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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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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.

Mechanical engineer Michelle Fenn helped design custom single-use ventilator ports using additive manufacturing techniques

Rapid Prototyping Laboratories

From 3-D computer-aided design to 3-D printing, these facilities house a multitude of advanced tools for solving advanced engineering problems.

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.

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Seattle Research Center

The PNNL Seattle Research Center is located in the heart of Seattle’s South Lake Union, alongside leading top tech companies, research institutions, and universities.

Shallow Underground Laboratory

Shallow Underground Laboratory

Advancing ultra-sensitive research and technologies for science, security and the environment

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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.

Systems Engineering Building

Systems Engineering Building

The Systems Engineering Building provides unique laboratory space and equipment to advance research in electricity markets, generation, transmission, distribution, and end use, including buildings-grid integration.

Arctic Research Lab

The Arctic Research Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL Thermal Energy Storage System

Thermal Energy Storage System

TESS makes ice and provides timely cooling to a building. This capability helps researchers identify new techniques for building efficiency, grid reliability, and transactive and clean energy.

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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Virtual Event Studios

PNNL’s Programmatic Events Office supports a wide variety of event and logistical needs—whether virtual or in person—by managing two full-service, on-site production studios.

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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.