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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to provide funds for the construction and start-up of a manure digester at the Port of Tillamook Bay (POTB) Industrial Park, Tillamook County, Oregon. If approved, DOE would provide funding to construct this dairy digester that would produce the following marketable products; 295 kW of electric power from biogas, hot water used to maintain the temperature of the digester, and about 30 cubic yards per year of solids for composting.

Proposed Methane Energy and Agricultural Development Port of Tillamook Bay Dairy Digester Project

Report on the Department of Energy's Consolidated Financial Statements

Yucca Mountain Science and Engineering Report describes the results of scientific and engineering studies of the Yucca Mountain site, the waste forms to be disposed, the repository and waste package designs, and the results of the most recent assessments of the long-term performance of the potential repository. The scientific investigations include site characterization studies of the geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical environment, and evaluation of how conditions might evolve over time. These analyses considered a range of processes that would operate in and around the potential repository. Since projections of performance for 10,000 years are inherently uncertain, the uncertainties associated with analyses and models of long-term performance are also described, along with the likely impact of these uncertainties on performance assessment.

In September 2000, the United States and the Russian Federation entered into an agreement stipulating that each country will irreversibly transform 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium into forms which could not be used for weapons purposes. To meet the United States' commitment, the Department of Energy planned activities at its Savannah River Site; specifically, to immobilize 8.4 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium and to convert 25.6 metric tons into nuclear reactor fuel. The plan called for the design and construction of three major facilities at Savannah River: the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility, the Plutonium Immobilization Plant, and the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility. The Department's total estimated life cycle cost for these facilities was about $6.1 billion, of which about $400 million has been expended.

The Department of Energy's Strategy for Disposal of Plutonium

Presidential permit authorizing Northern States Power Company to construct, operate, and maintain electric transmission facilities at the U.S-Canadian border.

Presidential permit authorizing Northern States Power Company to construct, operate, and maintain electric transmission facilities at the U.S-Canadian border.

DOE/ EIS-0229-SA-02: Supplement Analysis (February 5, 2002) for Storage and Disposition of Weapons-Usable Fissile Materials.

In 2002, at the direction of the Secretary of Energy, EM conducted a self-assessment of the overall status of the program under DOE Order 435.1 Radioactive Waste Management, and found a number of areas that needed improvement, including contract strate...