From the Blog

EM team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for teardown in the near future.

Plans to replace diesel-generated steam with electrically generated steam at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) are getting a funding boost from a recent $5 million DOE Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies Program grant.

EM’s Office of River Protection awarded Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant contractor Bechtel National Inc. (BNI) approximately $9.5 million, or about 92%, of the available fee for work performed on the High-Level Waste (HLW) Facility last year.

Each March, EM takes an opportunity to celebrate and highlight the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women across the DOE complex.

More than 85% percent of a solar photovoltaic (PV) module is made of materials we already know how to recycle, like aluminum and glass. However, solar panel recycling—and recycling overall—is not currently cost-effective or widely adopted.

The KEK/J-PARC center upgraded the main ring accelerator and the neutrino beamline to increase the beam power, along with new neutrino detectors.

The head of the South Dakota Mines physics department, Richard Schnee, spent 2023 serving on the national particle physics panel, P5.

The layered crystal, CeSiI, with heavier-than-normal electrons is a new platform to explore quantum phenomena.

Repowering coal plants with nuclear power can lead to several economic and environmental advantages.

The findings are particularly puzzling because climate models have been predicting that the atmosphere will become more moist, even over dry regions.