A Hub of Innovation
Oak Ridge is a bustling community where brilliant minds are leading the way to the technological innovations that will shape our future.
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Strategically Located
Central To Key Markets
THAT’S BUSINESS READY
Oak Ridge has become an international success story since the Department of Energy’s reindustrialization program was launched in 1996. The Oak Ridge community is currently experiencing a surge of housing and retail growth that’s bringing its in-town livability in line with the same level of excellence its businesses have long enjoyed.
Oak Ridge saw 308% growth in housing units permitted in 2022
5 new major retail businesses announced in 2022
Oak Ridge IDB reported over $28M in capital investments and 179 jobs created in 2021 by PILOT-recipient tech companies
A Cultural Oasis Wrapped in Gorgeous Greenspace
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And An Amazing Workforce
Professional, Scientific & Technical Services is Oak Ridge's #1 Industry
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Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupations are +4.7x the average makeup of jobs (datausa.com)
1,135 PHDs working in Oak Ridge.
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Oak Ridge Schools were 2nd in the world to become Advanced STEM certified.
With Big News to Share
- ORNL Invention Alert: March 2025
- Thermal energy confinement time of spherical tokamak plasmas in PI3
- From Single Shot to Structure: End-to-End Network-Based Deflectometry for Specular Free-Form Surface Reconstruction
- Measurement of spherical tokamak plasma compression in a PCS-16 magnetized target fusion experiment
- Peer-reviewed publication confirms General Fusion achieved plasma energy confinement time required for its LM26 large-scale fusion machine
- 185 | Transformer Transition | Hitachi Energy
- General Fusion’s Made-in-Canada Technology Achieves First Plasma in Cutting Edge Fusion Demonstration Machine
- Changes to Federal Administrative Charge for non-DOE funded projects
- 184 | Demand Dynamics | Energy Exemplar
- ORNL Invention Alert: From Innovation to Industry
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