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Every year since 1998, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos lab has been using state of the art technology to track Santa Claus as he circles the globe the night before Christmas. New Media Specialist Ginny Simmons sits down with Santa Tracker Head Re...

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced $20 million towards the research and development of non-conventional geothermal energy technologies in three areas: low temperatures fluids, geothermal fluids recovered from oil and gas wells and highly pressuri...

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The spacecraft used a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator to provide electricity and heat to the science instruments and other components.

A uniquely capable source of power is the radioisotope thermoelectric generator – a nuclear battery that reliably converts heat into electricity.