Infrastructure

Argonne maintains a wide-ranging science and technology portfolio that seeks to address complex challenges in interdisciplinary and innovative ways. Below is a list of all articles, highlights, profiles, projects, and organizations related specifically to infrastructure.

Ensuring a Resilient Power Grid

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Argonne’s multidisciplinary teams strengthen and secure America’s complex electrical grid

With 20,000 power plants, 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines, 60,000 substations and 3 million miles of power line, the nation’s electrical grid is perhaps the largest and most complex machine ever assembled.
Argonne partners to strengthen Puerto Rican infrastructure

Argonne researchers have helped Puerto Rico’s long-term recovery by bolstering the planning for its critical infrastructure systems.
Why machine learning could improve resiliency, save millions
Argonne researchers honored by Energy Secretary’s awards program

Lawrence Paul Lewis and Linda Hansen were recognized for their contributions to infrastructure security and nuclear nonproliferation, among others, at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary’s Honor Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., on August 29.
Argonne National Laboratory Assists Hurricane Florence Response
Florence weakens to Category 2 hurricane but still life-threatening
In simulation, Category 4 hurricane devastated East Coast
As Hurricane Florence barrels toward US, ‘worst case scenario’ simulation of Category 4 storm shows catastrophic devastation
A hurricane simulation done months ago was alarmingly similar to Florence. The damage was catastrophic.