The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation awarded Georgia Tech and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville consortia cooperative agreements in which Savannah River National Laboratory will collaborate. The two new NA-22 University Consortia awards will run for five years with a combined total budget of $50 million. The consortia cooperative agreements will support…
Savannah River National Laboratory and Clemson University recently established two new joint appointments, including SRNL’s first outgoing joint appointment. Jake Amoroso, a glass and ceramic scientist at SRNL, will soon be on the Clemson University campus as SRNL’s first outgoing joint appointment. Until this arrangement, SRNL’s Joint Appointment Program paired university faculty with SRNL resources…
Savannah River National Laboratory will receive $1.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the Creating Hardened And Durable fusion first Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK) program, which aims to explore promising alloy design space and manufacturing processes to develop next generation materials…
SRNL is partnering with the University of Georgia’s Research Institute Scholars’ Program to initiate an inaugural mentorship program for students within its Center for International Trade and Security. Lauren Jackson, deputy program manager for the Export Control Review, Compliance, and Interdiction program at SRNL, will serve as the collaborating scientist and mentor UGA graduate student…
Through the International Nonproliferation Export Control Program, staff at the Savannah River National Laboratory trained customs professionals in Italy on best practices in combating the export of items that have potential usage in weapons of mass destruction. Principal National Security Analyst James Davis and former INECP Principal Investigator Pam McKinsey led the three-day course titled…
Savannah River National Laboratory utilizes a variety of techniques in a key area of research known as materials optimization. This research involves understanding numerous characteristics of specific materials to know how they function best to utilize them for additional applications. However, SRNL researchers faced challenges in advancing their materials optimization research due to equipment limitations….
The 2024 Laboratory Directed Research and Development Most Valuable Project goes to Joseph Mannion and his team for their work on “Comprehensive Chemical Fingerprinting by Multidimensional GC and Supervised Machine Learning.” By leveraging advances in modern machine-learning-based data analysis strategies and untargeted analytical methods for organic analysis, Mannion and his team helped to advance SRNL’s…
Savannah River National Laboratory’s (SRNL) Wearable Robotics Team travelled to the Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site in Washington to demonstrate and market wearable safety devices. Representatives from several other national laboratories were also on hand. Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), headquarters for the DOE-wide wearable robotics collaboration, is conducting a study of the efficacy and…
Technological innovation is a cornerstone of the Environmental Management (EM) mission at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). SRNL researchers dedicated to enhancing and advancing EM’s scientific processes are critical to progressing this mission. Members of the SRNL OLI Mixed-solvent electrolyte team turned a technological challenge into a collaboration opportunity benefiting not only SRNL, but an…
Many of the projects at Savannah River Site (SRS) require specialized packaging to transport and store radioactive and other hazardous materials. Regardless of whether a team is working on a defense, nonproliferation, or material storage project, Savannah River National Laboratory’s (SRNL) Packaging Technology Group is likely to have a hand in ensuring the material is…
Savannah River Laboratory (SRL) was created in the early 1950s to support the scientific missions at the Savannah River Plant (SRP). The lab was a semi-independent organization on SRP but was run by the DuPont company, which designed, built and operated the entire plant. DuPont vigorously instilled a culture of worker safety before the first…
Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) marked a significant milestone Wednesday, June 5, by hosting an orientation for the largest group of summer interns in SRNL’s history. The orientation for more than 80 interns from 31 different universities kicked off with inspiring words from senior leadership and followed with an engaging agenda aimed at setting the…