WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF12707) on July 5, 2024, by transportation policy analyst Ben Goldman: * * * Options for Railroad Electrification and Decarbonization Introduction and Background Compared to most other modes of freight and passenger transportation, railroads consume energy more efficiently and pollute less. Nevertheless, because most trains rely on diesel engines for power, they can generate harmful air   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 9 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded $50 million in cooperative agreements to only two university consortia to support nuclear security and nonproliferation. LSU researchers will work with colleagues at 15 universities and eight national labs to develop AI models to protect the nation from nuclear threats while training a new genera  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, July 9 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release on July 8, 2024: * * * Kim Sawyer will serve as the lab's fifth director, succeeding Stuart Henderson * * * Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, today announced that Kim Sawyer will become the new director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, effective Aug. 2. Sawyer will serve as the lab's fifth director in its 40-y  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following weekly case summary for July 1-5, 2024: * * * Summarized Board Decisions No Published Board Decisions Issued. * * * Unpublished Board Decisions in Representation and Unfair Labor Practice Cases R Cases No Unpublished Board Decisions Issued. C Cases Bull Street the Movie, LLC (10-CA-299951) (https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4583d8b482) Summerton, SC, July 1, 2024. The Board denied the Respondent'  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: SCALE users from 85 organizations across 21 countries gathered online and in person at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory from June 5 to June 7 for the Eighth Annual SCALE Users Group Workshop. The SCALE software suite, developed and maintained by ORNL, is widely recognized for its modeling and simulation capabilities in nuclear safety analysis  more