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A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel. INL has won a competitive research grant that could help nuclear fuel be recycled or used for longer periods of time to produce more energy. The INL team in Idaho will collaborate with scientists at the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System user facility in Illinois.

Researchers from Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory, led by INL's Giuseppe Palmiotti, won a competitive grant from the US Department of Energy's Office of Science. The researchers will use the money to develop more accurate, and more universally applicable, nuclear reactor simulations. As a result, engineers should be able to design better, more efficient reactors down the road.

Two new research teams have been selected to perform experiments with the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory. The NSUF program grants university-led scientific groups free access to the ATR -- one of the world's premier research reactors -- and other resources at INL and affiliated institutions

INL has partnered with Baard Energy to design one of the nation's first coal-to-liquids plants, a project that could help power the US transportation system without relying on foreign oil.

Minuscule traces of cells can be detected in a mineral likely present on Mars, researchers report in the current online issue of the peer-reviewed Geomicrobiology Journal. The results, obtained using a technique developed at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, could help mission scientists choose Martian surface samples with the most promise for yielding signs of life.

As cancers go, glioblastoma multiforme is just about as bad as it gets.

Science doesn't happen overnight, and Idaho National Laboratory Fellow Dave Petti knows that better than many. His research has required a long-term commitment from him and his colleagues -- one that is starting to pay off as the products of their work are breaking barriers and receiving national consideration.

A team of scientists from the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory earlier this month reached a major milestone with the successful production of hydrogen through High-Temperature Electrolysis. The milestone was reached when the Integrated Laboratory Scale experiment started producing hydrogen at a rate of 5.6 cubic meters per hour. The achievement was announced in Idaho Falls Sept. 18. "This is by far the biggest achievement we've had," said Carl Stoots, the experiment's principal investigator.

Research proven to safely detect hidden nuclear materials smuggled into ports and across borders has earned the 2008 $25,000 Homeland Security Award sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and AgustaWestland North America Inc.

Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the Idaho National Laboratory, is the first step toward a solar energy collector that could be mass-produced on flexible materials, say the researchers, who report their findings Aug. 13 at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2008 2nd International Conference on Energy Sustainability in Jacksonville, Fla.