COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 8 (TNSPer) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: For much of his career, Texas A&M University nuclear engineer Dr. Marvin L. Adams has been considered one of the nation's foremost experts on nuclear security outside of the federal government. Now he's on the inside. On April 6, Congress confirmed Adams' appointment by President Joe Biden to serve as deputy administrator for defense programs within the Department of Energy.   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: Tracy Atkins, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management Manhattan Project National Historical Park program manager, turned a love for travel and a taste for adventure into a career that allowed her to pursue both. That taste for adventure led her to trek to the base camp of one of the tallest mountains in the world - 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal in 2018 - to exploring the dept  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 (TNSTalk) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following statement on April 7, 2022, by Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm: * * * U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today following the U.S. Senate confirmation of Dr. Marvin Adams by voice vote this morning to serve as Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): "I am so grateful to the   more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources issued the following testimony by Adam Peltz, senior attorney of the Environmental Defense Fund, involving a remote oversight hearing on March 31, 2022, entitled "Benefits of the Legacy Pollution Clean-Up Programs in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law": * * * Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the new orphan oil and gas well closure funding, an important component of   more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- 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 and J. Plaue, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending March 18, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: Staff members M. Dunlevy and P. Migliorini were on site for a review of the current safety posture of Area G under multiple Justification  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 7 (TNSPol) -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release on April 6, 2022: Today the Los Alamos Study Group filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court of Washington, DC under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking the federal government to release records unlawfully withheld in response to FOIA requests for documents. Most of these documents concern the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) crash program to produce additio  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: When Andrew Sutton arrived at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in late 2020, he knew the move would be significant in more ways than just a change in location. The chemist was leaving Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico, his home base for the past decade, to join ORNL's recently formed Manufacturing Science Division and lead the new Chemical Process Scale-Up G  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature: Through sparks, dust, and a primordial roar, a fiery world took shape outside Arun Devaraj's office. Three giant electric arc furnaces transformed steel scrap and hot briquetted iron made from iron ore into steel. Every day, Devaraj would venture onto the floor of the cavernous Essar steel factory in Surat, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. He'd f  more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, April 6 (TNSRes) -- Purdue University issued the following news release: For two decades, Roger Wiens has built instruments to give humans eyes and a nose on Mars - and now he's helping add ears as well. Wiens, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in the College of Science at Purdue University, and an expert in Mars robotics technology, led the team that built SuperCam, a device on the Perseverance Mars rover that includes a laser for zapping rocks  more