WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, N. Huntington, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending February 2, 2024 DNFSB Staff Activity: R. Csillag and D. Montierth were onsite observing a cold run at the 242-A Evaporator facility as part of an ongoing Board's staff review  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Feb. 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Two NETL researchers were awarded a patent for improvements to laser technology that can be used to detect CO2 leaks more efficiently from underground carbon storage sites. The technology also holds potential for use as an online sensor in a range of other hostile environments that require environmental monitoring. NETL's Dustin McIntyre and Daniel Hart  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's managing contractor, UT-Battelle, presented a donation of $186,000 to Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development, or SEEED, to support the nonprofit's third green solar home as part of their Green Construction Program. "We are committed to serving the communities that we live in," UT-Battelle CEO and ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer sa  more