Advanced science and technology to advance science and technology
Argonne maintains a comprehensive suite of research facilities central to the laboratory’s scientific enterprise. From particle accelerators to automotive testbeds, these facilities give Argonne scientists and their collaborators access to tools and techniques found in many instances nowhere else.
Argonne’s Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) expansion will create a collaboration space for universities, industry and other government agencies to share technology development on advanced manufacturing proof-of-concept research.
The National Security Facility provides programmatic support in the areas of physical, personnel, cybersecurity, and training for intelligence-related work.
Argonne’s Passive Natural Convection Shutdown Heat Removal Test Facility provides capability to conduct safety experiments in support of modern reactor design.
The Radioanalytical Counting Laboratory is equipped numerous detectors for alpha, gamma, and electron counting to directly support the production of radioactive targets and experiments performed at ATLAS.
A fluid mechanics/heat transfer facility examining supercritical-CO2 leakage into sodium to support advanced nuclear reactors and energy conversion systems
