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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.

318 Building

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.

ARENA Test Bed

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.

Connected Lighting Testbed

Connected Lighting Test Bed

The Connected Lighting Test Bed is a large warehouse filled with lights, cables, controllers, and computers where researchers can study connected lighting.

energy frontier research

Energy Frontier Research Centers

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

iDREAM

Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials

PNNL is the lead institution for Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials (IDREAM), an EFRC that seeks to master molecular-to-mesoscale chemical and physical phenomena at interfaces in complex environments.

Lighting Metrology Laboratory

Lighting Metrology Laboratory

The nationally accredited Lighting Metrology Laboratory enables evaluation of advanced lighting systems. The facility provides accurate testing of non-standard lighting products for comparison and application evaluation.

Lumen Maintenance Test Facility

Lumen Maintenance Test Facility

The Lumen Maintenance Test Facility was established to test next-generation lighting products. The facility has two automated light bulb test apparatuses that are able to test over 200 light bulbs each.

JEOLARM

Materials Science and Technology Building

At PNNL’s Materials Science and Technology Building, researchers identify and predict degradation of materials in extreme environments, such as components within nuclear power plants, before damage leads to failure.

GrandARM 28

Radiological Microscopy Suite

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

RPL_2

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.

Molten red-hot glass in a research lab

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.