From the Blog

On a humid Carolina morning, U.S. Forest Service staff from the Savannah River Site Forest walked the rows of seedling beds at a nursery in nearby Windsor, inspecting the next generation of trees destined to take root across one of the most actively managed forests in the South.

As Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management Tim Walsh kicked off the 12th National Cleanup Workshop today, he emphasized that the soon-to-be-named Office of Nuclear Restoration & Revitalization is conducting restoration projects with a sense of urgency and redeveloping former cleanup sites to bring tremendous impact to the local communities and the nation.

U.S. Department of Energy leaders traveled to South Korea and Japan to deliver a message: nations should look to the United States for affordable, reliable, and secure energy, and a dependable long-term partner.

SENTRY supports work to address challenges with energy risk quantification, industrial control system cybersecurity, decentralized asset management system cybersecurity, and counter-drone capabilities.

Advances in power electronics using modular, scalable, and adaptable power electronics building blocks can builds economies of scale to help domestic suppliers grow while lowering costs.

New executive order protects bulk-power system against national security risks and foreign-adversary threats.

Savannah River National Laboratory announced a cooperative research and development agreement with the company 3D Systems to accelerate innovation in additive manufacturing for advanced energy generation and national security applications.

A member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management leadership team recently meet with Yakama Nation elected leaders and staff to share EM’s vision to accelerate nuclear cleanup and hear tribal perspectives.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management successfully completed its first shipment of remote-handled transuranic radioactive waste for disposal from the Savannah River Site using new shipping packages.

Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil and Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management Tim Walsh are among the U.S. Department of Energy officials set to address the 12th Annual National Cleanup Workshop Sept. 14–16 at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Virginia.