Meeting future energy demands involves finding ways to store energy from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. Traditionally, one may imagine the chemists doing this work leaning over bench tops full of beakers, mixing chemicals. However, modern chemistry requires modern solutions. We can use computational chemistry to tell a lot about a reaction, including where atoms are in a molecule, how they interact with one another, and how much energy is required. Come see the exciting ways we use…

Learn about the work Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is doing to clean up legacy waste at the Hanford site. What about glass makes it a good candidate for waste immobilization? How do the melters work? What are the challenges we face and how do we overcome them?