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Aquatic Research Laboratory

Specialized facilities are essential to the advancement of PNNL’s sponsored research programs and LDRD-funded projects.

Unique facilities at PNNL, including dedicated laboratories for power grid operations, marine sciences, data analytics, and atmospheric sciences, equip researchers to take on some of the most challenging questions, and expand the frontiers of scientific understanding and technological possibility.

In addition to more than two dozen state-of-the-art facilities supporting the laboratory’s missions in scientific discovery, energy resiliency, and national security, PNNL is the steward of two U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facilities, ARM and EMSL, serving more than 2,000 researchers worldwide each year.

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318 Building

Expertise in the 318 Building—the Radiological Exposures and Metrology (REM) Laboratory—supports health physics, radiation dosimetry, irradiation research design, Monte Carlo modeling, radiation biology, engineering, and radiography.

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Accelerated Real-Time Environmental Nodal Assessment (ARENA) Test Bed

Accelerated Real-Time Environmental Nodal Assessment (ARENA) test bed determines how electrical cables degrade in extreme environments and how their condition can be effectively monitored.

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Applied Process Engineering Laboratory

The Applied Process Engineering Laboratory (APEL) is a business startup center designed for innovators in engineering, manufacturing, and technology.

Different components of SIP column experiments are laid out on the tray with the electrical connection boxes in the background, major components include remedial amendments (small vials), sediments (bottles), column components, and electrodes (silver-silver chloride wires).

Applied Subsurface Science and Characterization Laboratory

State-of-the-art instrumentation and analytical techniques enable characterization of the critical properties of sediment and rock that control the subsurface movement and reactions of chemicals, water, and gases.

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Battery Reliability Test Laboratory

The Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL is a world class battery testing facility that has been established to accelerate the development of grid energy storage technologies that will help modernize the power grid.

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Computational and Applied Geophysical and Geomechanics Laboratory

The Computational and Applied Geophysical and Geomechanics Laboratory enables subsurface fluid dynamics modeling, stability prediction of perforation tunnels, simulation test design, fluid removal or injection monitoring, and more.

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Energy Frontier Research Centers

The Department of Energy has established a network of Energy Frontier Research Centers throughout the nation.

Grid Storage Launchpad at PNNL

The DOE’s Office of Electricity has selected PNNL as the site for a new, national grid energy storage research and development (R&D) facility to accelerate the development of the next generation of grid energy storage technologies.

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Oil Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

The Oil Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim measures physical and bulk-chemical properties of oil in water or ice.

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Organic Chemistry Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim is home to an organic chemistry laboratory.

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Radiological Microscopy Suite

The Radiological Microscopy Suite at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory provides highly sensitive instruments to examine and characterize radioactive materials.

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Rapid Prototyping Lab

The Rapid Prototyping Lab at PNNL is a makerspace, where a skilled team of engineers and technologists work in the lab, directly with clients, to design and produce relatively inexpensive prototype components for research projects.

Redox Flow Battery Laboratories

Redox Flow Battery Laboratories

PNNL has a series of three laboratories dedicated to researching, testing redox, and scaling up flow batteries—a battery type used primarily for power grid applications.

Trace Element and Chemical Speciation Laboratories at PNNL-Sequim

Analytical instrumentation is available at MCRL for the ultra-trace level determination of elements and chemical speciation in environmental samples.

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Wasteform Development Laboratory

Researchers in this lab investigate glass, glass-ceramic, grout, metal, and metal-ceramic wasteforms that will withstand corrosion over geologic time. This includes supporting the nation's nuclear waste vitrification efforts at Hanford.

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Wetland Research Sites at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim owns or has access to pristine coastal wetlands to conduct long-term research for terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric processes.