WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a Request for Information (RFI) to determine how DOE could best leverage the Defense Production Act (DPA) authority invoked by President Biden to accelerate domestic production of key technologies, strengthen U.S. power grid reliability, and deploy clean energy. Following the President's actions in June, DOE and the White House have engaged with st  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- 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 September 16, 2022 Radiochemical Processing Laboratory (RPL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: A resident inspector observed a contractor team perform a readiness assessment (RA) fo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Duke University and other institutions studying Sphagnum moss have identified two new species in North America, and they are learning how evolution may affect the species' role in carbon storage. Researchers looking at moss samples from far-flung habitats used genome sequencing and advanced computation to identify d  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists recently demonstrated a low-temperature, safe route to purifying molten chloride salts that minimizes their ability to corrode metals. This method could make the salts useful for storing energy generated from the sun's heat. The experiment, detailed in Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, involved using thionyl chloride to remov  more