Check out the creative side of the work scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and other labs do in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2025 Art of Science Image Contest. You can vote for your favorites.

Nuclear proponents acknowledge that not all tribes are necessarily on board with SMR development in the region. But they added that the ability for the tribes to achieve other environmental goals, such as removal of the power-generating Snake River dams, could be facilitated by SMRs coming online.

An expansion of a manufacturer’s Richland facility nearly two years in the making is almost ready to come online with nearly double the workforce.

The Tri-Cities is home to two local renewable natural gases projects, with a third one expected to come online later this summer. Already the first two projects, which started up a little over a year ago, have generated enough power to meet the needs of thousands of homes.

Should the lights ever go out, Portland International Airport wants to know exactly where it can find batteries to turn them back on. And Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is studying whether PDX looks no further than its own bus fleet.

Q&A with John Hayfield, senior vice president and general manager, Engineering & Technology, U.S. Nuclear,
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A three-year grant from the National Science Foundation will facilitate semester-long student exchanges to study the hottest and most controversial computer science topic around – and students at WSU Tri-Cities are eligible to apply. 

Battelle's donation will establish a new learning center focused on science, technology, engineering and math disciplines in its largest philanthropic gift ever in the Tri-Cities. 

A public hearing is set on the potential transfer of Ziply Fiber Northwest to Canada’s largest communications company.

The device using the PNNL-developed technology can detect fentanyl at levels as small as 6 parts per trillion. That’s equivalent to being able to detect six drops of food coloring mixed into 18 million gallons of water.