By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on President-elect Biden’s speech tonight outlining his plan to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) continues to make substantial progress in its mission to safely and efficiently reduce risk at the Hanford Site by managing and retrieving millions of gallons of radioactive waste stored in massive underground tanks.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Tour the sprawling Hanford and Savannah River sites from the comfort of your home thanks to newly created virtual tours of each location.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - For the first time, EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have removed columns that are filled with cesium in a demonstration project designed to accelerate removal of radioactive salt waste from underground tanks.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: In early 2020, EM set out an aggressive list of priorities for the coming year. As the year came to a close, EM accomplished the vast majority of its Calendar Year 2020 priorities, reaching major historic milestones that advanced its cleanup mission, according to a newly released scorecard. Notably, these accomplishments came amid the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced approximately $123.6 million in funding, as well as $44.7 million of cost share, for 46 projects in 23 states to stimulate technology innovation, improve the energy productivity of American manufacturing, and enable the manufacturing of cutting-edge products in the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 10 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Portsmouth, Paducah, Savannah River, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Deputy Energy Secretary Mark W. Menezes and Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar visited the Hanford Site last week to mark the completion of construction on facilities at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) needed to start treating radioactive waste from large underground tanks through the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) approach.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) enters a new chapter in cleanup this year that will transform the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) and support the important missions at those sites.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM workers provided feedback and lessons learned to help develop a new box to contain materials for disposal as they decontaminate the walls of a former reprocessing cell inside the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Today, the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize released the official for the third and final phase of the Department of Energy (DOE) funded $5.5 million competition. The goal of this Prize is to develop and demonstrate processes that, when scaled, have the potential to profitably capture 90% of all discarded...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will be hosting a virtual hiring event Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), issued the following...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Engineers with EM contractor Fluor Idaho are working with Idaho State University to conduct radiation testing on components to be used to remove a granulated high-level radioactive waste called calcine from a storage bin at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2021
News Release: Since 2017, four of the world’s biggest maritime shipping companies have been impacted by cyber-attacks, the most recent being French shipping giant CGA CMA Group, increasing the need for heavier cybersecurity measures for ships, ports, terminals, and offshore facilities.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an additional $47 million in funding for seven projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. These...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2021
News Release: Since 2017, four of the world’s biggest maritime shipping companies have been impacted by cyber-attacks, the most recent being French shipping giant CGA CMA Group, increasing the need for heavier cybersecurity measures for ships, ports, terminals, and offshore facilities.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an additional $47 million in funding for seven projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. These...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) congratulates the 27 winners of the 2020 Federal Energy and Water Management and the two winners of the FEMP Director’s Award.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today the appointments of Mr. Han Xiao, Ms. Karin Korb, Ms.
