The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is a U.S. Department of Energy institute headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 at the 2000 census...

 focusing on scientific initiatives to research health risks from occupational hazards, assess environmental cleanup, respond to radiation

Radiation

In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...

 medical emergencies, support national security

National security

National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...

 and emergency preparedness, and educate the next generation of scientists. ORISE is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Oak Ridge Associated Universities is a consortium of American and British universities headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with an office in Washington, D.C., and staff at several other locations across the country.- History :...

(ORAU).