DOE Newswire Report News
HALEU Demonstration Project Preps to Start First Domestic Production in U.S.
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp, is moving closer to operating an advanced centrifuge cascade in Piketon, OH to produce the nation’s first amount of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
Learn How FECM is Engaging Communities, Stakeholders, and Tribes in Clean Energy Technologies
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
If we are to build a clean energy and industrial economy and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, we have to deploy technology and infrastructure on an unprecedented scale.
DOE Announces Over $17 Million for University-Led Projects Supporting Decarbonization and Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
Energy Department Awards $1.2 Million in Funding for Storage Social Equity Initiative
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced it selected four organizations to receive funding under the Energy Storage for Social Equity (ES4SE) Initiative.
DOE Hits the Road to Showcase Decarbonization of American Buildings and Plants
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the first season of the Better Climate Challenge Road Show, a video series highlighting the leadership of public and private organizations in decarbonizing buildings and industrial plants.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $135 Million to Reduce Emissions Across America’s Industrial Sector
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $135 million for 40 projects that will reduce carbon pollution from the industrial sector and move the nation toward a net-zero emissions economy by 2050 by advancing key transformational and innovative technologies.
DOE Announces Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize Winners
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
This week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced six grand prize winners of the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $13.5 Million Investment to Equitably Grow Solar Energy Workforce
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
DOE Launches New Round of American-Made Solar Prize
By DOE Newswire Report | Jul 2, 2023
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of the American-Made Solar Prize Round 7
Researchers Demonstrate Secure Information Transfer Using Spatial Correlations in Quantum Entangled Beams of Light
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma led a study recently published in Science Advances that proves the principle of using spatial correlations in quantum entangled beams of light to encode information and enable its secure transmission.
Laboratory for Laser Energetics joins team to develop commercial fusion energy
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
The US Department of Energy program partners private companies with national laboratories and universities to design the first commercial fusion power plant.
UVA-Led Discovery Challenges 30-Year-Old Dogma in Associative Polymers Research
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
A University of Virginia-led study about a class of materials called associative polymers appears to challenge a long-held understanding of how the materials, which have unique self-healing and flow properties, function at the molecular level.
Layers of self-healing electronic skin realign autonomously when cut
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Human skin is amazing. It senses temperature, pressure, and texture.
Rice U. grad student wins DOE research award
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
The goal of the program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission by providing graduate thesis research opportunities through extended residency at DOE national laboratories.
Axions whisper, but can you hear them? FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers think so
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
To hear an axion, you have to be listening very, very carefully.
Treatment creates steel alloys with superior strength and plasticity
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
A new treatment tested on a high-quality steel alloy produces extraordinary strength and plasticity, two traits that must typically be balanced rather than combined.
Graduate Student Selected for DOE Research Program at Sandia National Lab
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected physics graduate student Adam Christensen from The University of Texas at Austin to participate in the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
Scientists report world’s first X-ray of a single atom in Nature
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Ateam of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and others, led by Ohio University Professor of Physics, and Argonne National Laboratory scientist, Saw Wai Hla, have taken the world’s first X-ray SIGNAL (or SIGNATURE) of just one atom.
A Nanocrystal Shines On and Off Indefinitely
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
In 2021, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles made waves—or rather, an avalanche—when Changwan Lee, then a PhD student in Jim Schuck’s lab at Columbia Engineering, set off an extreme light-producing chain reaction from ultrasmall crystals developed at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab.
Clemson University team leads sustainable energy research
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
A group of Clemson University researchers led a study that was recently published in the journal Nature Communications and is aimed at developing advanced materials for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and building a clean and sustainable energy future.