By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced nearly $7 million in funding for seven projects that will develop coal-based filaments or resins for additive manufacturing and advance research and development (R&D) of coal-derived...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Like the gold at Fort Knox and the Hope Diamond, Hanford’s “valuables" were once housed in one of the most secure facilities in the nation. A top-secret room within a top-secret facility at the sprawling top-secret Hanford Site, a vault in the 231-Z Building protected the site’s plutonium during the first decade of national defense operations.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Fresh from a unique internship at Oak Ridge this past summer, Sierra Generette began a new full-time position this week serving as EM cleanup contractor UCOR’s lead on environmental justice matters.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is kicking off a weeklong celebration of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, coming up on October 8, by launching the first ever Hydrogen Business Case Prize Competition. The Prize will challenge teams to develop user-friendly analysis tools that identify regional business...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of EM leadership recently visited Catholic University’s Vitreous State Laboratory (VSL), a contributor to key innovations in the vitrification technology central to Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) in Washington state.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - DOE awarded four financial assistance grants, totaling approximately $33.5 million, to Oregon and Washington state last week. The non-competitive grants support environmental response regulatory activities, emergency preparedness, and public information programs related to the Hanford Site.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) have released two videos related to the planned demolition of the Main Plant Process Building featuring site subject-matter experts with more than 130 years of combined experience in nuclear decommissioning and environmental cleanup.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has awarded subcontracts valued at more than $1 billion to small and diverse businesses locally and nationally in the past four years.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s main contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) helped fund two centers for an area school district where students can stretch their imaginations while honing their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills by exploring electric circuit boards, tiny robots, and other unique gadgets.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), welcomed Mr. David Brown,
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Republican Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA) are requesting information and transparency from four progressive groups about possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
Release: Precedent-Setting Diverse Group of Experts Will Provide Advice and Recommendations on Departmental Priorities as DOE Accelerates the Clean Energy Revolution
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has completed safe demolition of the final DOE-owned buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), located northwest of Los Angeles, California. Finishing the teardown of Cold War-era buildings is another important step in the Department’s cleanup activities at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Our national security depends on our ability to secure critical energy infrastructure from cyber threats and attacks. Cyber-attacks to operational technology (OT) networks in the energy sector can lead to damaged equipment and disrupt the flow of the energy people depend on every day.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Our national security depends on our ability to secure critical energy infrastructure from cyber threats and attacks. Cyber-attacks to operational technology (OT) networks in the energy sector can lead to damaged equipment and disrupt the flow of the energy people depend on every day.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), introduced the Cape and Antler Preservation Enhancement (CAPE) Act. The CAPE Act provides discretion to the National Park Service (NPS) to donate the cape, hide, horn, and antlers obtained from non-native species during wildlife management activities to volunteers or others authorized by the park service.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
Release: Annual Open Call Funding Announcement Covers Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Nuclear Physics, and More
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: While today marks the last day of National Preparedness Month, preparedness underpins everything we do in CESER. Whether it’s embedding cybersecurity into emerging renewable technologies or conducting regular tactical preparedness exercises across government and industry, we are continuously preparing...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
There were 21 press releases or notices published by the U.S. Department of Energy in September.
