LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: No need to worry, it is just a very small piece for scientific study. In December 2014, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. In December 2020, when the sample-return capsule successfully landed safely back on Earth with pristine pieces of Ryugu that it had collected, Lawrence Livermore Na  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, and P. Meyer, Hanford resident inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending August 5, 2022 Waste Treatment Plant: A plug used to close a bubbler opening became hung up on a fixed structural component while being moved to support a test activity for melter #1. Th  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Underground storage of hydrogen is a key research area associated with NETL's overall contribution to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hydrogen Shot. Renewable energy sources like wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass and geothermal are an increasing portion of the total energy supply mix and helping to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. However,   more