IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Center for Used Fuel Research selects two technologies for demonstration of automated used nuclear fuel canister monitoring The U.S. Department of Energy's Center for Used Fuel Research has selected Guidedwave and Sensible Photonics to advance to the final phase of a selection process to demonstrate acoustic emission technologies for automated monitoring of used nucle  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, June 3 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Turbo-charging battery research with AI: An ambitious vision Tapping the enormous potential of large language models - Argonne researchers outline a comprehensive technical roadmap for the use of large language models in battery research. Scientists envision batteries will play a central role in improving the security and cost-effectiveness of America's e  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following activity report for week ending May 8, 2026: * * * Hanford Site Resident Inspectors Activity Report for Week Ending May 8, 2026 Low Activity Waste (LAW) Facility: An outside contractor, Airgas, delivers ammonia to the B23 storage tanks approximately every six months, with the offload procedure developed and controlled by WTCC. While employees were venting the delivery hose into  more

LIVERMORE, California, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Analyze an asteroid sample in the latest episode of the Big Ideas Lab In the early 2000s, a team of planetary scientists at NASA began planning something audacious. They would build a spacecraft. Aim it at an asteroid. Launch it across more than a billion miles of space. Map the asteroid's rugged terrain at an unprecedented, centimeter-level resolution. Hover   more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following article: * * * PNNL Researchers Achieve High-Level Quality of Service * With the computing crunch caused by the generative AI (GenAI) boom, it's more important than ever for scientific workflows to intelligently divvy out power. Now, a research team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has successfully tackled the difficult task of scheduling scientific workflows while guara  more