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Advanced Test Reactor overhaul complete

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Workers at Idaho National Laboratory’s Advanced Test Reactor have completed an 11-month outage for a core overhaul that occurs about every 10 years to maintain peak performance. During the overhaul, operators and maintenance teams replaced components that wear out over time — akin to rebuilding the engine of a high-performance car.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Idaho National Laboratory to drastically reduce carbon emissions

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Idaho National Laboratory continues its 70-year legacy of clean energy leadership today by committing to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2031.

Armor technology designed to protect the power grid licensed by Michigan company

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A 2013 sniper attack on an electric power substation in Northern California, which caused more than $15 million in damages and destroyed 17 transformers, led Idaho National Laboratory researchers to develop a novel protective solution. Now, the lab’s Armored Transformer Barrier system has been licensed for production by Michigan-based Waltonen Engineering, a full-service design and engineering company.

Cracking under pressure: What teeth can teach us about modern materials

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Idaho National Laboratory researchers are studying the rigid and resilient properties of dental enamel in hopes of using them to impact the energy and national security sectors.

Learning to improve chemical reactions with artificial intelligence

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

INL researchers working with the innovative Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) reactor system are trying to improve understanding of chemical reactions by studying the role of catalysts, which are components that can be added to a mixture of chemicals to alter the reaction process.

Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal

Battle-ready recycling: DARPA ReSource project enlists INL research team

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – DARPA – has enlisted Idaho National Laboratory to help create a mechanical system that soldiers can use to separate their garbage and turn it into everything they need to survive: food and water for their bodies, fuel and lubricants for their vehicles.

Forging the future of nuclear power: INL team assembles microreactor prototype

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Machinists at INL’s Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) have successfully fabricated a full-scale, electrically heated prototype for the Department of Energy’s Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) project in just nine months.

Idaho researchers unveil enhanced electric power grid test bed

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory have now energized and put into service one of the nation’s most comprehensive electric power grid test beds. The full-scale test grid allows experts from across the federal government and private industry to develop and demonstrate technologies that improve security and enhance resiliency.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

It’s in the water

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Electric vehicles are expected to be essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As more of them roll off production lines and onto roads, the world will need two things: more lithium, the key element in the batteries that power them, and carbon-free power to charge those batteries. A recent study conducted by INL researchers suggests that lithium from U.S. geothermal plants could meet up to 8% of the world’s demand.

Journal: Resources Conservation and Recycling

Security researchers discover abundant, cost-effective way to make new cancer medicine

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

By bombarding a natural vanadium target with high-energy photons, INL researchers created a pure, low-cost form of Scandium-47 which can be used to treat prostate, lung, intestinal and pancreatic cancers, among others.

Journal: Applied Radiation and Isotopes

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