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March 15, 2017IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – On March 2, workers at DOE’s Idaho site celebrated the completion of transuranic waste retrieval activities at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project’s Transuranic Storage Area-Retrieval Enclosure (TSA-RE).Office of Environmental Management
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March 14, 2017The Department of Energy’s Wind Vision report assesses the potential economic and social benefits of a study scenario where U.S. wind power supplies 10% of the nation’s electrical demand by 2020, 20% by 2030, and 35% by 2050. It also outlines a roa...Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
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March 14, 2017In recognition of Women’s History month, the Office of Fossil Energy is spotlighting some of the many extraordinary women on our team. One of those is Ann Satsangi -- a General Engineer in the Government Affairs and Analysis group of the Clean Coal...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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March 7, 2017Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory invent new foam that adsorbs oil from water, is reusable, and pulls dispersed oil from the water.Energy.gov
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March 3, 2017Idaho Falls, Idaho - For more than 20 years, a gigantic building – covering seven acres of land at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho site – has been the temporary storage location for hundreds of thousands of containers filled with radioactiv...Office of Environmental Management
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March 1, 2017The addition of a record-setting 14.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy onto the grid made 2016 a historic year for solar, with a total of more than 42 GW now connected to our country’s electricity infrastructure. A new National Museum of American Histo...Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
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February 28, 2017OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is advancing toward Vision 2020 — its goal to complete cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) by 2020 and continue transferring the remaining land to private i...Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers are nearing completion of work at the 618-10 Burial Ground, where they removed waste from 80 vertical pipe units (VPUs)...Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) is making strides toward mitigating highly radioactive soil underneath the 324 Building near the Columbia River.Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017AIKEN, S.C. – EM is using vegetable oil as a low-cost remediation approach to accelerate chemically-contaminated groundwater cleanup at the Savannah River Site (SRS).Office of Environmental Management