WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management posted the following news on May 28, 2024: The annual National Environmental Justice Conference and Training Program, known as NEJC, focuses on the needs and challenges of communities, governments, municipalities, tribes, faith-based organizations, and others with an interest in environmental justice (EJ). The conference aims to examine the state of EJ, share best practices, and enhance community living in a healthy en  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: * * * Twenty-four Semifinalists Selected for DOE Historic Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Prize Will Create a Just and Sustainable Framework for Scalable Carbon Management and Help Develop a Carbon Dioxide Purchasing Market to Encourage Technology Innovation * * * As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda (https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced 24 se  more

AIKEN, South Carolina, May 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: The massive, unique vehicle used to transport highly radioactive canisters at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has completed an important pit stop to ensure continued, reliable movement of the site's liquid waste mission. The Shielded Canister Transporter (SCT) carries the stainless steel canisters filled with glassified, high- level radioactive waste, one at a time, from the De  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists from the University of California, Davis, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a sample holder that tumbles powdered photochemical materials within a neutron beamline. The rotating holder exposes more of the material to light for increased photoactivation and better photochemistry data capture. Conventional sample holders were unable to rotate, or t  more