News By Location

News from ID

Select a state to view local articles and features

INEEL, universities collaborate on subsurface strontium-90 remediation efforts

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory are working on a way to sop up contaminating low-level radioactivity and immobilize it until the radioactivity is spent. They hope to use calcite mineral, which forms naturally in arid western environments, to take up strontium-90 and other divalent metals from subsurface water.

Funder: Department of Energy, Environment Management Science Program

INEEL researchers separate the good from the bad with durable, tailorable membranes

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory are creating durable membranes that can be specially tailored to separate different chemicals from water. A hybrid of organic and inorganic molecules, they are also stable at high temperatures and pHs organic membranes aren't.

Funder: Environmental Systems Research Institute, US Department of Energy, Environmental Management
Meeting: ACS 218th National Meeting

Microbial janitors tackle nuclear clean-up problems

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Microbial janitors are helping their human counterparts with nuclear clean-up. Researchers plan to coax naturally occuring microbes to clean radioactively contaminated walls and ceilings at a shut down reactor in the United Kingdom. The technology was developed by the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and partnership with British Nuclear Fuels, plc.

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

INEEL launches comprehensive vadose zone management program

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The U.S. Department of Energy/ Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory is leading the development of a comprehensive vadose zone program that will foster technically grounded decision-making throughout the DOE complex in the characterization, assessment and remediation of contaminated vadose zone sites. The vadose zone is the layer of soil between the surface of the ground and the aquifer that filters and chemically changes contaminants trickling down through the earth.

Funder: US Department of Energy/ Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Undiscovered Biological Diversity: A Symposium On Bioprospecting

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Microbiologists from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Portland State University have gathered a panel of experts who will speak on microbial diversity, the search for novel natural products, and the intimate relationship between bioprospecting and natural resource preservation during a symposium on bioprospecting at the 99th Annual ASM General Meeting.

Funder: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, US Department of Energy
Meeting: American Society for Microbiology

National Laboratory, National Parks And Forests Leaders Seek To Share Resources

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Under the umbrella of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, representatives from eight regional forests and national parks, and leaders from local communities, got acquainted with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory's resources by touring the national laboratory. The meeting cultivated the cooperative relationship between local government agencies that have to deal with similar issues.

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

Packing Away The Past: A Simulating Experience

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory have developed a software program to optimize the cutting and packaging of debris resulting from decontaminating and decommissioning work. The Decontamination, Decommissioning, and Remediation Optimal Planning System (DDROPS) is a program that simulates a facility for remediation preplanning and waste minimization purposes.

Funder: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, US Department of Energy
Meeting: American Nuclear Society

INEEL Researchers Plant Experimental Monitors Under Savannah River Site's Low-level Radioactive Waste

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory researchers set up a network of subsurface water monitoring probes at depths never before plumbed at the Savannah River Site, SC. Researchers will be tracking water and contaminants as they travel to the water table, and gaining an understanding of the mysteries of the vadose zone.

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

Gamma-Ray Spectrometry's Greatest Hits Available On CD

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To a nuclear physicist, a radioactive isotope has a rhythmic syncopation that produces a song as sweet as a Mozart concerto. Researchers from the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory will be presenting CD's containing the most comprehensive collection of gamma- ray spectra compiled to date at the Tenth International Conference on Modern Trends in Activation Analysis.

Funder: Department of Energy Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Natural Disaster Researchers Meet In Idaho For Second Annual Conference

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wind and earthquake researchers from across the U.S. gathered at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in late March to discuss natural disaster hazards mitigation. INEEL's Partnership for Natural Disaster Reduction program funds research on the forces behind natural disasters in order to design affordable, disaster-resistant housing.

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

24
25
26
27
28