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INEEL creates a method to link energy use, greenhouse gases

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first step to reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is to determine how much is being produced by human activities. Engineers at the INEEL are developing a computer model to convert energy usage and the unique characteristics of an institution, such as energy efficient buildings, into a value for greenhouse gas production.

Funder: US Department of Energy Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Meeting: Third Annual Dixy Lee Ray Symposium

The ultimate pocket protector--radiation detection made easy

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory has created a dosimeter capable of simultaneously detecting two types of radiation-bundles of massless energy called gamma rays and tiny particles called neutrons. The dosimeter has been recognized as one of the 100 most significant technological achievements for the year 2000 by R&D Magazine.

Funder: R&D Magazine

Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy recently announced grants to remove excess atmospheric carbon dioxide and store it out of harm's way. Researchers at the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, in collaboration with universities and other national laboratories, have been awarded almost $1.4 million to pursue projects that pull carbon dioxide out of smokestack exhaust and natural gas production lines.

Funder: Department of Energy

Adding acetone to compost remediates chunk TNT contaminated soil

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Like the Wicked Witch of the West, another danger can be melted away, only this time it's with a bucket of fingernail polish remover. Modifying a standard composting recipe, microbiologists at the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory successfully degraded chunks of TNT from TNT-contaminated soil. The report is appearing in this week's quarterly issue of Bioremediation Journal.

Journal: Bioremediation Journal
Funder: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

INEEL microbiologist joins Japanese on expedition to tap marine-methane deposits

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory is pursuing the secrets of the methanogens -- microorganisms that produce methane-by analyzing samples obtained during the recent MITI Research Hole coring expedition at the Nankai Trough, off the coast of Japan. The expedition was sponsored by the Japanese Petroleum Exploration Company.

Funder: Department of Energy, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

A mixture of thorium and uranium may provide cheaper, cleaner, safer nuclear power

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers from DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory lead an eight-institution collaboration to develop a new fuel that promises to increase the time nuclear reactors can run between shutdowns while discouraging the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The institutions received a three-year, $3.3 million DOE Nuclear Energy Research Initiative grant to pursue the fuel's development.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy, Nuclear Energy Research Initiatives

Radiating relief: Researcher combats stubborn arthritis with neutrons

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In collaboration with the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory nuclear physicist David Nigg, physicist Jacquelyn Yanch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has devised a new way to kill the synovium, the lining that overgrows and ruins a joint afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis, using neutron capture radiation therapy.

Funder: Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Life in the inferno: researchers identify factors that determine where microorganisms can survive in the hellish world deep underground

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

High temperatures ensure nothing can survive more than a few kilometers down into the hellish world below the earth's surface. But pressure, the availability of water, and the flow of nutrients also limit where life can exist, researchers from the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Princeton University reported today at the American Geophysical Society meeting in San Francisco.

Funder: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, US Department of Energy
Meeting: American Geophysical Union Meeting

A little help from below: naturally occurring microbes ready to lend a hand trapping radioactivity underground

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Microbes living underground at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory breakdown the compound urea, which means they may be able to help trap a radioactive contaminant found in the groundwater beneath the lab, researchers from INEEL, Idaho State University, and the University of Toronto reported today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Funder: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental, US Department of Energy
Meeting: American Geophysical Union Meeting

EPA, INEEL, and Utah State University pursue watershed management

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To foster collaboration about water management, the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Utah State University have formalized a partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Science and Technology. The partners will collaborate on research over the next five years, planning ultimately to create an integrated computer-based decision support system and to promote collaborative stakeholder involvement.

Funder: Department of Energy, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

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