UPTON, New York, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: An international group of more than 260 scientists have produced one of the most stringent tests for the existence of sterile neutrinos to date. The scientists from two major international experimental groups, MINOS+ at the Department of Energy's Fermilab and Daya Bay in China, are reporting results in Physical Review Letters (https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLet  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Aug. 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: For two decades, the Kansas Geological Survey has been investigating the state's subsurface geology and industrial infrastructure to determine the safety and viability of injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources into underground rock formations for long-term storage and to recover hard-to-reach oil. As part of an initiative to share data and advance research on the process, the KGS is now partnering w  more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Co-Optima FY19 Year in Review report released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) describes recent accomplishments to improve efficiency while reducing emissions and cost for the entire on-road fleet of combustion-powered vehicles under the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines program. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is playing a key rol  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: J.W. Plaue and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending July 17, 2020 Plutonium Facility-Glovebox Safety: On Tuesday, the Triad investigation team for the glove breach and airborne release event briefed preliminary results to se  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: J.W. Plaue and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending July 24, 2020 Plutonium Facility-Glovebox Safety: On Tuesday, a glovebox glove failed when a worker was entering the gloves to perform work. One glove and its support ring   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Six Questa High School seniors are headed back to school now to train for high-wage, building-trades employment as soon as next summer. As part of a public-private partnership, a new class offered at Questa High will offer this first cohort of students dual credit at the University of New Mexico-Taos and groom them for employment in an array of high-demand, skille  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: To have dependable power to explore the the frigid surface of Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is equipped with a type of power system called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)--which is what the latest episode of Mars Technica will tell listeners all about. "An RTG is essentially a nuclear battery that uses heat from the natural radioactive decay of pl  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: New 2D and 3D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile. Knowing this will be critical to NASA's forthcoming asteroid mission, Psyche: Journey to a Metal World, that launches in 2022. "This mission will be the first to   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Ten years ago, the Department of Energy put out a call for innovators to change the world of nuclear energy. What DOE hoped to accomplish with the then-new Energy Innovation Hubs concept was "translational research" -- research and development on an accelerated timeline that could solve the problems facing the nuclear industry, not only extending the life of the cur  more

IRVINE, California, Aug. 11 -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release on Aug. 10: An international group of more than 260 scientists, including physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has produced one of the most stringent tests for the existence of sterile neutrinos to date. The scientists from two major international experimental groups - MINOS+ at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago and Daya Bay in C  more