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EM is set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental cleanup at the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) have redesigned an office building to support cleanup activities as they prepare to begin the teardown of the former Main Plant Process Building, an EM 2022 priority.

EM recently installed equipment at the Savannah River Site (SRS) that ensures continued safe shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for disposal.

Crews at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) have completed the first test to demonstrate that liquids can safely run through and between facilities that will support vitrification.

The breakthrough using common material could pave way for new quantum technologies.

The grant provides funds to build and evaluate novel semiconductor detectors with high- energy physics, medical imaging, and security applications.

The researchers showed that conventional theories regarding interfacial heat transfer are not complete; the inclusion of phonon modes is warranted.

Part of the virus mimics a protein made in the brain and spinal cord, leading the immune system to mistakenly attack the body’s nerve cells.

Argonne scientists Bogdan Nicolae & Michael E. Papka will join Illinois Tech’s Department of Computer Science as research professors this spring.