Inorganic, Isotope, and Actinide Chemistry

Actinide separation, production, and energy storage

Addressing national needs in nuclear energy and medical imaging

The Inorganic, Isotope, and Actinide Chemistry (C-IIAC) Group supports the Laboratory’s mission in key areas, including supporting new materials and separation processes with actinide chemistry, developing production methods and applications for accelerator-produced radionuclides, and using chemical systems for energy storage and production methods.

Researchers in C-IIAC conducted basic and applied research in nuclear chemistry and physics, accelerator target physics, inorganic chemistry, catalysis and chemical transformations, and environmental chemistry.

Our capabilities are essential for energy security, civilian-sector R&D, and industrial partnering

Capabilities 

• Chemical Energy Storage
• Materials Handling and Actinide Chemistry
• Radioisotope Production

C-IIAC has key collaborations with Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, Theoretical, Bioscience, and Materials Physics and Applications divisions; with other groups within Chemistry Division; and with university, industry, and other national laboratory partners.

Current major sponsors include NNSA, DOE energy and Office of Science, other federal agencies and LANL institutional support.