Size Matters for Speeding Up Nuclear Waste Cleanup
This PNNL-developed separation system quickly and successfully separates larger particles from smaller ones at various scales, in different solid-liquid mixtures and at different flow rates.
Waste Management Symposia 2025 Recognizes PNNL Research
PNNL researchers continue to deliver high-quality, high-impact research on radioactive waste and nuclear materials management, earning “Papers of Note” and “Superior Paper” awards.
Locking Contamination in Place
PNNL partners with SRNL, FIU, and industry to test fixative technologies that could be used to immobilize radioactive contaminants on the surface of building materials during the deactivation and decommissioning of DOE legacy facilities.
Wildfire Risk & Resilience
RemPlex Seminar: Enhanced Natural Attenuation: Pathways to Sustainable Remediation
This seminar explored enhanced attenuation (EA) technologies and approaches, their associated resource demands and impacts, and methodologies for evaluating and comparing the environmental footprint of different remediation approaches.
PermitAI Public-Private Partnership Speeds Environmental Review Drafting Tasks
Coding agents repurposed to draft complex environmental impact statement sections through PermitAI public-private partnership model.
The Nuclear Materials Check-Up
PNNL’s nondestructive evaluation capabilities support advancements in nuclear energy, including research for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to preserve the nation’s existing nuclear fleet.
VICTOR
The Vitrification Off-gas Rig (VICTOR) is an engineering-scale melter and off-gas test platform at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, supporting Hanford Site waste processing operations and other thermal treatment processing facilities.