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Dr. David Hobbs Waste treatment work leads to new initiatives

A project that began a decade ago to enhance radioactive waste operations has led Dr. David Hobbs into a variety of new fields, with exciting results.

In 2001, the senior advisory scientist at DOE's Savannah River National Laboratory led a team tasked by the Office of Environmental Management with investigating materials that could be used to remove strontium and alpha-emitting radionuclides (principally Pu-238/239, Np-237 and U-235/238) from solutions for disposal. The national team set out to decipher the characteristics of a commonly used sorbent that enable it to sorb selected elements. They then put that knowledge to work to structurally modify the sorbent to improve its ability to remove the targeted radionuclides.

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Argonne National Laboratory broke ground in August on a $34.5 million Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility (APCF)Argonne breaks ground on Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility

DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory broke ground in August on a $34.5 million Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility (APCF) that will enable scientists from Illinois and around the world to produce, purify and characterize a wide range of proteins more rapidly and have a critical role in the development of important medical therapies.

The State of Illinois will provide funding for the design and construction of the APCF, which is slated to open in 2014. This is the third major investment by the state in Argonne’s facilities. Illinois also provided funds to construct the Argonne Guest House, which provides lodging for visiting scientists, and the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), which abuts Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS). Like the CNM, the APCF will also be located next to the APS.

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DOE Pulse
  • Number 346  |
  • September 19, 2011