AIKEN, South Carolina, July 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: The Savannah River Site (SRS) received approval from the Department of Energy proceed with a new approach to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) disposition that will result in a lifecycle cost reduction of over $4 billion dollars and represents a more than 20-year acceleration over the current approach. Since 1995, the H Canyon chemical separations facility has been used to dissolve   more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on July 13, 2022: The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today issued Notices of Intent to fund two programs that will advance carbon capture demonstration projects and expand regional pipeline networks to transport carbon dioxide (CO2) for permanent geologic storage or for conversion into valued end uses, such as construction materials. The two programs - the Carbon Capture Dem  more

LIVERMORE, California, July 14 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: For the first time, scientists have shown that glaciers in the tropical Andes mountains have been in sync with polar ice extent in Antarctica and the Arctic for nearly a million years. New research by an international team, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist Christine Y. Chen, records glacier movement in the Southern  more

RICHLAND, Washington, July 14 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following news release: Cheap and abundant, sodium is a prime promising candidate for new battery technology. But limited performance of sodium-ion batteries has hindered their large-scale applications. Now, a research team from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a sodium-ion battery with greatly extended longevity in laboratory   more