X-Nico

6 unusual facts about Argonne National Laboratory


A Pail of Air

They reveal that other groups of humans have survived at Argonne, Brookhaven, and Harwell nuclear research facilities as well as in Tanna Tuva, and that plans are being made to establish uranium mining colonies at Great Slave Lake or in the Congo region.

Bcfg2

Bcfg2 (pronounced "bee-config") is a configuration management tool developed in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.

Centrifugal extractor

Initial design of the annular centrifugal contactor was done at Argonne National Laboratory through modification of a Savannah River Site paddle mixed design.

Gammasphere

Gammasphere was built in the early 1990s and has operated at the 88-inch cyclotron at Berkeley National Laboratory and at Argonne National Laboratory.

Michael H. Schill

In addition to serving as Dean of the Law School, Schill has been appointed Professor in the College where he teaches a course in law and urban problems and has joined the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory.

Transmission Electron Aberration-Corrected Microscope

It is based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California and involves Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as FEI and CEOS companies, and is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.


Boiling water reactor

In particular, Samuel Untermyer II, a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, proposed and oversaw a series of experiments: the BORAX experiments—to see if a boiling water reactor would be feasible for use in energy production.

Heterogeneous Element Processor

HEP systems were acquired by Los Alamos, the Argonne National Laboratory, the Ballistic Research Laboratory, probably the National Security Agency, and Germany's Messerschmitt which had the only 4 processor PEM system.

John M. Carpenter

During his career, Carpenter has held a number of term appointments at public and private institutions, including Visiting Scientist at Phillips Petroleum Company, Nuclear Technology Branch, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Fall 1965; Argonne National Laboratory, Solid State Science Division, 1971-1972, 1973; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Physics Division, 1973; and the Japanese Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Kō Enerugī Kasokuki Kenkyū Kikō, (KEK), 1982 and 1993.

Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics

Most JINA nuclear physics experiments are carried out at the Nuclear Science Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University and the ATLAS/CARIBOU facility at Argonne National Laboratory.

Sebastian Doniach

His research group at Stanford currently uses radiation from the Stanford Synchrotron and from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory for studies of protein and RNA structure and dynamics.

SPring-8

Together with the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France and PETRA at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, it is one of the four large (beam energy greater than 5 GeV) synchrotron radiation facilities in the world.

Ulrich Walter

After two post-doc positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley, California, he was selected in 1987 to join the German astronaut team.

Vallecitos Nuclear Center

Samuel Untermyer II, the GE engineer responsible for the initial design of the VBWR, had performed much of the conceptual research at Argonne National Laboratory, while conducting heat transfer and nuclear physics experiments, including the BORAX experiments (boiling reactor experiment).


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