Achievements
Recent Highlights
Date | News |
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Feb 4, 2013 8:00 AM | Engaging
America’s experts: Argonne’s program to support the IAEA How the lab’s International Programs helps researchers from abroad and makes U.S. expertise available to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Article by Allison M. Holiski, published in the January 2013 issue of Nuclear News, Copyright © 2013 by the American Nuclear Society :: Read PDF article» |
Jan 31, 2013 8:00 AM | ANS Chicago Local Section welcomes Dr. Mark Peters On the evening of January 16, the Chicago local section of the American Nuclear Society welcomed Mark Peters, deputy director for programs at Argonne National Laboratory. :: Read full story» — ANS “Nuclear Cafe” |
Jan 29, 2013 8:00 AM | CP-1: the Past, Present & Future of Nuclear Energy Watch the video recording of this event… :: Watch video» |
Jan 15, 2013 8:00 AM | The
Pro-Nukes Environmental Movement Article by Keith Kloor from Slate… :: Full Story» — Slate |
Dec 12, 2012 8:00 AM | Out from the shadows: Argonne’s quest to demystify nuclear energy Article by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory from Medill Reports including interviews and a wrap-up of the recent public lecture on nuclear energy held at Argonne… :: Full Story» — Medill Reports |
Dec 02, 2012 8:00 AM | The
Dawn of the Nuclear Age Argonne commemorates 70th anniversary of first man-made nuclear chain reaction… :: Full Story» — Argonne News Release :: CP-1 Anniversary :: Watch CBS News Video “Almanac: A nuclear landmark” — CBS News (Dec. 2, 2012) :: Almanac: The 1st self-sustained nuclear reaction — CBS News article (Dec. 2, 2012) :: A Weekend of Nuclear History — ANS Nuclear Cafe Blog (Dec. 2, 2012) :: Atomic Show: – 70th Anniversary of CP-1, the First Controlled Fission Chain Reaction — Listen to the podcast of the experts round table moderated by Rod Adams (Dec. 2, 2012) :: How the Atomic Age Began at UChicago — University of Chicago video (Dec. 10, 2012) :: How the first chain reaction changed science — University of Chicago News article (Dec. 10, 2012) |
Nov 20, 2012 8:00 AM | SHARP
could slash nuclear reactor design costs Researchers are using some of the world’s most powerful computers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to take a leap forward in nuclear reactor design, analysis and engineering… :: Full Story» — Argonne News Release :: Multi-physics Reactor Performance and Safety Simulations |
Nov 19, 2012 8:00 AM | Argonne Hosts G8 Nuclear Safety and Security Group On October 17-18, Argonne National Laboratory hosted a G8 Nuclear Safety and Security Group (NSSG) meeting to discuss nuclear safety culture, new domestic nuclear construction projects, and other topics that could impact nuclear energy safety and security… :: Full Story» — Argonne EESA News Release |
Nov 19, 2012 8:00 AM | Faibish appointed Fellow to Senate Committee Ron Faibish, principal nuclear engineer at Argonne, has been appointed the new Science Fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources… :: Full Story» — Argonne EESA News Release |
Recent Awards
- Young Member Excellence Award
by ANS
to E. Merzari - Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award
by ANS
to D.W. Pointer
Recent Patents
- Surface acoustic wave probe implant for predicting epileptic seizures
N. Gopalsami, S. Kulikov, I. Osorio, A.C. Raptis, U.S. Patent 8,165,682 (Apr. 2012) - High-temperature potentiometric oxygen sensor with internal reference
J.L. Routbort, D. Singh, P.K. Dutta, R. Ramasamy, J.V. Spirig, S. Akbar, U.S. Patent 8,057,652 (Nov. 2011) - Compact electrochemical bifunctional NOx/O2 sensors with internal reference for high
temperature applications
D. Singh, J. Routbort, P. Dutta, J.V. Spirig, and J. Chan Yang, U.S. Patent 8,012,323 (Sep. 2011)
Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory
- Since
the first day of its existence, Argonne has been at the forefront of nuclear energy research & development.
Most of the reactors designed by Argonne National Laboratory were
also built and operated at Argonne facilities...
Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy
- Learn more
about Argonne's Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy from this series of short articles
and historical news releases...
Argonne’s Nuclear Science & Technology Legacy
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