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PNNL receives national safety award

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized as one of America's Safest Companies as featured in Occupational Hazards magazine's November 2006 issue. Each year, the honor is given to a group of companies that demonstrate their management-supported safety processes, involvement from staff and innovative solutions to safety challenges.

Energy insecurity -- a weapon of mass disruption?

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

For years we've all heard the statistics -- and warnings -- about U.S. imports of oil and natural gas, for example, and our dependence on foreign sources. At a panel discussion today, energy and national security experts will discuss this and other related topics, including how geopolitics of energy security may require "kid gloves" diplomacy to get what we need.

Meeting: 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting

Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as "Google of the brain." The atlas now has a companion or the brain’s working molecules, a sort of pop-up book of the proteins, or proteome map, that those genes express.

Journal: Genome Research
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

$1M grant supports soil science for mitigating greenhouse gases

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A one-year, $1 million dollar grant awarded by the Robertson Foundation continues the work of a national group of researchers and educators from nine universities and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) who are committed to developing innovative and practical solutions for enhancing the role of agricultural soils in climate change mitigation.

Funder: Robertson Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Environmental Protection Agency

Radiation degrades nuclear waste-containing materials faster than expected

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Minerals intended to entrap nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years may be susceptible to structural breakdown within 1,400 years, a team from the University of Cambridge and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reported today (January 11) in the journal Nature.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Britain's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Russian capabilities benefit the hydrogen economy

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Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has brokered a cooperative partnership between a US firm, a Russian Institute and its scientists for commercialization of a miniature hydrogen gas sensor with improved reliability and response time. Such a device will provide added safety, detection capability and efficiency to a variety of applications industry-wide.

Funder: US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Award

Mileage from megawatts

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study finds that "off-peak" electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of the country's 220 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics. This is the first review of what the impacts would be of very high market penetrations of PHEVs. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory also evaluated the impact of PHEVs, on foreign oil imports, the environment, electric utilities and the consumer.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

PNNL introduces savvy new information tool

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has a new Web site that offers a vast array of information, both relevant and easy to access. Paired with Google search technology, the site is highly visible and provides unencumbered avenues to information on PNNL science and technology and their applications.

Nuclear energy and the 21st century

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The world is entering a period of renewed interest and growth in nuclear energy, driven by rising oil prices, growing demand for electricity, new passively safe plant designs, and low emissions of greenhouse gases, which some governments need to meet Kyoto Protocol standards. The Kyoto Protocol assigns mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations.

PNNL's building sciences -- From concept to commercialization

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Department of Energy has a new vision for residential and commercial buildings in the United States -- net-zero energy buildings that will produce as much energy as they consume.

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