non-humans looked like.
Steve StocktonHOST
And on your show, we talked about Operation Paperclip and how that was a real thing.
Steve StocktonHOST
Because my dad was a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, worked right alongside some of those guys.
Steve StocktonHOST
But yet people will try to debunk that and say it never happened and the government did that.
Steve StocktonHOST
But I think sometimes you have to debunk the debunkers, you know, that there are – Double agents out there and people, and I've noticed this, like, especially in the UFO community.
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Steve StocktonHOST
But everything can't be proven yet.
Steve StocktonHOST
There's things that we don't understand.
Steve StocktonHOST
My dad, like I said, he was a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Steve StocktonHOST
He would think about things that happened in the laboratory under extremely controlled conditions.
Juha VartiainenGUEST
It's like quite an actually exceptional development.
Grace GongHOST
i think that's so interesting to think about and you lead the iqm's government and policy engagement including like the nato's um transatlantic quantum community and so i guess like why do countries want to own their own quantum computers so obviously you know recently like there's like a few deals that's happening which is like Spain's first quantum computer with Telefonica in Maldred, and then the first US system in Oak Ridge National Lab and Brazil's El Dorado Institute.
Grace GongHOST
So there's quite a few things going on.
Grace GongHOST
So why do countries want to own their own quantum computers?
Tommy CrumpGUEST
So after my freshman year, I had an intern to pay for school.
Tommy CrumpGUEST
Well, Oak Ridge National Lab is about 20 minutes from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Tommy CrumpGUEST
That's where they made the atomic bomb.
Tommy CrumpGUEST
They had a lot of environmental waste.
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