I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

-Albert Einstein

Our Mission

To inspire the next generation of researchers, scientists, and engineers by providing a state-of-the-art laboratory experience, mentored by industry professionals, with the opportunity to participate in, and lead real research projects.  We believe that our students not only achieve more academically, but become life-long learners that will have a truly positive impact on the world we live in.

Overview

Northwest Nuclear Laboratories is an independent STEM laboratory in Federal Way, Washington for High School aged students.  Our volunteers have the opportunity to conduct real research and engage in engineering projects centered around a nuclear fusion reactor of similar design to those found in major research institutions around the world.  Designed, built, and operated by volunteers since 2010, the reactor and research provides the centerpiece of the Northwest Nuclear experience. 

However, nuclear science is not all that is explored in our laboratory.  Our biochemistry team uses the reactor for oncology experiments, while our electrical engineers and computer scientists enhance telemetry and derive statistical data from the fusion reaction, and our media and communication students educate the world on what we are doing using a full featured 4K two camera TV studio offering 4K switching and production.  In addition, we have a complete bio-engineering laboratory with HAZMAT L-2 biosafety cabinet, Lietz Labrolux phase contrast and florescence microscope and a Beckman Coulter DU 530 Spectrophotometer.  We currently leverage Microsoft AZURE for our data processing, and business intelligence needs, and offer a Meade LX90 8” “GOTO” astronomical telescope. We also have a complete machine shop with 26” lathe, 21” mill, 1/2” bandsaw, grinder, 200 amp mig, tig and stick welder, a 50 amp plasma cutter and propane and acetylene torch capability for brazing and glass work.

Philosophy

The simplest cells known to biological research still contain 400 genes or more, many of which define chains of 150+ complex amino acids in length.  In his book “Undeniable”, Dr. Douglas Axe chronicles his research on the combinatorial problem surrounding random mutation as a viable mechanism for evolution, and the overwhelmingly preposterous odds that it can explain how new proteins come to be.  Dr. Stephen Meyers, following a methodology of scientific reasoning originally used by Charles Darwin, concludes that whenever we find complex sematic information, and follow it back to its point of origin, we come to a mind, not a mechanical process, and so it is with DNA.

Cellular biology has exploded in the last 50 years with a revelation of automation and engineering at the bottom of every living cell so complex it dwarfs the most sophisticated software and hardware technologies known to mankind. The sheer irreducible complexity and interdependency we see displayed within our biosphere, and the elegant fine tuning of both the universe and our solar system, bear irrefutable witness to the existence of a primordial intelligent first cause.

In contrast, the contemporary materialistic worldview, and its chant of Neo-Darwinism, offers the de-bunked results of the Miller-Urey experiment in an effort to establish the failed hypothesis of abiogenesis. Its philosophy of the futility of mankind breeds suicide, hopelessness, and despair.

Northwest Nuclear Laboratories holds that science without absolute ethics is only a modern-day formulation of evil. Therefore, we are dedicated to empowering our students with perspective and insight capable of leveraging the intelligent design found in nature for the ethical benefit of all mankind.

What We've Achieved