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Miami, Florida September 9, 2019 Florida International University’s Applied Research Center was honored to host the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) workshop entitled “Interregional Workshop on Optimization of Technology Selection for Decommissioning of Large and Small Nuclear Installations.” The workshop was conducted on the campus of Florida International University in Miami, Florida during the week of September 9 – 13, 2019. The workshop counted with the participation of Member State…

ARC-PNNL Team working on the project “Management of Hanford Low Activity Waste Off-Gas Condensate” just published a manuscript in the Journal of Hazardous Materials  (IF 7.65) entitled “Comparative analysis of ZVI materials for reductive separation of 99Tc(VII) from aqueous waste streams” authored by Daria Boglaienko, Hilary Emerson, Yelena Katsenovich and Tatiana Levitskaia. This research was funded by the Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) and was looking on interactions of Tc-99 with…

ARC researchers (Joseph Sinicrope, Peggy Shoffner, and Leo Lagos), with their collaborators Andrew  Szilagyi (DOE EM) and Connor Nicholson (SRNL) received a designation of “Paper of Note” for the WM’19 Symposia. Their paper, titled “International Standards as Critical Enablers to the Development and Diffusion of D&D Technologies” was one of twenty-three papers selected for this distinction this year.

The Applied Research Center cordially invites you to attend ARC’s Postdoctoral and Graduate Students Research Showcase 2019 on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 starting at 1:00 pm in EC 2300. This event will bring ARC’s postdocs and graduate students together to present and discuss the research projects they are working on at ARC.   Download Research_Showcase_2019_Flyer  

Dear Colleagues  I’m delighted to share this excellent news with our community (the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, Savannah River National Laboratory, FIU ARC and FIU Chemistry). Today, our DOE Fellow, Mr. Hansell Gonzalez-Raymat successfully passed his dissertation defense for a Ph.D. in chemistry. Hansell graduated from FIU in fall 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. After being accepted as a Ph.D. graduate student, Hansell was also competitively selected as a DOE Fellow in fall…

Congratulations to Applied Research Center (ARC) – Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Fellows hackathon team for winning the ShellHacks 2018 Oath challenge. ShellHacks is a recently-created annual hackathon held at Florida International University (FIU) during the month of September. The goal at each hackathon is to work in small teams to “hack together” a novel solution to a problem with the prospect to win prizes, recognition or both. This year,…

Dr. Yelena Katsenovich and a post doc associate Dr. Daria Boglaienko attended the Goldschmidt Conference in Boston on August 12-17 where they presented research conducted at the Applied Research Center at Florida International University in support of the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and the Department of Energy Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP) managed by the Savannah River National Laboratory. Dr. Boglaienko presented results of experiments conducted to investigate the removal…

Photo left to right: DOE Fellows Frances Zengotita, Dr. Hilary Emerson, DOE EM MSIPP Intern Antony Arun Maria, and DOE Fellows Silvina Di Pietro DOE Fellows Silvina Di Pietro and Frances Zengotita, DOE EM MSIPP Intern Antony Arun Maria, and Dr. Hilary Emerson attended the American Chemical Society National Meeting last week where they gave fantastic presentations on their research conducted at the Applied Research Center at Florida International University…

AIKEN, S.C. – EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and Florida International University (FIU) are teaming to examine a range of fixative and coating materials that could be a major improvement to help stabilize residual contamination in excess nuclear facilities. “Once you’ve ‘fixed’ the residual radioactive material in a building and/or a surface, you’ve substantially reduced risk and potential worker exposure,” SRNL engineer Michael Serrato said. “You’ve also created a much more stable envelope…