The molten glass pictured here is 11 times hotter than boiling water. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory mix the heated silica sand and chemicals with radioactive waste, a process called vitrification. Once the mixture cools, it can …
A nuclear engineer at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been named a fellow of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Steve Short is one of 14 professional engineers from across the country selected for the …
A catalysis researcher at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been elected to the rank of fellow in the American Vacuum Society. Zdenek Dohnálek was recognized for his contributions toward understanding the elementary …
Two organizations dedicated to energy efficiency in buildings have named the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory the government winner of their annual sustainability award. PNNL is being honored with the International Code …
Columbia Basin Consulting Group, based in Kennewick, Wash., is developing a lead bismuth-cooled fast reactor concept. With new funding from the Department of Energy, they will draw on nearby Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's extensive experience …
An energy efficiency researcher at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been invited to participate in the annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The symposium brings together outstanding early-career engineers …
Every year, the journal Chemical Communications, published by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry, singles out up-and-coming researchers as "emerging investigators" for the contributions these early career scientists have already …
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is part of a nationwide effort to learn more about the role of proteins in cancer biology and to use that information to benefit cancer patients. PNNL is paired with physicians and …
Like driving a car despite a glowing check-engine light, large buildings often chug along without maintenance being performed on the building controls designed to keep them running smoothly. And sometimes those controls aren't used to their full …
For most prematurely born infants, it's not their tiny size itself that makes life a struggle. Rather, it's the development of their lungs that spells the difference between life and death In a bid to learn more about the lungs to help such …
Supercomputers help design automobiles and aircraft, create new medical drugs and discover the mysteries of the universe. Now, in a column for the Tri-City Herald, the director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Steve Ashby, introduces a new …
Far above the cattle pastures and wheat fields of north-central Oklahoma, weather systems born of different regions — Canada, the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico — clash mightily. It's the perfect place to set up sophisticated atmospheric …
U.S. energy production could increase with the help of an improved carbon capture technology that use about half the energy of today's standard technologies. Emissions captured at fossil fuel power plants could in turn be used to harvest more crude by …
Scientists have improved our ability to interpret one of the most common measures of the temperature of Earth's oceans in the distant past. The measurement is based on the ancient remains of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, a type of plankton …
A giant, inflatable structure designed to prevent flooding in subways was rolled out, literally, for media observers inside a full-scale, mock subway tunnel. As the video shows, in under five minutes it is nearly filled with pressurized air — creating a …
Gerald "Jerry" Posakony, a longtime researcher for the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, passed away May 27, 2017, at the age of 92. Over the course of a career that included more than 40 years at PNNL, Posakony…
A Washington state company that produces a battery based on technology developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been honored with a Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
Scientists are taking their cues from fungi in the digestive tracts of cows, goats and sheep in the search for new ways to create sustainable fuels and medicines. It turns out that fungal enzymes in herbivores play well together, teaming up to form …
In the quest for longer-lasting lithium rechargeable batteries, some researchers are looking to use sulfur as electrodes. The chemistry of lithium-sulfur, in theory, could allow electric vehicles to go twice as far as conventional batteries. But, in …
Garry Buchko and his colleagues are at the front line battling some of the most fearsome enemies that humanity has ever known: Tuberculosis. Pneumonia. Ebola. Plague. Botulism. But he is not in a hospital or field tent, taking vital signs or administering …
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