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Quarterly research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Researchers at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed three of the 100 most significant innovations of 2000, according to R&D Magazine. Resulting technologies are reducing losses on food production lines, helping to ensure the safety of food and may replace glass with engineered plastics in electronic display panels.

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1- Maximizing miniature power producers; 2- Tags target inventory of Army weaponry; 3- Chemistry stops chromium contamination; 4- Energy efficiency at "core" of home.

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's quarterly news tipsheet.

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The Federal Laboratory Consortium has honored researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for their efforts in moving three technologies from the laboratory into the marketplace.

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1- Device sounds off on cracks; 2- "Doctored up" cotton for improved healing; 3- Marine ecological assessment in Hong Kong waters; 4- Chemical management made easier.

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A new sensor being developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reduces eye surgery risks by alerting surgeons to the location of critical retinal tissues.

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A new computer program now being tested could help reduce some of the difficulties associated with a spinal cord injury by providing at-home rehabilitation assistance.

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1- Glass fibers lead to scintillating discovery; 2- Building a green thumb for research; 3- Crush and color car part; 4- Researchers provide "shock" treatment.

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When a U.S. fighter pilot is flying over enemy territory, he must deal with the issue of whether or not his stealth fighter can be detected by radar. Now, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a hand-held, holographic camera that can assist ground crews in verifying the condition of an aircraft's stealth characteristics.

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory engineers have modified commercially available radio-frequency tags, which store information and can be used to track items such as clothing, to serve as high-tech "backpacks" for bees to see if they can be used to locate millions of landmines scattered worldwide.

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Research Highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: 1) Glass half full, half empty with ion trap, 2) A bird's eye view of public lands, 3) Pint-sized heat pumps, 4) Pulp "Fix-ion".

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Farming and snow skiing may not be the same in the Northwest if carbon dioxide levels double as projected by 2080, according to a scenario produced by a new regional climate change model. The model, created by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, indicates the Northwest will have significantly warmer and wetter winters in 80 years unless carbon dioxide emissions are reduced greatly.

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Research Highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Fifty years ago in the West Siberian Basin, Russian scientists began discharging liquid radioactive waste to rivers and reservoirs and injecting waste into the groundwater. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory now are leading the United States' contribution to the joint contaminant transport modeling project.

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers are developing an escape from information anxiety - "Topic Islands" (tm). This new interactive software program transforms data from large documents into visualizations and excerpted summaries. It recognizes themes and the evolution of topics within a document then breaks it into easily understandable sections.

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Overwhelmed by the information age? Mired in document dumps from your favorite Internet search engine? Searching for meaning in the morass of e-mail messages? The United States intelligence community found itself in much the same situation several years ago and turned to the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for help. The solution was software and visualization tools that graphically show clusters of similar themes within thousands of documents.

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Tiny grains of ceramic material inhabited by hungry molecules are looking like enormously effective options for cleaning up contaminated waterways and recovering precious metals.

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When workers believe they have been exposed to dangerous chemicals on the job, they often must provide a sample of blood or urine and wait three weeks or more to learn their fate. A breath-analyzing device developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory eases the uncertainty by providing immediate results of chemical exposure using a non-invasive technique.

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A new technique may be able to remove deadly contaminants from groundwater more easily and less expensively. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have created In-Situ Redox Manipulation to remediate contaminated groundwater at up to 60 percent savings over 10 years when compared to current remediation methods.

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Seven Pacific Northwest National Laboratory technologies -- most of which offer environmental solutions -- have landed on R&D Magazine's list of the 100 most significant innovations of 1997.

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered that nitroreductase enzymes found in spinach and other natural compounds can eat, digest and transform explosives such as TNT. The process reduces dangerous explosives to low toxicity byproducts that can be used by industry or reduced further to harmless products such as carbon dioxide and water.

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are teaming with Mnemonic Systems Inc. on an interactive system that will enable law enforcement personnel to quickly capture, store and relay vast amounts of information at crime scenes and other field scenarios.

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By the year 2008, drinking water will be safer, lighter weight cars will get 80 miles to a gallon and food crops will be engineered genetically to require less pesticide and fertilizer.

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a leader in environmental and energy sciences, is focusing its scientific and technological resources on the emerging problems of agriculture and food production.

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Starlight, an advanced three-dimensional visualization technology, has been developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., to help solve the problem of information overload. Already in use by the U.S. intelligence community, Starlight can be applied to a variety of other fields, such as medical data analysis, environmental security and current events monitoring.

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Technologies that promise faster, cheaper and more effective cleanup of certain contaminated soils now are available commercially through a new company formed jointly by Battelle and Terra Vac Corporation of Irvine, Calif.

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The first detailed measurements in Mexico City of pollutants such as peroxyacetal nitrate show concentrations similar to those that burned eyes and lungs in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, according to preliminary results of a field study conducted earlier this year. Peroxyacetal nitrate also is implicated in the production of ozone, another irritant that makes breathing difficult. The international study has implications for U.S. cities

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Border and customs agents from Hungary, Slovakia and the former Soviet Union will be coming to Washington state this fall to participate in a new training program designed to prevent smuggling of items ranging from blue jeans to nuclear eactor components.

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Secretary of Energy Federico PeÃ’a and senior executives from the Big Three automakers, the IBM Corporation and Northwest aluminum, transportation and electric utility companies will gather for a summit in Seattle later this month to discuss the development of technologies needed to create motor vehicles of the future, including cars that get 70 to 80 miles to the gallon.

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Technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have claimed three of the top 100 slots in R&D magazine's list of the most significant innovations of the past year.

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Two technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will make it more difficult for smugglers to slip illicit items past border enforcement agents.