Forging the future of nuclear power: INL team assembles microreactor prototype
INL has successfully fabricated a full-scale, electrically heated prototype for the Department of Energy’s Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) project in just nine months.
Small businesses prove instrumental in building nuclear research flagship facility
The Sample Preparation Laboratory is currently the biggest Idaho National Laboratory (INL) project supported by small businesses.
Garbage changing the game? How municipal waste is becoming a bioenergy champion
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) bioenergy researcher Rebecca Brown is leading new research that supports the Department of Energy’s efforts to decontaminate municipal solid waste, specifically for use as biofuels.
Former Pocatello National Guard Armory serves first responders again
Idaho State University’s Disaster Response Complex sees emergency responders from across the country come to train for emergency readiness.
A decade in the making, Idaho researchers unveil enhanced electric power grid test bed
Idaho National Laboratory researchers have created one of the nation’s most comprehensive electric power grid test beds.
It’s in the water
INL systems modeling researcher suggest that lithium from U.S. geothermal plants could meet up to 8% of the world’s demand.
Security researchers discover abundant, cost-effective way to make new cancer medicine
INL researchers used a novel technique using high energy photons to produce scandium-47 from the element vanadium, a major breakthrough in cancer treatments.
Five INL innovations that are changing the world
Idaho National Laboratory researchers are focused on innovations that are changing the world.
College of Eastern Idaho designated as cyber Center of Academic Excellence with INL support
Idaho National Laboratory worked directly with College of Eastern Idaho (CEI) to secure the local college’s robust standing among state educational leaders.
Hurricanes are no match for INL scientist’s big dreams for a global nuclear future
INL employee Charlyne Smith, a native of St. Catherine, Jamaica, grew up with constant power outages, particularly during hurricane season. This fueled her desire to pursue a career that would help provide a sustainable infrastructure to prevent others from experiencing the hardships that she endured.
