Showing 10 results for Researcher: Tyler L. Spano
July 10, 2026
3 MIN READ
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.
July 2, 2026
5 MIN READ
Tyler Spano’s impact on the field of mineralogy is anything but small. So, when a newly discovered mineral, modest in size but significant in meaning, was named spanoite in her honor, it became a fitting tribute to her contributions to the field.
April 7, 2026
5 MIN READ
Scientists at ORNL used Raman spectroscopy to analyze uranium oxide samples derived from uranium ore concentrates. Although traditional methods showed the samples were structurally similar, the technique revealed molecular-level differences after high-temperature processing. The findings suggest Raman spectroscopy can help identify variations among uranium materials.
February 3, 2026
7 MIN READ
Researchers at ORNL are breathing new life into the scientific understanding of neptunium, a unique, radioactive, metallic element — and a key precursor for production of the plutonium-238 that fuels exploratory spacecraft. The team’s research arrives during a period of increased national interest in the use of Pu-238 in radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
February 26, 2025
3 MIN READ
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and other institutions created a Machine Learning (ML) library for the training of classifiers on spectrographic chemical data.
September 26, 2024
7 MIN READ
Combining two techniques, analytical chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory became the first to detect fluorine and different isotopes of uranium in a single particle at the same time.
June 26, 2024
3 MIN READ
Despite strong regulations and robust international safeguards, authorities routinely interdict nuclear materials outside of regulatory control. Researchers at ORNL are exploring a new method that would give authorities the ability to analyze intercepted nuclear material and determine where it originated.
April 2, 2024
4 MIN READ
Nuclear nonproliferation scientists at ORNL have published the Compendium of Uranium Raman and Infrared Experimental Spectra, a public database and analysis of structure-spectral relationships for uranium minerals. This first-of-its-kind dataset and corresponding analysis fill a key gap in the existing body of knowledge for mineralogists and actinide scientists.
January 11, 2023
4 MIN READ
The word “exotic” may not spark thoughts of uranium, but Tyler Spano’s investigations of exotic phases of uranium are bringing new knowledge to the nuclear nonproliferation industry.
May 5, 2022
6 MIN READ
ORNL researchers used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to map the molecular vibrations of an important but little-studied uranium compound produced during the nuclear fuel cycle for results that could lead to a cleaner, safer world.