Limited Capacity

Cost: $30

Explore the world-class nuclear facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, where we are accelerating nuclear science and technology to drive U.S. prosperity and security. 

We will visit one-of-a-kind x-ray and microscopy facilities that let Argonne and visiting scientists characterize nuclear fuels and structural materials, including the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science user facility and one of the premier X-ray light sources in the world. The APS has recently undergone a comprehensive upgrade that increased the brightness of its X-ray beams by up to 500 times. Researchers using the upgraded facility are able to probe materials faster and at higher spatial and time resolutions, opening up new frontiers for both science and industry.   We will also visit Aurora, a lightning-fast supercomputer that harnesses Artificial Intelligence to simulate advanced nuclear reactors, and some of our experimental facilities where we test the durability and safety of nuclear reactor equipment, such as the Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop (METL) facility.