PNNL

Glenn Fugate joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2021 and is a chemist supporting the National Security Directorate. He has led research efforts to support advancing the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear nonproliferation, and nuclear safeguards in areas including environmental fate and transport, collector design, separations chemistry, analytical methods development, and material properties.

Before joining PNNL, Fugate was a researcher for the Department of Environmental Engineering and Sciences at Clemson University and the Department of Chemistry at Washington State University. He then went on to work in the nonproliferation technology section of Savannah River National Laboratory for nine years, followed by six years as a senior staff member of the Process Engineering Research group and leader of the Uranium Process Chemistry group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

• Analytical Methods Development
• Destructive Testing
• Nondestructive Testing
• Radiochemical Separations
• Radiochemistry
• Uranium

• PhD in chemistry, Florida State University
• BS in chemistry, Tennessee Technological University

• Chair of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society, 2019
• Chair of the Awards Committee, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society
• Adjunct Faculty, Clemson University
• Senior Member, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, 2023

• Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2019
• Team member receiving the Nonproliferation and Arms Control, National Nuclear Security Administration’s Joule Award, for contributions to the In-field Alpha Spectrometer for Uranium Verification to the International Atomic Energy Agency, 2022

• Cadieux, King, and Fugate. Filed February 2013. “System and method for the assaying of a radionuclide.” US13558464.

2023

• Chichester, D.L, Johnson, J.T., Pope, T.R., Fugate, G.A., Hix, J.D., Siefert, R.D., Thompson, S.J. In-field alpha spectrometry system for uranium enrichment verification of uranium hexafluoride, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A (2023), doi: ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168311.

2021

• Greaney, A.T.; Peruski, K, Richards, J.M.; Smith, S.K.; Venkataraman, R.; Fugate, G.A. Thermal impacts on nondestructive analysis measurements of uranium hexafluoride. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2021, 330, (1), 357-365.
• Hubbard, J.A.; Cheng, M.-D.; Cheung, L.; Kirsch, J.R.; Richards, J.R.; Fugate, G.A. UO₂F₂ Particulate Formation in an Impinging Jet Gas Reactor, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2021, 6, 1428.

2020

• Greaney, A.T.; Smith, S.K.; Venkataraman, R.; Richards, J.M.; Rael, C.D; Swinhoe, M.T.; Vo, D.T.; Jeffcoat, R.D.; Fugate, G.A., Heterogeneity effects on nondestructive assay measurements of enrichment in UF₆ cylinders, ESARDA Bulletin, 2020, (61), 2-9.
• Richards, J.M., Martin, L.R.; Fugate, G.A.; Cheng, M.-D. Kinetic investigation of the hydrolysis of uranium hexafluoride gas, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 34729-34731.
• Cheng, M.-D.; Richards, J.M.; Omana, M.A.; Hubbard, J.A.; Fugate, G.A. Experimental and Computational Study of Particle Formation Kinetics in UF₆ Hydrolysis, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2020, 5, 1708-1718.