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  Argonne’s advanced reactor technology featured in movie —Argonne’s nuclear science and technology legacy and future come to the big screen in June through “Pandora’s Promise”… Read full story »

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  Fuel Cycle R&D Subcommittee Chair —Al Sattelberger, Associate Laboratory Director, appointed as chair for the Fuel Cycle R&D Subcommittee of the DOE's Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee… Read full story »

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  2013 Mo-99 Topical Meeting — Argonne National Laboratory recently organized the 2013 Molybdenum-99 Topical Meeting (April 1-4, 2013) in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting was sponsored by the United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative… Read full story »

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  French Connection — Nuclear experts from across the Atlantic have reached out to U.S. Department of Energy engineers for help evaluating a new reactor design that could increase safety margins while reducing waste… Read full story »

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  Johnston, Warner receive award for Argonne’s VAT — 2013 CSO40 Award from CSO (Chief Security Officer) Magazine for outstanding business value and security thought leadership in their work with Argonne’s Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT)… Read full story »

Departments

• Engineering Analysis
  Development and application of new and innovative analysis methods for both nuclear and non-nuclear systems
• Nuclear Systems Analysis
  Reactor & Fuel Cycle Analysis, Simulation and Methods, Applied Physics & Nuclear Data, and Criticality Safety
• Research & Test Reactor
  Development of technology necessary to enable the conversion of civilian facilities using high enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuels and targets
• Nonproliferation and National Security
  Limiting risk of nuclear weapons proliferation through export control policy support, safeguarding of special nuclear materials in the Former Soviet Union, development of information management systems
• Detection & Diagnostic Systems
  R&D related to instruments and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques for characterization of materials and determination of system parameters related to different energy systems (including fossil, transportation, and nuclear). The Department also develops sensors and technologies for non-energy-producing applications such as homeland security and biomedical engineering
• Engineering Development and Applications
  Corrosion & Mechanics of Materials, Irradiation Performance, Engineering Development Labs, and Engineering Projects

Educational

NE's Educational Website

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  Nuclear Energy Resources for Home and School - Our Nuclear Energy Experts help you to find accurate and up-to-date information on nuclear energy related topics. For students and educators.

Fukushima Update

“Fukushima and Chernobyl: Myth versus Reality”

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  Want to bypass the popular press myths and gain a true understanding of the radiation releases at Fukushima? In “Fukushima and Chernobyl: Myth versus Reality”, leading experts from several international organizations, including the United Nations, discuss the facts.
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Spotlight

Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory

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  Argonne developed and/or built experiments, research reactors, or prototypes of every kind of commercial nuclear reactor in the world today, as well as many research and training reactors. An overview of this history is now online.

Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy

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  Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy: a series of short articles and historical news releases covering Argonne's nuclear energy legacy from the first nuclear reactor to the present.

MMSNF 2013, Chicago, Illinois, USA
(Oct. 14-16, 2013)

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  We are pleased to announce that the Materials Modeling and Simulation for Nuclear Fuels (MMSNF) 2013 workshop will be held 14-16 October 2013 in Chicago, Illinois USA. The workshop will be jointly hosted by Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago.
  Online registration for this workshop is now open. Deadline for submitting abstracts for this workshop is May 31, 2013. For more information about the workshop: MMSNF 2013

RERTR-2013, Chicago, Illinois, USA
(Oct. 27-30, 2013)

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  The U.S. Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Global Threat Reduction will host the “RERTR 2013 International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors.” The meeting is being organized by Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory and will be held in Chicago, IL USA from October 27-30, 2013… Details

Other Recent News/Highlights

In nuclear power, a better way? Here's why. — Argonne nuclear engineer Roger Blomquist was interviewed about the IFR by the Minnesota Star Tribune…Read article »

Employee Spotlight: Emily Wolters — Emily Wolters is an Argonne nuclear engineer working to support, maintain and develop Argonne's neutronics tools — the computational tools used to simulate the physics inside a nuclear reactor…Read interview »

Materials Modeling and Simulation for Nuclear Fuels (MMSNF) 2013 — The goal of MMSNF workshops is to stimulate research and discussions on modeling and simulations of nuclear fuels, to assist the design of improved fuels and the evaluation of fuel performance. This year the workshop will be held in Chicago (Oct. 14-16, 2013). Online registration for this workshop is now open. Deadline for submitting abstracts for this workshop is May 31, 2013. Register now » and submit your abstract »…

Illinois leading the way in nuclear — Article by Rep. Adam Kinzinger posted on The Hill blog…
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Argonne staff members elected to American Nuclear Society governance positions — Several Argonne staff members were elected to offices in the American Nuclear Society governance during the recent 2013 national election…
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