SRNL News Room: 2009 Archives
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Mo-Sci Corporation to Manufacture, Market SRNL's Unique Glass Microspheres
AIKEN, S.C. (December 17, 2009) – A licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corporation will make SRNL's unique Porous Walled Hollow Glass Microspheres available for use in targeted drug delivery, hydrogen storage and other uses, including applications still being developed. MORE »
SRNL Establishes Presence at Charleston's SeaHawk
AIKEN, S.C. (Nov. 17, 2009) – To support homeland security initiatives, the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory has established a permanent presence at the SeaHawk interagency operations center (IOC). SeaHawk was established by Congress in 2003 and located at the Port of Charleston (S.C.) as a collaborative initiative designed to bring multiple agencies together to enhance port security operations and coordination among federal, state and local agencies. MORE »
SRNL Joins SUNRISE Consortium to Provide Nuclear-Related Education and Training Programs
AIKEN, S.C. (Oct. 30, 2009) – The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, today signed a Memorandum of Agreement to become an active partner in activities with the Southeastern Universities Nuclear Reactors Institute for Science and Education, Inc. (SUNRISE). MORE »
SRNL Wins Share of $87 Million in Funding to Support Solar Energy
AIKEN, S.C. (October 12, 2009) – Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $87 million in funding to support solar energy technologies. Of local interest, a Savannah River National Laboratory project, led by Dr. Elise B. Fox in collaboration with SRNL researchers Ann Visser, Nick Bridges, and Josh Gray, was selected for one of these awards. MORE »
UCO Forensic Science Institute Partners with SRNL
AIKEN, S.C. (August 27, 2009) – University of Central Oklahoma students now have the opportunity to study and conduct research with some of the most highly regarded scientists in the country thanks to a new partnership between the university and the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in South Carolina. MORE »
SRNL, Automakers to Develop High-Performance Wireless Sensor Networks
AIKEN, S.C. (Aug. 25, 2009) – SRNL has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the United States Council for Automotive Research LLC (USCAR), the collaborative automotive technology organization for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation. The purpose of the collaboration is to develop a new platform for short range wireless sensors networks that meets the NNSA requirements, and can also be adopted as the industry standard. MORE »
Exide Technologies Announces New Collaborations to Advance Lead-Acid Battery Chemistry
MILTON, GA. (July 13, 2009) – Exide Technologies (NASDAQ: XIDE, www.exide.com), a global leader in stored electrical-energy solutions, announced today that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the University of Idaho to develop and commercialize improvements on lead-acid battery technology. MORE »
SRNL Researchers Demonstrate Reversible Generation of a High Capacity Hydrogen Storage Material
AIKEN, S.C. (July 6, 2009) – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have created a reversible route to generate aluminum hydride, a high capacity hydrogen storage material. This achievement is not only expected to accelerate the development of a whole class of storage materials, but also has far reaching applications in areas spanning energy technology and synthetic chemistry. MORE »
SRNL to Study Applicability of Solar Cell Coatings
AIKEN, S.C. (June 25, 2009) – A project under way at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory will study how special coatings that mimic structures found in nature can increase the usefulness of solar energy as a vital part of the nation's future energy strategy. MORE »
DOE's SRNL and DWPF Honored by the White House for Environmental Achievement
AIKEN, S.C. (June 17, 2009) – The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and its Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Site were honored by the White House for an innovative environmental initiative that reduces contaminated waste requiring disposal and eliminates the need for people to enter a high-radiation area of the waste processing facility. MORE »
Restoration Institute, SRNL Partner to Develop Bioenergy
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (March 17, 2009) – In a move that will advance development of alternative energy in South Carolina, the state's leading bioenergy researchers have teamed to study how South Carolina's agricultural resources can help reduce the state's and nation's dependence on fossil fuels. MORE »
Pittcon Symposium Explores Role of Analytical Chemistry in Advancing Hydrogen Energy
AIKEN, S.C. (March 3, 2009) – "Analytical Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Energy Frontier" will be the subject of an invited symposium at the 60th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon, March 8-13 at McCormick Place South, Chicago, Ill.). The symposium, organized by Dr. Amy Ekechukwu of the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory, will focus on analytical tools of the present and future to support fuel cell and hydrogen process development. MORE »
SRNL Research and Development Paves Way
AIKEN, S.C. (Jan. 29, 2009) – Long before the shovels broke ground for the Savannah River Site's Waste Solidification Building (WSB), work began on the research and development to define and test the waste product that the facility will produce. That's where the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory came in. MORE »
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