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New cybersecurity tool suite demonstrated this week

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new suite of cybersecurity software tools is being demonstrated at Idaho National Lab this week. The tools will help the electric utility industry protect their control system networks from cyber attack.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Idaho researcher building used nuclear fuel sensor

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Much of the 6,200 metric tons of used nuclear fuel generated by US power plants over the last 40 years is stored safely in giant stainless steel casks. Darryl Butt, a Boise State University professor, is part of a team researching whether it can be stored that way for at least 60 more.

Using equations to mine nuclear energy resources

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

INL research scientist Peter Zalupski is taking a modern approach to nuclear fuel recycling.

Reliable nuclear device to heat, power Mars Science Lab

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source. The rover Curiosity's scientific instruments will get their lifeblood from a radioisotope power system assembled and tested at Idaho National Laboratory.

INL wind researchers test cool way to stretch capacity of existing power lines

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Some Idaho National Laboratory wind power researchers think we can move more electricity through the transmission lines we already have without breaking the bank.

Students design mission to Mars at Idaho Science and Aerospace Scholars academy

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Designing a 500-day manned mission to Mars may sound like science fiction, but 44 high school students did just that as part of the first Idaho Science and Aerospace Scholars academy this summer in Boise.

New INL invention could aid Mars probes' search for life

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The next generation of Mars rovers could have smaller, cheaper, more robust and more sensitive life-detecting instruments, thanks to a new invention by scientists at Idaho National Laboratory. The team's Total Ion Control method is an advance in mass spectrometry that will make it easier to direct ions along specified paths. Equipment based on TIC could make the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer -- part of the 2018 ExoMars mission -- a better life-detecting tool.

INL helps students, researchers study wind energy

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

The wind turbines spinning outside Idaho schools are generating more than electricity.

Probing life's extremes in Yellowstone

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Frank Roberto trawls Yellowstone's thermal pools for viruses and microbes. On a recent trip to the park, he hunted for bacteria that could aid in the production of biofuels and bioplastics.

Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: American Nuclear Society Meeting

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