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Research group to work with SRNL
5/16/2008 12:13 AM   1 comment(s) on this story E-mail this story to a friend



By MIKE GELLATLY Staff writer

The Savannah River National Laboratory has signed an agreement to work alongside one of the nation's most respected and longest serving scientific entities - Argonne National Laboratories.

It was announced Thursday that SRNL and ANL had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on a joint research effort focusing on nuclear energy and environmental management.

"This agreement blends the key skills and capabilities from SRNL and Argonne for advancing U.S. nuclear energy capabilities," said G. Todd Wright, SRNL laboratory director. "SRNL's core competencies for the development and deployment of applied technology solutions for safe nuclear facilities operation will help this partnership make advances that support important energy independence initiatives for the nation."

The SRNL is the applied research and development laboratory at SRS.

The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline.

The pair have more than 100 years of research experience combined, with Argonne's reaching back to The Manhattan Project.

The labs plan to collaborate in areas in which they have paired interest and expertise including actinide chemistry, the study of radioactive heavy metals, such as plutonium, and separations science, the design, study and application of processes for separating mixtures of compounds into their component substances.

"Advances in these research areas are vital for any U.S. expansion of the use of safe, clean nuclear energy, closing the nuclear fuel cycle and management of legacy nuclear materials," said Mark Peters, Argonne's program manager for the Global Nuclear Energy Project.





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Hopeful for better SNRL management :  5/16/2008

Let us hope that the new M&O contractor SRNS does a better job at managing a national lab than the outgoing bunch from WSRC/WGI/URS. The lame ducks departing on August 1 were like the dog that caught the car -- "Look what we got! Now what do we do with it?" They don't have a clue about how to run or, more importantly, how to support a national lab.

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