WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs issued the following news release on July 1, 2021: The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) announced today that it has awarded more than 6.5 million in Energy and Mineral Development Program (EMDP) grants to 27 federally recognized tribes and seven Alaska Native corporations in 15 states. The funding will aid their efforts to identify, study, design and/or develop projects using energy, mineral and natural resources  more

MCLEAN, Virginia, June 30 (TNSOps) -- The Center for Excellence in Education issued the following news release: The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) welcomes 81 top achieving U.S. high school and international scholars to the 38th annual Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). RSI is an intensive, six-week program that gives students the opportunity to conduct original, cutting-edge science, technology, engineeri  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R44442) on June 28, 2021, entitled "Energy and Water Development Appropriations: Nuclear Weapons Activities" by nuclear weapons policy specialist Amy F. Woolf: * * * Summary The annual Energy and Water Development appropriations bill funds civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy (DOE), and several independent a  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R44442) on June 28, 2021, entitled "Energy and Water Development Appropriations: Nuclear Weapons Activities": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 2) Production Modernization According to NNSA's budget documents, the Production Modernization program area "focuses on the production capabilities of nuclear weapons critical to weapon performance, including [plutonium] primaries, [uranium] secondaries, radiatio  more

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- 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: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending June 11, 2021 Plutonium Facility-Glovebox Safety: On Monday, a worker in a plutonium machining area discovered contamination on their personal protective equipment while performing a survey  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- 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: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending June 4, 2021 Area G-Safety Basis: Last Thursday, N3B transmitted to the EM Field Office and EM Headquarters for approval a revised Justification for Continued Operations (JCO) for the Pote  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, June 29 (TNSGra) -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: Faculty members in Mississippi State University's departments of Aerospace Engineering and Geosciences are advancing nuclear energy technology with $1.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for two separate projects. Aerospace Engineering Assistant Professor Zhenhua Tian is serving as principal investigator for an $800,000 grant to develop and validate wireless, ultrasonic sens  more

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan, and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm opposing the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) in New Mexico. "We are strongly opposed to the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste   more