By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $5.8 million in funding to develop three construction technologies that together can reduce the cost of new nuclear builds by more than 10 percent.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $52.5 million to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technologies and support DOE’s recently announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative to reduce the cost and accelerate breakthroughs in the clean hydrogen...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the two subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
Release: Projects Support DOE’s Recently Announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot to Lower Cost, Advance Breakthroughs for Clean Hydrogen Technology
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews were recently at work upgrading the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) when they encountered an unexpected challenge: they couldn’t obtain critical vendor services and parts needed for the project.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site, has awarded three subcontracts worth nearly $19 million to a local company for construction projects to support tank waste treatment.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The COVID-19 pandemic fast-forwarded the adoption and adaptation of the digital workplace and like at many EM sites, numerous work groups at the Hanford Site have mastered that shift.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM ’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently marked a milestone after receiving its 100th waste shipment from Oak Ridge, Tennessee since shipments resumed in August 2017, following a fire and radiological events in the WIPP underground in 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: EM has updated its popular “By the Numbers" feature, which illustrates cleanup progress at EM sites through quick and clear infographics.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has doubled the number of work shifts for employees in glovebox operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to advance DOE ’s mission of removing plutonium from South Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the global ransomware attack believed to be carried out by Russian-linked REvil gang.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that the Committee will hold a fully virtual Member Day Hearing on issues within the Committee’s jurisdiction in the 117th Congress on Tuesday, July 13, at 11 am (EDT). The...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
Release: Funding Will Support Marine Energy R&D Projects That Will Diversify America’s Renewable Power Sources, Boost Carbon-Free Electricity
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The University of Georgia’s (UGA) Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL), located on the Savannah River Site (SRS), recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of its creation.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the Committee will hold a fully virtual Member Day Hearing on issues within the Committee’s jurisdiction in the 117th Congress on Tuesday, July...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after President Biden nominated Alexander Hoehn-Saric, Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, to serve as Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC):
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced a transition of his top Committee staff as longtime Staff Director Jeff Carroll prepares to depart Capitol Hill. With Carroll’s departure, Pallone announced today that Deputy Staff Director Tiffany Guarascio has been promoted to Staff Director and General Counsel Waverly Gordon has been promoted to Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2021
News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso July 2, 2021 Fox News Every Fourth of July, Americans pile into their vehicles and take to the roads to celebrate our independence. We drive to backyard cookouts, town parades, community pools and local firework shows to celebrate the events of 1776. In 2019, America ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: June 21 marked the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling summer's arrival and the hottest stretch of the year.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) Technical Assistance Contract (CTAC) to Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., a woman-owned small business from Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
