DOE Newswire Report News
LM Conservation Projects Protect, Restore, and Enhance LM Sites Nationwide
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management sustainability teams support DOE priorities, including ecological health, conservation, land reuse, land management, and energy conservation.
LM Co-Hosts Emergency Management Organization Annual Meeting
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
Natural and man-made disasters seem to be wreaking havoc around the world. Federal, state, and local government organizations are continually considering these threats in their current and future emergency management planning.
LM Makes a Splash at 28th Annual Western Colorado Children’s Water Festival
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
It was the first session of the morning, but before she could give her water-quality presentation to the fifth graders gathered at her booth, Sara Woods had to fire up the crowd.
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $34 Million to Deploy Clean Energy Technologies in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $34 million in funding to advance clean energy technology in 18 American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
MARVEL Microreactor Prototype Preps for Testing
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
An electric-powered prototype of one of the nation’s first microreactors has successfully been installed at a manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania and is gearing up for testing.
DOE Transfers Spent Nuclear Fuel to Dry Storage as Part of Idaho Settlement Agreement
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has successfully transferred all Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) spent nuclear fuel from wet to dry storage.
DOE Launches New Energy Earthshot to Decarbonize Transportation and Industrial Sectors
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of the Clean Fuels & Products ShotTM, a new initiative that aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products critical to our way of life.
DOE Announces $45 Million for Carbon Capture, Transport, and Storage to Reduce Carbon Pollution
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced up to $45.5 million in funding available to advance carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technologies and help establish the foundation for a successful carbon transport and storage industry in the United States.
First Historically Black University Joins Board at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Howard University, one of the nation’s leading historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), became the first HBCU to join the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) governing alliance board of directors, which consists of leaders from universities with top-tier science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs.
DOE Launches New Energy Earthshot to Decarbonize Transportation and Industrial Sectors
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of the Clean Fuels & Products ShotTM, a new initiative that aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products critical to our way of life.
DOE Announces Nearly $60 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen Technologies and Improve the Electric Power Grid
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $42 million in funding for 22 projects in 14 states to advance critical technologies for producing, storing, and deploying clean hydrogen.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $150 Million Through Investing in America Agenda for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced a $150-million investment into the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that will help the laboratory keep America on the cutting edge of clean-energy technology and lead the world in the transition to carbon-free power sources.
Precision Nuclear Physics in Indium-115 Beta Decay Spectrum using Cryogenic Detectors
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Certain isotopes such as Indium-115 (In-115) are extremely long lived, taking over 100 trillon years for half of the Indium atoms to decay away.
New Strategy Can Harvest Chemical Information on Rare Isotopes with a Fraction of the Material
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Studying radioactive materials is very difficult due to the potential health risks they pose to scientists.
A Simple Solution for Nuclear Matter in Two Dimensions
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Understanding the behavior of nuclear matter—including the quarks and gluons that make up the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei—is extremely complicated.
New Insights on the Interplay of Electromagnetism and the Weak Nuclear Force
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Outside atomic nuclei, neutrons are unstable particles, with a lifetime of about fifteen minutes.
Machine Learning-Based Protein Annotation Tool Predicts Protein Function
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Microbes drive key processes of life on Earth. They affect global elemental cycles—the movement of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements.
Australian Bushfires Likely Contributed To Multiyear La Niña
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The catastrophic Australian bushfires in 2019-2020 contributed to ocean cooling thousands of miles away, ultimately nudging the Tropical Pacific into a rare multi-year La Niña event that dissipated only recently.
Study presents new clues about the rise of Earth’s continents
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
New research from Cornell and the Smithsonian Institution deepens the geological understanding of Earth’s continents by testing and ultimately eliminating a popular hypothesis about why continental and oceanic crusts have contrasting compositions.
IU students to conduct research at Department of Energy’s National Laboratories
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Three Indiana University Bloomington graduate students will conduct research at National Laboratories as part of the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research program.