National User Facilities. Argonne designs, builds, operates and manages many outstanding scientific and engineering research facilities and welcomes the brightest minds from industry, academia and other government laboratories to pursue scientific discovery and innovation. Six of these facilities are official U.S. Department of Energy Scientific User Facilities, one is a DOE Leadership Computing Facility, and one is a U.S. Department of Transportation National Supercomputer Facility:

Advanced Photon Source, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Electron Microscopy Center, Structural Biology Center, and Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center.

Operated as national scientific resources, these facilities are sophisticated research machines that would be too expensive for a single company or university to build and operate. When research results will be published in the open literature, researchers may use these facilities without charge. When results are to be kept proprietary, a fee is charged for their use.

Ricketts Regional Biocontainment Laboratory. The University of Chicago's Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory will soon open at Argonne National Laboratory's DuPage County campus. Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Ricketts Laboratory is one of nine regional biocontainment laboratories that the National Institutes of Health plan to fund for the study of organisms important to national biodefense efforts as well as those causing emerging infectious diseases.

Outside User Facilities. Other Argonne facilities available to outside researchers from industry, academia and other national laboratories for a cost-recovery-based fee. On a negotiated basis, research results may be kept proprietary or published in the open literature at the user's discretion. Other laboratories and facilities located at Argonne and available to researchers include:

·        2-MeV Linac

·        3-MeV Van de Graaff Accelerator

·        Actinide Facility

·        Advanced Computing Testbed

·        Advanced Powertrain Test Facility

·        Aerosol Laboratory

·        Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

·        Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments (ABLE)

·        Atmospheric Field Measurement Facility

·        Auto Shredder Residue Laboratory

·        Basic Energy Sciences Synchrotron Radiation Center

·        Battery Test Facility

·        Cobalt-60 Source (20,000 curies)

·        Diesel Engine Test Facility

·        District Heating and Cooling Simulator

·        Electrochemical Energy Storage

·        Electrodialysis Pilot Facility

·        Electron Microscopy Laboratory — Argonne-West

·        Engineering Development Laboratory

·        Froth Flotation Separation Pilot Facility

·        Fuel Cell Test Facility

·        Fuel Conditioning Facility

·        General Medicine and Cancer Institutes Collaborative Access Team

·        High-Temperature Electrolyte Furnace Facility

·        Hot Fuel Examination Facility

·        Irradiated Materials Laboratory

·        Laser Applications Laboratory

·        Laser Laboratory

·        Magnetic Imaging Facility

·        Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility

·        Melt Attack and Coolability Experiments (MACE)

·        Micro-mass Spectrometer Laboratory

·        Millimeter Wave Laboratory

·        Neutron Radiography Reactor

·        Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratories

·        Nondestructive -Evaluation Test Load Frame Facility

·        Nondestructive -Evaluation Microscope Facility

·        Premium Coal Sample Facility

·        Powertrain and Emissions Laboratory

·        Pulsed Electron Linac

·        RDT&E Dilute Facility

·        Reactor Simulation Facility

·        Robotics Laboratory

·        Safety Analysis Training Center

·        Saltcake Facility Pilot Plant

·        Structural Biology Center

·        Tribology Laboratory

Vasil Sidorov on September 12, 2009

From Argonne National Laboratory Reports