News and reports from the Department of Energy.

TerraPower will build a Natrium reactor in Kemmerer Wyoming, which the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy believes will create thousands of construction jobs and hundreds more permanent jobs once completed.

News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR are expanding partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - As editors and judges from International Business Magazine searched the globe for the world’s best managers and leaders, one executive from the DOE complex stood out: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) Chief Information Officer Jeff Krohn, who is being recognized as a Government Hero of the Year in an award program’s COVID-19 response category.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement in response to President Biden tapping into the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- At the direction of President Biden, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm authorized that 50 million barrels of crude oil from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) be made available. As the global economy recovers from the pandemic, oil supply...

News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM’s Paducah Site is constructing a key facility in the cleanup of the former gaseous diffusion plant.

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant has completed all startup testing of components and systems associated with transforming low-activity tank waste into a safe form for disposal.

News Release: Summary of 50 Million Barrel Release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) has been able to navigate shallow sections of the Rio Grande and its tributaries to sample for contaminants despite unseasonably low water levels this year.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced additional details today on the legislative hearing the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold on Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 10:30 a.m. EST in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Holding Big Tech Accountable: Targeted Reforms to Tech’s Legal Immunity."

News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - A first-of-a-kind leadership academy for employees at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is recognized as a DOE best practice to improve safety culture.

News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently received its 13,000th shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste, marking an important landmark in EM’s mission to clean up the country’s Cold War legacy.

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Savannah River Remediation (SRR) awarded more than $147 million in small business contracts in fiscal 2021, accounting for nearly 84% of all its subcontracts that year - the most since the liquid waste contractor began its contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in 2009.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) released the following statement on the administration’s announcement that it will release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.