2010‐11 Sam Nunn Fellows Visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
and GE – Energy’s Global Strategy and Planning Office
(18‐19 October 2010)
On October 18-19, 2010 the Sam Nunn Fellows participated in a two day field trip that involved
visits to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and GE – Energy’s Global Strategy and
Planning office. The day-long ORNL visit involved a range of briefings and tours including
briefings from the Associate Laboratory Director of the new Nuclear Science and Engineering
Directorate and the Directors of the Global Nuclear Security Technology Division and the
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, and tours of the Safeguards Lab, the
Surveillance Lab, EVEREST (a large scale data visualization facility), and the supercomputing
facility of the National Center for Computational Sciences. The Fellows were given insight into
the range of research activities carried out at ORNL from basic science to national security
applications.
At GE Energy, the Fellows heard from the unit responsible for analyzing global economic,
political, and regulatory trends to provide advisement about what products General Electric
should be developing, and which countries it should increase its efforts to gain market share in,
with respect to the company’s energy infrastructure product lines.