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Water Travels Chaotically Through The Ground

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, hydrogeologists are using chaos theory to model how water flows from the earth's surface to the aquifer. Understanding this process is crucial for protecting the aquifer from waterborne radioactive and organic contaminants. LBNL and INEEL scientists uncovered chaotic dynamics at the "clean up" scale, which takes place "one barrel at a time."

Funder: Department of Energy, Enviromental Management Science Program
Meeting: American Geophysical Union

Hurricane Chasers Look For Turbulent Times

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Teams of researchers from universities and the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory chased hurricanes this last season to determine the structure of hurricane winds. The data will be used to reconstruct hurricanes at a national natural disaster test facility in the Idaho desert.

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

First-Of-Its-Kind Scale Windstorm Center At INEEL Turns On Its Fans

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Engineers at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory have constructed a 1/14 scale model of a hurricane simulator. The Scale Windstorm Center creates hurricane-like winds for testing the hurricane-resistance of small-scale items. It is a pilot for the full-scale HomeSaver facility planned for 2003, which will be able to test 2-story houses.

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

Subterranean Mapping Method Will Find Homes For Pollution-Eating Bacteria

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Mapping the underground abundance of iron oxide -- rust -- that provides the ideal home for pollution-eating bacteria is vital to harness bacteria to clean up chemical and radioactive contaminants. DOE awarded scientists at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory a bioremediation grant to develop a chemical tracer technique to derive detailed information about subterranean iron oxide.

Funder: Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Program (DOE)

Seeing Through Steel: INEEL Developed Technology Identifies Chemical Weapons

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

INEEL researchers have developed a portable system that identifies chemical weapons inside warheads -- without opening the projectiles up. They recently evaluated rusty, World War II-era U.S. warheads uncovered in the Solomon Islands. The projectiles contained mustard gas, and can be safely destroyed in a chemical weapons incinerator.

Funder: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

INEEL And WSU Researchers Coax Bacteria To Clean Up Toxic Chromium

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A team of researchers has tricked the bacteria from contaminated soil into cleaning up the toxic heavy metal chromium. A DOE bioremediation grant will fund the study of how bacteria commandeer enzymes that may normally reduce nitrate to reduce toxic chromium instead.

Funder: Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) (DOE)

Envisioning Ions With INEEL-Developed Simulation

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A program written by Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory scientist Dave Dahl is helping solve mysteries from this side of the Solar System to its far reaches. Three instruments now hurtling toward Saturn aboard the spacecraft Cassini will analyze cosmit dust and the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

Funder: Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory

Workshop Focuses On Finding Scientific Answers To Difficult Nuclear Waste Cleanup Questions

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy is looking for scientific breakthroughs to help lower costs and speed up cleanup. As part of that ongoing effort, the Department is joining with the American Chemical Society to host the first annual Environmental Management Science Program Workshop in Chicago July 27-30.

Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory has been honored with three R&D 100 awards from R&D Magazine. The three technologies are "Electro-Optic High Voltage Sensor," a small, nonelectric sensor for measuring electricity, "Rapid Solidification Process (RSP) Tooling," a thermal metal spray technology that reduces cost and time in producing industrial tooling, and "Malt-based Antimicrobial," a major breakthrough in pesticide research.

Funder: R&D Magazine

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