Showing 10 results for Researcher: Laetitia H. Delmau
August 4, 2026
6 MIN READ
ORNL has developed a new californium-252 processing method that reduces separation time by about a week while maintaining the same quality. As the only producer of californium-252 in the western world, ORNL is also increasing production to meet growing demand for the isotope.
July 10, 2026
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Addison Malone, a recent graduate of the Christian Academy of Knoxville's homestudy program, has been named the 2026 UT-Battelle Scholarship recipient. She will attend the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this fall to study chemistry, building on her STEM achievements and ORNL internship experience with plans to pursue a career in nuclear forensics.
June 6, 2024
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Lætitia H. Delmau, a distinguished researcher and radiochemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2024 Glenn T. Seaborg Actinide Separations Award.
June 6, 2024
6 MIN READ
Lætitia H. Delmau, a distinguished researcher and radiochemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the prestigious 2024 Glenn T. Seaborg Actinide Separations Award.
May 22, 2024
8 MIN READ
Scientists have uncovered the properties of a rare earth element that was first discovered 80 years ago at the very same laboratory, opening a new pathway for the exploration of elements critical in modern technology, from medicine to space travel.
January 2, 2024
6 MIN READ
The 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications, Oct. 23-26 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton West in Knoxville, attracted 109 researchers, including some from Austria and the Czech Republic. Besides attending many technical sessions, they had the opportunity to tour the Graphite Reactor, High Flux Isotope Reactor and both supercomputers at ORNL.
February 13, 2023
6 MIN READ
With larger, purer shipments on a more frequent basis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is moving closer to routine production of promethium-147. That’s thanks in part to the application of some specific research performed a decade ago for a completely different project.
September 6, 2022
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Researchers at ORNL explored radium’s chemistry to advance cancer treatments using ionizing radiation.
March 10, 2021
5 MIN READ
A new method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory proves one effort’s trash is another’s valuable isotope. One of the byproducts of the lab’s national plutonium-238 production program is promethium-147, a rare isotope used in nuclear batteries and to measure the thickness of materials.
October 17, 2018
1 MIN READ
The clusters are assembled through steric and electrostatic forces, with the chloride anions (green spheres) residing in equidistant ‘clefts’ between coordinating diglycolamide ligands in positions that satisfy both repulsive and attractive ion-ion