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JUNE 13, 2018
News Release

Seawater Yields First Grams of Yellowcake

For the first time, researchers have created a gram of yellowcake — a powdered form of uranium used to produce fuel for nuclear power production — using modified acrylic fibers to extract it from seawater.
OCTOBER 19, 2017
News Release

How Low Can You Go?

PNNL scientists served as lead guest editors for a special issue of the Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes.
APRIL 26, 2017
News Release

Steel Structure Shelters Sarcophagus at Chernobyl

April 26 marks the 31st anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 4 reactor. Battelle researchers at PNNL were involved in an international consortium to look at long-term safety and containment of Unit 4. T