b'2000 2015 2017Universal Solvent Extraction Irradiated Materials Resumption of Transient TestingIdaho researchers helped develop theCharacterization LaboratoryAfter more than two decades in standby UNEX process for simultaneous separationIMCL incorporated many featuresmode, the Transient Reactor Test Facility was of cesium, strontium and actinides indesigned to allow researchers to safelyrestarted on Nov. 15, 2017, and completed its acidic high-activity tank waste. conduct microstructural-level first transient two months later. investigations on irradiated fuel. 2004Space and Security Power Systems 2014Idaho became home to assembling Commercial Small Modular Reactor and testing radioisotope thermoelectricThe Carbon Free Power Project called for generators for NASA deep-spacebuilding an SMR power plant on the INL missions. Site using NuScale Powers technology.2005 2011 2020Lead Nuclear Energy Laboratory Accident Tolerant Fuel DOME and LOTUS Test BedsIdaho and Argonne-West researchAfter the tsunami-caused FukushimaThe Demonstration of Microreactor activities were combined to create todaysdisaster, INL accelerated work on fuels thatExperiments Test Bed was conceived to host INL, which was named DOEs lead lab forcould withstand extreme conditions formicroreactors with thermal power ratings nuclear energy R&D. longer periods of time without failing. of up to 20 MW. Nearby, the Laboratory for Operation and Testing in the U.S. began a transformation to provide a home for the 2006 2008 Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment.TRISO Fuel Testing Multiphysics Object-Oriented2026Idaho resurrected research into Simulation EnvironmentMARVELtri-structural isotropic fuel, INL researchers began developing MOOSEThe Microreactor Applications Research a specialized fuel on a foundation of existing computerValidation and Evaluation project is aintended for high-code and numerical libraries. sodium-potassium-cooled microreactor that temperature gas will generate 85 kilowatts of thermal energy. reactors.It will be installed in TREAT, with plans for it to go into operation in 2026.'