Fuel Cycle Research
PNNL draws on a decade of innovation and experience in the nuclear fuel cycle. Scientists and engineers develop and evaluate new safer and economically improved fuels; improve methods for fuel fabrication; and evaluate alternative means of recycling, storing, and transporting spent nuclear fuel. Much of this work is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), in partnership with the nuclear industry and other national laboratories.
Dark Matter
Physicists are quite literally in the dark about most of the universe. There is more matter in the universe than we can see—nearly 5 times more.
High-Performance Computing
At PNNL, High-Performance Computing (HPC) encompasses multiple research areas with impact on both computer science and a broad array of domain sciences.
Water + Hydropower Planning
PNNL is developing modeling tools to predict and evaluate water characteristics like temperature and flow, impacting hydropower generation, flexibility, and operations.
Discovery and Insight
Researchers at PNNL drive innovation in cybersecurity research and application by identifying and leveraging novel human and computational analytical methods and tools to address hard cybersecurity challenges.
Trusted Systems
PNNL brings cybersecurity research and expertise to important national missions. Our cybersecurity experts continuously investigate, experiment, design, create, and review solutions focused on securing the engineering lifecycle of infrastructure technology.