Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have received a four-year, multimillion dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the chemical reactions that cause nuclear waste to change over time.
The grant establishes the IDREAM center, one of four newly minted DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers intended to play a major role in expediting the cleanup of Hanford and other sites contaminated by decades of nuclear weapons production. Sue Clark, a Batelle fellow at PNNL and a WSU regents professor of chemistry will serve as director of IDREAM (Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials).