Argonne has developed a revolutionary process that in one step converts spent commercial nuclear fuel, which is a ceramic oxide, into metal. The product can then be treated with Argonne's electrorefining technology to recover the uranium and transuranic elements for recycling into new fuel. Argonne chemist Laurel Barnes prepares for a test of the metal-oxide conversion process in a glove box.
High school students in Illinois compete each year to build the wackiest and most complicated machine to perform an assigned task. The event is the Rube Goldberg Contest, sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory.
Researchers at Argonne are probing the very edges of nuclear stability - and beyond - with the aid of a 12-ton gamma-ray 'microscope' called Gammasphere. A $20 million national traveling physics instrument, Gammasphere was built to study the complex structure and behavior of nuclei by fusing lighter nuclei into heavier ones and observing gamma rays.
Argonne has developed TuffCell, a solid-oxide fuel cell to be used as an auxiliary power unit. Chemical engineer Joong-Myeon Bae works with a TuffCell sample.
Argonne biologists Yong Zhao (left) and Eliezer Huberman found a new source of pluripotent stem cells — the versatile stem cells that can morph into any type of cells. Common sources of these flexible stem cells such as bone marrow and embryonic cells can be hard to collect and controversial, making Argonne's finding a possible boon to patients and researchers.

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