By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: In July, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) conducted its first groundwater sampling event at the Colonie, New York, Site - the 100th site added to the LM program. The Colonie site is a 11.2-acre, vacant property near Albany, which transferred to LM for long-term stewardship last fall.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the Office of Science-Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Crews at Hanford ’s tank farms recently completed removal and staging of 52 large concrete covers used to shield hoses for transferring radioactive waste between waste tanks in Hanford’s AY and AP farms. Tank farms are groups of tanks. The covers are known as “barns." They are being...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ohio - A virtual science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) camp supported by a grant from EM was conducted recently by Ohio University to educate youth in the region that includes the Portsmouth Site.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The importance of small businesses in supporting Oak Ridge’s EM mission was on full display last week at the eighth annual Small Business Awards Breakfast.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - A project at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has reached an early milestone as crews embark on a new phase to excavate a new utility shaft - an - located west of the WIPP plant.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Under this cost-shared research and development...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) today introduced a bill to promote diversity among the broadcast media industry and support local broadcasters across U.S. communities.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently completed a three-phase process optimization outage to create efficiencies to help DOE expedite plutonium downblending and removal from South Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced $16.5 million in funding for six projects as part of the Systems for Monitoring and Analytics for Renewable Transportation Fuels from Agricultural Resources and Management (SMARTFARM) program. These projects will develop...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - It’s weigh-in time for engineered containers of radioactive sludge from the Hanford Site ’s K West Reactor. The containers are in safe interim storage at the site’s T Plant, a former chemical reprocessing facility. Workers with Hanford contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Under this cost-shared research and development ...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference briefing with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., today about the agency’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Hahn was joined on the teleconference by Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Director Peter Marks M.D., PhD., and Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Acting Director Patrizia Cavazzoni M.D.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
Release: Columbia, S.C. - Today, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette joined Attorney General Alan Wilson at the South Carolina State House to announce a historic settlement between the Trump Administration and the State of South Carolina on the removal of 9.5 metric tons of plutonium from the state. This settlement is the conclusion of years of litigation, which began during the Obama Administration and a directive from Congress from nearly two decades ago.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Nationwide Low-Level Mixed Low-Level Waste Treatment Services. The RFP will be issued on a full-and-open, unrestricted basis. It is DOE’s intent to issue one or more Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) as a result of this RFP.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Hub (Hub), announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for innovations in intensified brine-management solutions for high-salinity streams. The RFP supports the Water Security Grand Challenge...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, at a live, virtual event, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Assistant Secretary Daniel R Simmons announced the grand prize winners of the second round of the American-Made Solar Prize, a $3 million competition designed to increase U.S. solar manufacturing competitiveness. The two winning teams will each receive $500,000.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the members of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC), which will counsel the Administration on ways to ensure continued American leadership in quantum information science (QIS).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette named John Hairston as Acting Administrator and CEO of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). Hairston has dedicated the last 29 years to service at BPA in various positions, his most recent role as Chief Operating Officer (COO) since ...
