WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Energyissued the following testimony by Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, in a hybrid hearing entitled "Oversight of DOE During the COVID-19 Pandemic" on July 14: It is an honor to appear before you to discuss the Department of Energy's (DOE's) response to COVID-19. Chairman Rush, I'd also like to thank your team for the warm welcome at our Artificial Intelligence Event on the South Side of Chicago last fall. Our National La  more

PASADENA, California, July 17 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: At the center of a far-off galaxy, a black hole is slowly consuming a disk of gas that swirls around it like water circling a drain. As a steady trickle of gas is pulled into the gaping maw, ultrahot particles gather close to the black hole, above and below the disk, generating a brilliant X-ray glow that can be seen 300 million light-years away on Earth. These collections of ultrahot gas, called black   more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world we experience every day. The atomtronic Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) is also potentially useful for ultrasensitive rotation measurements and as a component in q  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: New research revealed that tiny, sunlight-absorbing particles in wildfire smoke may have less impact on climate than widely hypothesized because reactions as the plume mixes with clean air reduce its absorbing power and climate-warming effect. In a unique megafire study, a Los Alamos National Laboratory-led research team studied the properties of smoke from Arizon  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: In an NETL-supported collaboration with Wayne State University (WSU), researchers used a newly developed sorbent and a process previously developed for nuclear applications to produce an economically viable concentration of rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic coal fly ash, signaling an important step toward commercialization. The new sorbent media developed  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has announced the completion of the Exascale Class Computer Cooling Equipment Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). On May 12, the project reached Critical Decision-4 (CD-4), Project Completion, 10 months ahead of schedule and $20 million under budget. A ribbon-cutting c  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) is pleased to announce that the Low Level Liquid Waste Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been received the Department's Project Management Achievement Award. The award commends the Low Level Liquid Waste Project Team for delivering a state-of-the-art facility that  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) recognized the 75th anniversary of the dawn of the atomic age, which began July 16, 1945 with the "Trinity" test, the world's first nuclear detonation. A commemoration of the historic implosion took place Thursday, July 16, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's historic V-Site nea  more

TROY, New York, July 14 -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $65 million in grants to support research that will advance safe, reliable, and clean nuclear energy. Among those projects are two led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which received a combined total of $1.2 million. The first is led by Jie Lian, a professor of mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer. It will examine an integral component  more