PNNL's director told staff in a meeting that up to 1,000 people could be cut if the current budget passes, a number that’s been echoed by state leaders.
A study published by experts behind an online education platform shows Washington state is among the best positioned to reap the benefits of the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, or AI, due to education, labor market and government funding.
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.
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.
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.
