Facilities | PNNL

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.

CME

Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis

PNNL is the lead institution for the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis (CME), an EFRC that seeks to establish the fundamental principles needed for efficient interconversion of electrical energy and chemical bonds.

CSSAS

Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales

PNNL has partnered with University of Washington (UW) to co-lead the Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales, an EFRC based at UW.

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Energy Frontier Research Centers

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

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Energy Sciences Center

Scheduled for completion in 2021, a new Energy Sciences building will serve as a focal point for the synergistic research being conducted among PNNL scientists and academic partners

One of the robots in the High Throughput Center

High Throughput Center

At PNNL’s High Throughput Center, robots handle routine and repetitive small-scale laboratory tasks to improve the researchers’ labor landscape—and productivity.

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.

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.

Researcher hold tube extruded by the ShAPE machine

Solid Phase Processing Demonstration Facility

PNNL’s Solid Phase Processing Demonstration Facility includes Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE™), friction extrusion, friction stir welding, friction stir processing, and cold spray equipments for various SPP approaches.

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.