From October 2017 through March 2018, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory’s Public Affairs Science and Technology (PAST) Fusion Cell conducted a case study on a tunnel collapse that occurred May 9, 2017, at the Hanford Site, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility near Richland, Washington. The purpose of this study was to collect and ...

On November 28, 2016, wildfires ravaged the Gatlinburg, TN area killing 14, injuring 191 and damaging or destroying more than 2,400 homes and businesses. For nearly two weeks, local, State, and Federal agencies worked to quell the fires. This event of historical proportions has many lessons to be learned that encompass a number of areas ...

 On the morning of February 27, 2010, a potentially destructive tsunami reached the Hawaiian Islands, followinga powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile the prior evening. In the approximately 15 hours between the time of the earthquake and thetsunami making landfall, information to warn the populations at risk was communicated through multiple official and unofficial channels, ...