AIKEN, South Carolina, May 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: A group of high-school students studying construction and welding at the Barnwell County Career Center recently learned about career opportunities at one of the largest construction projects happening in the nation - the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The students and their instructors toured SRS to learn about the site's  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 1 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 16 New Mexico counties and neighboring counties in Arizona of the May 28, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic   more

ARGONNE, Illinois, April 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Groundbreaking report provides ambitious framework for accelerating clean energy deployment while minimizing risks and costs in the face of climate change * * * In the face of accelerating climate change, the U.S. aims to reduce the net carbon emissions of its economy to zero by 2050. Achieving this goal will require an unprecedented deployment of clean  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

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In the face of accelerating climate change, the U.S. aims to reduce the net carbon emissions of its economy to zero by 2050. Achieving this goal will require an unprecedented deployment of clean energy technologies, and a significant transformation of the nation's energy infrastructure. It is an exceptionally complex and daunting challenge. But it is not impossible i  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for week ending April 12, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending April 12, 2024 Staff Activity: D. Gutowski was on leave. M. Bradisse provided resident inspector coverage. Plutonium Facility-Emergency Management: This week, managem  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on May 1, 2024: * * * Manganese-rich sandstones indicate there were once habitable conditions in the Gale Crater * * * A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded a small business set-aside contract to provide Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning, and Removal (DD&R) services for EM sites, the National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Naval Reactors, and the Office of Science. The services to be acquired may be performed at var  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 (TNSfact) -- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued the following fact sheet on May 1, 2024: * * * As Part of the Inaugural National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month, Biden Cancer Moonshot Announces New Actions to Strengthen Preventive Cancer Care and Expand Accessibility of Cancer Screenings Today, the Biden Cancer Moonshot announced actions from across the Cancer Cabinet and the private sector, as well as employers and labor unions, to ex  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, academia and industry convened recently at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) for a workshop aimed at aligning strategies for ensuring safe artificial intelligence (AI). The daylong event, attended by dozens of AI researchers, included keynote speech  more