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7-Sep-2022
Coal-dependent Kentucky considers nuclear with help of GAIN and an NCSU student
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Last year, Bill Gates was speaking at the Nuclear Energy Assembly’s virtual conference about his company’s plans to build an advanced reactor in Wyoming. Julian Colvin, a 22-year-old nuclear engineering student at North Carolina State University, was listening and posted a question in the chat: “I’m Julian. I go to NC State, and I wonder what a state like Kentucky could do to attract advanced nuclear projects?” Another attendee, Christine King, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) responded in the chat, asking Colvin to contact GAIN, which is based at Idaho National Laboratory.
31-Aug-2022
Helium’s chilling journey to cool a particle accelerator
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
En route to record-breaking X-rays, SLAC’s Cryogenic team built a helium-refrigeration plant that lowers the LCLS-II accelerator to superconducting temperatures.
31-Aug-2022
Center for Radiation Chemistry Research takes a forgotten science into the future
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho National Laboratory’s Center for Radiation Chemistry Research has developed a capability that supports the nuclear energy industry by researching radiation-induced effects in advanced reactors, fuels, coolants, materials and fuel recycling technologies while also training the next generation of radiation chemists.
31-Aug-2022
Soaking up the sun with artificial intelligence
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Scientists have developed a machine learning method capable screening tens of thousands of compounds as solar absorbers. They used this method to identify the best candidate materials for further investigation.
30-Aug-2022
Scientists grow lead-free solar material with a built-in switch
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A new solar material developed by Berkeley Lab scientists offers a simpler and more sustainable approach to solar cell manufacturing. The material’s lead-free formulation could also benefit the commercialization of perovskites, a promising solar material that requires much less energy to manufacture than silicon.
- Journal
- Science Advances
30-Aug-2022
Jennifer Choy: Engineering atomic antennas for quantum sensing
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Profile of Jennifer Choy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Q-NEXT. Choy develops technologies to improve quantum sensors.
29-Aug-2022
Vintage SLAC accelerator software spreads its wings
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Pioneering software called ACE3P was developed almost a quarter century ago to fine-tune the design of particle accelerators and their components. Now its latest incarnation is being adapted for scientific supercomputing and manufacturing design, thanks to partnerships between two companies and DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
29-Aug-2022
Print, recycle, repeat: Scientists demonstrate a biodegradable printed circuit
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Scientists have developed a fully recyclable and biodegradable printed circuit. The advance could divert wearable devices and other flexible electronics from landfill, and mitigate the health and environmental hazards posed by heavy metal waste.
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
29-Aug-2022
Garret Suen: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
DOE/US Department of Energy
Garret Suen is an associate professor of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, who is researching how herbivores use the microbes in their stomachs to break down cellulose into smaller molecules that can be converted into biofuels and bioproducts.