WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing a lab call to develop the Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI), which will address critical gaps in data needs to evaluate energy storage, such as the lack of access to large and uniform sets of performance data that are necessary to accelerate the pace at which technology development can occur. ROVI will cre  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Oak Ride National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: Frank Harshman and Clinton Jones, resident inspectors SUBJECT: Oak Ridge Activity Report for Week Ending August 12, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: Frank Harshman traveled to Los Alamos National Laboratory this week for an objectivity visit. Building 9212: On Monday August 8, 2022 an unint  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Oak Ride National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director August 5, 2022 FROM: Frank Harshman, Clinton Jones, and Brandon Weathers, resident inspectors SUBJECT: Oak Ridge Activity Report for Week Ending August 5, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: Brandon Weathers completed his assignment as an Oak Ridge resident inspector and returned to DNFSB Headquarter  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist Elizabeth "Libby" Johnson (1921-1996), one of the world's first nuclear reactor operators, standardized the field of criticality safety with peers from ORNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her work came on the heels of two incidents involving nuclear materials that took the lives of two government researche  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced more than $31 million in funding for 10 projects to develop carbon capture technologies capable of capturing at least 95 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from natural gas power plants, waste-to-energy power plants, and industrial applications  more

MENLO PARK, California, Sept. 2 (TNSjou) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on Sept. 2, 2022: * * * Researchers at SLAC found that oxygen boosts this exotic precipitation, revealing a new path to make nanodiamonds here on Earth. * * * A new study has found that "diamond rain," a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously thought. In an earlier experiment, researchers mimicked the extre  more