PNNL has named atmospheric scientist Larry Berg director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility, where he will oversee a global network of atmospheric research observations.
Mechanical engineer Scott Whalen is named the Department of Energy’s Innovator of the Year for turning the patented metal extrusion invention ShAPE™ into an industrially relevant extruded metal product juggernaut.
A newly published custom collection of glass formulas for nuclear waste vitrification — developed and validated by PNNL over the past three years — was made possible in that timeframe with AI tools, including a PNNL machine learning model.