DOE Pulse - Research Highlights

Ashok Gadgil's Physics in Service to the World

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:15:01 EDT

Ashok Gadgil, Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, already knew he wanted to be a scientist when he was nine years old.

Fuel for fusion: Innovations support US ITER systems

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:15:01 EDT

The Fusion Pellet Fueling Lab at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been at the center of design and testing of plasma fueling systems for tokamak research applications for decades.

SRNL research paves way for portable power systems

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:15:01 EDT

Developments by hydrogen researchers at DOE's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) are paving the way for the successful development of' portable power systems with capacities that far exceed the best batteries available today.' SRNL's advances in the use of alane, a lightweight material for storing hydrogen, may be the key that unlocks the development of portable fuel cell systems that meet the needs for both military and commercial portable power applications.

Weather deserves medal for clean air during 2008 Olympics

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:15:01 EDT

New research suggests that China's impressive feat of cutting Beijing's pollution up to 50 percent for the 2008 Summer Olympics had some help from Mother Nature.

Key atom could be secret behind nitrogenase

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:15:01 EDT

If we could make plant food from nitrogen the way nature does, we'd have a much greener method for manufacturing fertilizer ' a process that requires such high temperatures and pressures that it consumes about 1.5 percent of the world's energy.

New material 'removes radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:15:01 EDT

Research by a team of' chemists at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste.

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