Maritime Security
PNNL is leveraging decades of expertise and advancing technologies to enhance maritime security at home and abroad through improving part security, enhancing situational awareness, and enabling novel sensing techniques in the maritime domain.
Waste Processing
What to do with Hanford’s 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste stored in 177 underground tanks, which already are past their expected lifetime? In partnership with DOE and site contractors, PNNL researchers are leading the development of the chemical and engineering processes to determine the mixture in each tank, the safest way to remove it, and the most efficient way to treat and store it.
Nuclear Forensics
PNNL is a critical provider of research, technology, and operations for the United States’ pre- and post-detonation nuclear forensics missions. We leverage more than 40 years of experience in radiochemistry, plutonium processing science, and nuclear material detection technologies.
Fossil Energy
At PNNL, we are reducing U.S. dependence on imported oil through innovations for increasingly efficient energy production from oil, natural gas, and coal. These carbon-emitting energy sources will continue to serve a crucial role in the global energy mix.
Advanced Hydrocarbon Conversion
PNNL develops advanced materials, catalysts, transformational processes, and integrated systems to capture or separate greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective manner and to efficiently convert fossil hydrocarbons to electricity, fuels, or chemicals.
Microbiome Science
PNNL’s microbiome science research deploys omics and synthetic biology to understand and manipulate the functional architecture of communal microorganisms.
Advanced Lighting
DOE’s Building Technologies Office, which manages the Solid-State Lighting Program, is focused on research to realize these tremendous additional energy savings, with the goal to cut U.S. lighting-related energy use by 75 percent by 2035, while improving lighting quality, functionality, and service. PNNL is supporting DOE’s mission through research that informs new lighting metrics and methods of measurement adopted by industry standards organizations such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American National Standards Institute, and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES).
Resilience and Security
PNNL experts integrate technology, policy, and people to help federal agencies enhance site resilience and cybersecurity.
Building-Grid Integration
PNNL develops new concepts and technologies that connect buildings and the power grid for a better energy future.