ARGONNE, Illinois, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * With the start of the construction period, the Advanced Photon Source is now only a year away from re-emerging as a world-leading X-ray light source. Its brighter beams will lead to new discoveries in energy storage, materials science, medicine and more. * * * A year-long effort to renew the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office   more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- 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, N. Huntington, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending March 24, 2023 Waste Treatment Plant (WTP): WTCC personnel are performing an inspection of the Low Activity Waste (LAW) Facility off-gas system following a carbon bed over-pressu  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release: To accelerate development of useful new materials, researchers are building a new kind of automated lab that uses robots guided by artificial intelligence. "Our vision is using AI to discover the materials of the future," said Yan Zeng, a staff scientist leading the A-Lab at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The "A" in   more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- 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 March 31, 2023 Staff Activities: R. Csillag and Z. Demeke attended the Maintenance Manager Working Group Meeting hosted at Y-12 this week. During the visit, they also conducted wal  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 18 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: As anyone who has lived near the ocean can attest, metal and sea mist are a recipe for corrosion. A nuisance of coastal life, the consequences of these common chemical reactions become far more serious when it is taking aim at the stainless-steel canisters that contain spent nuclear fuel. To shield steel from the corrosive threats posed by sea air, Sandi  more