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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

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

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