WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- 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: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending August 12, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: F. Harshman, one of the Board's resident inspectors at Y-12, was onsite this week to benchmark oversight approaches for nuclear facil  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 31 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2022: The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected to lead an Energy Frontier Research Center, or EFRC, focused on polymer electrolytes for next-generation energy storage devices such as fuel cells and solid-state electric vehicle batteries. Announced recently by U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, the award wil  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (TNSrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2022: What would it take to decarbonize the electric grid by 2035? A new report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examines the types of clean energy technologies and the scale and pace of deployment needed to achieve 100% clean electricity, or a net-zero power grid, in the United States by 2035. This would be a major step  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced $6.4 million in funding for 18 projects to conduct early-stage research and development of decarbonization technologies and environmental remediation, and to develop strategies to enhance the engagement of minority-serving institutions on FECM-related research at eli  more