WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Aug. 29, 2022: The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today issued a Request for Information (RFI) to help guide the implementation of $335 million in investments from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for lithium-ion battery recycling programs. Batteries are critical to powering clean energy technologies--from providing energy storage for the electric grid to z  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- 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 12, 2022 Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) Process: Tank Operations Contractor (TOC) personnel submitted a draft evaluation of the safety of the situation (ESS) to address the posit  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2022: According to the United Nations, less than a quarter of all U.S. electronic waste gets recycled. In 2021 alone, global e-waste surged at 57.4 million tons, and only 17.4% of that was recycled. Some experts predict that our e-waste problem will only get worse over time, because most electronics on the market today are designed for portability, not recy  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Safe large-scale geological hydrogen storage is important in the national drive to use hydrogen to attain net-zero carbon emission goals by 2050. Conclusive research to determine the effect of gas injections on the naturally occurring underground microbial community and geochemical reactions between hydrogen and rock mineralogy are critical research subjects in t  more