WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news on June 4, 2024: * * * Research will identify innovative practices that benefit communities and facilitate solar deployment * * * The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today invested $9.5 million in four new projects supporting social science research that examines the ways that siting practices can influence public attitudes toward and permitting of large-scale sola  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- 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 May 10, 2024 Board's Technical Staff Activities: R. Jackson and A. Velazquez-Lozado were on site to review Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) High-Level Waste Facility structural concrete placements. Fuels Fa  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, June 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL recently hosted a contingent of undergraduate students from colleges and universities in western Pennsylvania without large in-house research programs as part of an initiative to expand the talent pool of next-generation researchers with skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). "From a workforce development perspective, it was important to  more