By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Jessica Krzemien, a deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) waste operator at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), began learning to respect and care for the environment at a young age.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A first-time collaboration involving data analysis between EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) and the University of South Carolina-Aiken (USCA) has proven successful as four computer science students recently presented their work in a final step toward graduation.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site workers continue to make significant progress removing radioactive soil under a former engineering laboratory.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) released the second of its four-part video series spotlighting the site’s environmental research. This segment explores how the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ’s Aquatic Ecology Lab supports OREM.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: DENVER - More than 45 federal and contractor employees from across the EM complex recently gathered to collaborate on information technology, operational technology, and cybersecurity in conjunction with the DOE Cyber Conference (CyberCon). Several Department leaders addressed the EM IT Collaboration group during the meeting, including DOE Chief Information Officer Max Everett (pictured).
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: VANCOUVER, CANADA - Today, leaders from the United States and Canada are unveiling a new book, Breakthroughs: Nuclear Innovation in A Clean Energy System, at the Tenth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM10), a forum including ministers from 25 nations, occurring this year in Vancouver, Canada from May 27-29.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A local small business supporting the EM Richland Operations Office (RL) soil and groundwater program has made history as the first company outside the U.S. Department of Defense to receive a contract under the final phase of the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR).
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Designing and building a robot. Learning to print in 3-D. Researching current events and then producing a news media show.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho began demonstrations this month simulating the retrieval of a radioactive waste known as calcine.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Earlier this month, crews at Hanford’ s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) turned over to startup the last of 14 infrastructure support buildings necessary for the plant’s Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) operation. The achievement marks the substantial completion...
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A Hanford tank farms engineer recently received two awards at the 45th National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) conference in Detroit.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 4, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “STELAR Review: Protecting Consumers in an Evolving Media Marketplace."
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 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 hearing on health care extenders on Tuesday, June 4 at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Investing in America’s Health Care."
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
Release: VANCOUVER, CANADA – Today, leaders from the United States and Canada are unveiling a new book, Breakthroughs: Nuclear Innovation in A Clean Energy System, at the Tenth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM10), a forum including ministers from 25 nations, occurring this year in Vancouver, Canada from May 27-29.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott released the following joint statement today on the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to further undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by attempting to reverse anti-discrimination provisions of the law that protect women and transgender Americans’ rights...
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Greg Walden (R-OR) and the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX), along with Chairmen Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Richard E. Neal (D-MA), announced the solicitation for comments on draft legislation to reform and improve the Medicare Part D program that would establish an out-of-pocket cap for Medicare beneficiaries.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler. The letter requests...
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2019
Release: U.S. Department of Energy Further Advances Nuclear Energy Technology through Awards of $10.6 million
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced funding selectees for multiple domestic advanced nuclear technology projects. Three projects in three states will receive varying amounts for a total of approximately $11 million in funding. The projects are cost-shared and will allow...
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), along with Ranking Members Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Greg Walden (R-OR) announced the solicitation for comments on draft legislation to reform and improve the Medicare Part D program that would establish an out-of-pocket cap for Medicare beneficiaries.
