WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Acting Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, N. Huntington, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending August 25, 2023 Solids Waste Operations Complex: The contractor determined that the Potential Inadequacy of the Safety Analysis process was inappropriately applied to the situati  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2023: * * * Breakthrough battery technology could ramp up domestic supply chain of critical minerals driving clean energy transition Key Takeaways * A new battery material called disordered rock salt (DRX) could pave the way for replacing gasoline vehicles with electric vehicles at a faster rate. * DRX cathodes could provide lithium-ion batter  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will partner with outside institutions to improve diversity in the STEM workforce and provide training to underrepresented students and researchers under a pair of projects recently funded by the Department of Energy. With support from DOE's Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) initiativ  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: CO2-SCREEN, a user-friendly, yet sophisticated tool developed by a team of NETL researchers to estimate the feasibility of storing captured carbon dioxide (CO2) in underground geological environments, continues to attract a wide range of international users as the world intensifies efforts to address climate change. To date, the CO2-SCREEN tool has bee  more