OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Amid the challenges that the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility faced in assembling and launching the world's first exascale-class (more than a quintillion calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier, one key component was hitch-free. Integral to Frontier's functionality is its ability to store the vast amounts of data it produces   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Helping hundreds of manufacturing industries across the United States increase energy efficiency requires a balance of teaching and training, blended with scientific guidance and technical expertise. It's a formula for success that researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been providing to the Department of Energy's Better Plants program for more than a dec  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: * * * DOE Outlines Multiple Efforts to Accelerate the Responsible Deployment of AI Technologies to Promote Innovation, Strengthen America's Energy and National Security, and Help Tackle the Climate Crisis * * * As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a series of actions delivering on key elements of the Executive Order on the Safe, S  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on April 29, 2024: Today, students from Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts, and BASIS Independent Bellevue in Bellevue, Washington won the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 34th National Science Bowl(R) (NSB) nationwide academic competition that tests students' knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. "Congratulations to the wonderfully brilliant minds from BASIS Independent Bellevue and L  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the following letter on April 29, 2024: * * * Department of Energy Activities Relating to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Fiscal Year 2023 Report to Congress April 2024 Message from the Secretary This is the U.S. Department of Energy's (Department or DOE), including the National Nuclear Security Administration, Fiscal Year 2023 annual report to Congress addressing the activities related to the Defense Nuc  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on April 29, 2024: As NETL's new associate director for Computational Sciences & Engineering (CSE), Tammie Borders knows the clock is ticking in the battle against climate change and understands the urgent need to expand the Lab's capabilities in high-performance computing (HPC) to find solutions. Tremendous strides have been made by world-class researchers in t  more

LIVERMORE, California, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will provide technical assistance to 30 disadvantaged communities in west Fresno County to provide a future in clean-energy projects, including carbon capture and storage. The project is part of the Department of Energy's Local Energy Action Program (LEAP) that aims to facilitate sustained community-wide economic and   more

AIKEN, South Carolina, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have completed canister storage modifications in one of two glass waste storage buildings (GWSB), effectively doubling that facility's waste storage capacity and avoiding construction of a third storage building. GWSB 1 consists of a below-g  more