Ushering new technologies to the marketplace

INL won funds for three projects that total nearly $1 million through DOE’s Practices to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies Laboratory Call.
INL Pro Force captain earns prestigious award

The Colonel Sydnor Memorial Award recognizes an outstanding participant in the Composite Adversary Team program each year and was awarded to Jeremy White.
To Pluto and Beyond: Work that reaches the stars

Three INL employees have spent most of their careers in the Space and Security Power Systems group, helping develop and test technology for use in space.
INL intern looks at the big and small pictures of cybersecurity

For INL intern Lydia Speirs, formerly Lydia Greco, investigating cybersecurity issues has shown small- and large-scale implications.
American Nuclear Society lauds its Idaho student chapter

The University of Idaho ANS chapter has received a second-place Samuel J. Glasstone Award for public service and its efforts to advance nuclear engineering.
Frontiers Media honors biomass feedstock research

Research compiled and edited by biomass researchers at INL and the University of Tennessee was among 10 finalists for the 2019 Frontiers Spotlight Award.
Preparing for launch: INL’s space power systems team supports the Mars 2020 launch

INL’s space power systems team spends months in Florida working with NASA and other groups supporting the launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover.
Keeping kids engaged with STEM

Idaho National Laboratory offers advice on keeping kids engaged at home with fun STEM activities.
Making sense of electrical grid big data

A team from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is discovering how big data can be used to make smart electric utility grids more efficient, safe and reliable.
National labs lend expertise to overhaul circulatory system of the American West

DOE’s Water Power Technologies Office has teamed up with the Oregon-based Farmers Conservation Alliance to overhaul the circulatory systems in the West.
Encouraging young Edisons: Invention Convention gets support from Idaho National Laboratory

This was INL’s first year supporting the Invention Convention, supplying not only financial support but judges for the regional competition.
FAST collects detailed data on vast federal vehicle fleet

The Federal Automotive Statistical Tool (FAST) is a data-reporting system that collects information on the U.S. government’s nearly 650,000 vehicles.
Nuclear MythBusting: Using social media to set the record straight

It pays to get out in front of any misconceptions that might exist about nuclear. This is why INL began a YouTube series called “Nuclear MythBusting.”
Quest to improve battery performance leads to discovery of rare glassy metal

Scientists from Idaho National Laboratory and University of California San Diego discovered a noncrystalline “glassy” lithium metal.
Lab Directors Town Hall

Join us on Wednesday, July 15 for a virtual town hall session for interns across the national lab complex, including a Q&A with four lab directors.
One year after historic Sheep Fire, Idaho Site contractors, agencies eye coming fire season

As summer nears and Idaho National Laboratory prepares for fire season, the Sheep Fire of 2019 is still fresh in everyone’s collective memory.
Preparations for INL’s 2020 fire season underway

With summer 2020 at hand, INL’s Fire Department is making preparations. Fire is a fact of life on the Snake River Plain, the land on which INL sits.
INL researcher selected for DOE Early Career Research Program

INL researcher Dr. Paul Humrickhouse has been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program.
inl is Advancing global security technology

INL’s explosives test range and Radiological Response Training Range enable testing and training that benefit the nation’s soldiers and first-responders.
INL played a leading role in the nation’s largest federally owned wind project

Kurt Myers and his Idaho National Laboratory (INL) team provide full-scale wind power systems engineering and development support within the federal system.