DOE Newswire News
Portsmouth Site Scores Four Million Safe Work Hours
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - Employees with Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth (FBP), EM’s decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site, were recently treated to a luncheon, celebrating the completion of 4 million safe work hours.
DOE Finds Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
Release: New DOE Analysis Finds Energy Jobs Increased in 95% of U.S. Counties from 2021 to 2022
Keeping Up with Change, One Digital Record at a Time
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: For months, the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management Records, Information, and Knowledge Management group has been wading through several pallets of boxes at the Morgantown Records Storage facility in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $48 Million In Grid Resilience Grants for States and Tribal Nations to Modernize Electric Grid
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
Release: President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Provides 6th Round of Funding to States and Tribal Entities for Grid Resilience, Enhanced Delivery of Clean Energy Across America
DOE Awards $11.7 Million to the Southeast New Mexico College
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a non-competitive financial assistance Cooperative Agreement (DE-EM0005275) to the Southeast New Mexico College (SENMC), of Carlsbad, New Mexico for educational programs that will enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of current Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) employees while building and training the next generation workforce for this important national cleanup resource.
DOE Releases New Report on Anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act Detailing How POTUS' Investing in America Agenda will Strengthen U.S. Economy by 2030
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
Release: New Analysis Shows that Inflation Reduction Act And Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Save American Families up to $38 billion on Electricity Bills, Reduce Nation’s Reliance on Net Crude Oil Imports by Nearly 60%, and Could Increase Clean Electricity to 80% of America’s Grid by 2030
Workers Train to Cut Into Hanford Underground Waste Tank
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers on the Hanford Site are preparing to cut into the dome of an underground waste-storage tank later this summer to get ready for future waste retrieval operations.
DOE Honors Moab Project for Five Years of Excellence in ‘Green Purchases’
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: MOAB, Utah - DOE has awarded EM's Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project the coveted Superior GreenBuy Award, honoring the site’s efforts to reduce its footprint through environmentally friendly acquisitions over the past five years.
DOE Awards Research Funds to Early Career Scientist at Office of Environmental Management's National Lab
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Holly Flynn, a researcher at the Office of Environmental Management's (EM’s) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), will receive $2.5 million over five years to fund research associated with fusion energy after being selected as a DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program awardee.
Memorandum of Understanding Supports Navajo Nation’s Energy Transition
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: Multi-Year, Multi-Agency Deal Seeks to Ease Tribal Access to Historic Federal Funding.
Hanford Demolition Paves Way for Cleanup Progress Near Columbia River
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: Workers with EM contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently began demolishing the K West Annex on the Hanford Site. The annex was constructed to support the safe packaging and transfer of radioactive sludge from the K West spent-fuel basin and away from the Columbia River.
Virtual Display Offers Interactive FUSRAP History
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management has launched an online, interactive Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program display to engage the public with FUSRAP history.
DOE Awards $34 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
Release: Industry and University-Led Projects Across the Country Will Develop Technologies and Infrastructure for Efficient Hydrogen Production, Transport, and Storage
Local Students Complete Los Alamos Apprenticeship Program
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Representatives of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) and Environmental Management (EM) Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) were on hand last week to congratulate Dominic Montaño and Milnor Branch, the most recent graduates of the N3B Nuclear Operator Apprenticeship Program (NOAP).
DOE Brings Partners Together for First-Ever Net Zero World Ministerial
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
Release: SEATTLE, Washington — On Aug. 15, 2023, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm hosted the first Net Zero World Ministerial since the initiative launched at COP26. Participants took stock of the progress they have made toward their climate and clean energy goals and discussed next steps and new areas of collaboration.
ICYMI: Secretary Granholm Hosted 13th APEC Energy Ministerial Meeting
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
Release: SEATTLE, WA – On August 15-16, 2023, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm hosted the 21 energy ministers in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) initiative, including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, New Zealand, Peru, many ASEAN countries, and ...
EM-Sandia Team Explores Emerging Robotics With U.K. Partners
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: At the Sellafield site on the coast of Cumbria, England, remotely operated submersible vehicles perform inspection and manipulation tasks in ponds where spent fuel is stored.
DOE Awards $34 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance cutting-edge technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial...
Turtles Find a Forever Home on Savannah River Site
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: This series of photos shows the release of offspring of confiscated eastern box turtles at the Savannah River Site by the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and its partners earlier this year.
EM Readies Y-12 Facility for Teardown at Oak Ridge
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2023
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews have completed major deactivation efforts on a Manhattan Project-era facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex scheduled for demolition next year.