Energy

Overview

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Director McMillan on energy security

With energy use increasing across the nation and the world, LANL is using its world-class scientific capabilities to enhance national energy security by

• developing energy sources with limited impacts on environment
• improving efficiency and reliability of nation's energy infrastructure

Research directions

LANL’s diverse energy security research enterprise has three main focus areas:

1. Materials and concepts for clean energy, including
   • Science for renewable energy sources
   • Photovoltaics
   • Energy storage
   • Fuel Cells
2. Mitigating the impacts of global energy demand, including
   • Climate change prediction
   • Infrastucture reliability and security
   • Greenhouse gas monitoring and measurement
   • CO2 capture and sequestration
3. Sustainable nuclear energy, including
   • Fundamental advances in nuclear fuels
   • Nonproliferation safeguards
   • Reactor concepts
   • Reactor waste disposition

Capabilities

• Advanced modeling and simulation
• Biofuels, bioenergy
• Carbon dioxode separation, capture, sequestration
• Climate and earth system science
• Energy storage
• Fuel cells
• Geothermal energy
• Hydrogen storage, safety codes, standards
• Infrastructure analysis
• Nanomaterials and composites for energy applications
• Nuclear repository science
• Nuclear fuels design, processing
• Nuclear waste repository science
• Nuclear fuels
• Nuclear materials management
• Nuclear regulatory analysis
• Materials behavior under radiation
• Reactor design and modeling
• Smart grid network science
• Solid state lighting
• Superconductivity
• Unconventional fossil fuels
• Wind and renewable systems integration