By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The EM Nevada Program has safely and successfully completed environmental corrective actions at historically contaminated soils sites on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) and Air Force-controlled Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The line running through the past, present and into the future of the Hanford Site is filled with markers of success.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $26 million in funding for 13 projects as part of the Aerodynamic Turbines, Lighter and Afloat, with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control (ATLANTIS) program. These teams will develop new technologies for floating, offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) using the discipline of control co-design (CCD).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the oil and gas leasing program for the non-wilderness Coastal Plain (1002 Area) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: MOAB, Utah - This year, EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project expects to reach a milestone of 10 million tons of residual radioactive material safely relocated.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - With a forceful push from heavy machinery, the final wall of Oak Ridge’s last gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment building crashed to the ground in summer 2016. In that moment, Oak Ridge became the first site in the world to successfully remove all of its former enrichment facilities.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Much of the mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and the early Cold War period took place at what was known as Technical Area-01 (TA-01).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: In the early 1960s, the U.S. government established the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) as a “center of excellence" for liquid metals research, located in Area IV of Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the southeast corner of Ventura County, California. All nuclear energy activities and research...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - When it comes to cleanup at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, it’s “all about the aquifer" - the Snake River Plain Aquifer, that is, the primary drinking and agricultural water source for more than 300,000 residents.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - In 2018, EM and its cleanup contractor safely completed the demolition of the 50-foot-tall, 10,000-square-foot Vitrification Facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Current and former leaders and colleagues past and present gathered to mark the 30th anniversary of EM achievements and progress in cleaning up the environmental legacy of the nation’s nuclear production and research.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - EM recently completed deactivation, decontamination, demolition, and site restoration at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) nuclear facilities at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - For 23 years, EM at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has been using the nation’s only operating vitrification plant to help reduce the single greatest environmental risk to South Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - Next month, the most significant milestone in the Portsmouth Site’s decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) project so far is set to be realized as the X-326 Uranium Enrichment Process Building is poised to be declared “criticality incredible.".
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Throughout its 30-year history, EM has focused on a particular environmental issue at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site in western Kentucky: addressing contamination of groundwater.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, September 19 at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building entitled, “Protecting Unaccompanied Children: The Ongoing Impacts of the Trump Administration’s Cruel Policies."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
Release: CAIRO, EGYPT - Today, Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla, Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette launched the U.S.-Egypt Strategic Energy Dialogue, which will facilitate closer government and private sector cooperation on energy between the United States and Egypt.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 10:30 am in Room 2322 of the...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a field hearing on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Chicago, Illinois on the public health threat posed by gun violence. The hearing will be held at Kennedy King College.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building...
