23-Mar-2022 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
9-Mar-2022 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.
8-Mar-2022 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.
18-Feb-2022 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.
14-Feb-2022 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
2-Feb-2022 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.
31-Jan-2022 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.
12-Jan-2022 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
10-Jan-2022 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
14-Dec-2021 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