• ARRA is helping Argonne clean up its past. Workers load drums of transuranic waste into a secured container which will be transported to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for safe disposal. Read More

  

• ARRA is helping Argonne clean up its past. Here, remote-handled transuranic waste is packaged and certified in a hot cell facility. The waste will be transported to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for disposal. Read More

  

• ARRA funds have enabled Argonne to maintain or create dozens of jobs. Here, Argonne representatives spoke to job-seekers at the National Urban League Conference Diversity Job Fair at McCormick Place in Chicago.

  

• The Recovery Act allowed Argonne to build and install an upgrade to our largest user facility, the world-class Advanced Photon Source, including these detectors.

  

• ARRA funds have allowed Argonne to decontaminate sites of past nuclear research. Workers load transuranic waste into a heavily shielded and secure shipping cask that ensures waste containers are safely transported for disposal.

  

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory anticipates close to $200 million in funding from the recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Already this infusion of ARRA funds has allowed us to preserve and create new jobs, move forward with critical environmental remediation activities, and continue to invest in technologies that will advance science, improve transportation, and better protect the environment in the long term. These investments will allow Argonne to realize the tremendous potential of scientific R&D to help drive the economy — in the region, state, and the nation — and provide a green energy future for years to come.

Argonne is using ARRA funds to hire dozens of new employees and upgrade our infrastructure through a series of shovel-ready projects. Here you can find information about Argonne's role in the nation's clean energy economy by promoting local economic development, creating new jobs, and providing global scientific and engineering leadership.

Latest Argonne Press Releases

	Federal Recovery Act funding used to clean up past, hire new Argonne employees The Recovery Act has enabled Argonne to initially hire 30 new employees to assist in the safe removal of transuranic radioactive waste materials from several scientific research facilities.
	Argonne receives $29 million in additional Recovery Act funds for major facilities upgrades, research Argonne has received an additional $29.1 million in DOE Office of Science (SC) funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a range of improvements and upgrades to major scientific facilities and other projects.

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