IDREAM EFRC
The Ion Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials (IDREAM) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) is a PNNL-led partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Utah, and the University of Washington.
This interdisciplinary team is exploring complex chemical phenomena to enable innovations in retrieving and processing highly radioactive waste and resolving knowledge gaps that have perplexed industrial aluminum process chemists for more than a century.

The IDREAM EFRC aims to reveal how attosecond responses to radiolysis ripple across complex ion networks. The multi-institutional team’s research objectives are synchronized across three spatiotemporal regimes, interweaving theory and experiment to span the extraordinary range of scales required for the treatment of Hanford Site radioactive tank waste.
(Illustration by Nathan Johnson | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)