WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following article on May 6, 2024: * * * Abby Dernburg and Ramamoorthy Ramesh have joined the prestigious organization for scientists and engineers * * * By Aliyah Kovner Abby Dernburg and Ramamoorthy Ramesh, two senior faculty scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending April 19, 2024 Board's Technical Staff Activities: S. Abdi, R. Csillag, Z. Demeke, and J. Jarvis were onsite to review the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (LAW) configuration management program. The revie  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following article on May 6, 2024: * * * Scientists developed microcapacitors with ultrahigh energy and power density, paving the way for on-chip energy storage in electronic devices * * * By Alison Hatt In the ongoing quest to make electronic devices ever smaller and more energy efficient, researchers want to bring energy storage directly onto microchips, reducing the losses incurr  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed to Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas production. The technologies were developed through the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, a DOE Energy   more