News from April 2023
PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference Highlights STEM Career Paths for Students
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
Jashanty Simo, a student at Paterson STEAM High School, was inspired by the advice she heard at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s (PPPL) Young Women’s Conference in STEM at Princeton University on March 16.
LHC experiments see four top quarks
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
On March 24th, researchers with the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider reported they had observed a rare process that produces four top quarks.
Research fellow Jeff Foster investigates ways to create designer molecules
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
Chemist Jeff Foster is looking for ways to control sequencing in polymers that could result in designer molecules to benefit a variety of industries, including medicine and energy.
Researchers find new molecule that shows promise in slowing SARS-CoV-2
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
Researchers have designed a molecule that slows the effects of one of SARS-CoV-2's more dangerous components – an enzyme called a protease that cuts off the immune system's communications and helps the virus replicate.
Idaho Waste Treatment Facility Begins Operations to Address Tank Waste
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site initiated operations Tuesday to convert radioactive sodium-bearing liquid waste from nearby underground tanks to a more stable, granular solid.
Chairs Rodgers, Latta Announce Legislative Hearing on Unleashing U.S. Communications Innovation
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced a hearing titled “Breaking Barriers: Streamlining Permitting to Expedite Broadband Deployment."
Energy Department Seeks Input on Distribution and Large Power Transformers
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting feedback from transformer manufacturers, utilities, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other applicable stakeholders regarding distribution...
Congressional Republicans Call for Reconsideration of Administration’s Anti-Innovation Drug-Price Policy
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), and and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Mike Crapo (R-ID), raised concerns with the Biden administration’s initial drug price-setting program implementation guidance document.
Chair Rodgers on Biden’s New EPA Tailpipe Proposals: It Will Make New Vehicles Unaffordable
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the Biden administration’s announcement of two new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to make vehicles even more expensive for Americans.
Barrasso: EPA Rule Would Increase Prices & Help China
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
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), commented on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule on emissions for vehicles, trucks, and tractors.
Chairs Rodgers, Griffith Announce O&I Subcommittee Hearing on Role of Data Brokers in the Digital Economy
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today announced a subcommittee hearing to discuss the role of data brokers and online privacy protections.
U.S. Department of Energy Announces Funding Opportunity for Transitioning Tribal Colleges and Universities to Clean Energy
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (Office of Indian Energy) issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for $15 million to transition Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) to clean energy.
Chair Rodgers on Biden’s New EPA Tailpipe Proposals: It Will Make New Vehicles Unaffordable
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the Biden administration’s announcement of two new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to make vehicles even more expensive for Americans.
DOE Issues Expression of Interest for Surface Contaminated Nickel Technology
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: Lexington, KY- Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth Paducah Project Office (PPPO) issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) seeking industry input for operationally mature technologies to support the potential reuse of approximately 6400 tons of radiologically surface-contaminated nickel removed from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) as a part of ongoing cleanup activities.
'No Fear of Heights is a Good Quality': Oak Ridge Inspects Towering Stack
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2023
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Performing work on tall structures presents unique challenges. But when they’re also aging, they bring an even greater dimension to planning.
Protecting High-Performance, Superconducting Magnets
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division have developed a method for detecting and predicting the local loss of superconductivity in large-scale magnets that are capable of generating high magnetic fields.
DUNE Resources Review Board to meet in South Dakota for the first time
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
On March 30 and 31, representatives from science funding agencies around the world will meet in Lead, South Dakota, to view the progress on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, an international experiment hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Charming Experiment Finds Gluon Mass In The Proton
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
Nuclear physicists may have finally pinpointed where in the proton a large fraction of its mass resides.
Brenden Ortiz, Wigner Fellow, is living his dream and discovering new materials
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
For as long as he could remember, Brenden Ortiz wanted to do only one thing.
Ultrasmall swirling magnetic vortices detected in iron-containing material
By DOE Newswire Report | Apr 13, 2023
Microelectronics forms the foundation of much modern technology today, including smartphones, laptops and even supercomputers.