Nuclear News & Updates

Executive Director Peter Davidson marked the the end of his tenure at the Department’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) with another major achievement for the program – the announcement that the Department will guarantee $1.8 billion in loans to three su...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management has a simple mission. Since the late 1980s, we have made tremendous progress in removing legacies of contamination from past operations on the Oak Ridge Reservation.

Since the beginning of the space race, the Energy Department and its National Labs have been supplying the space power systems and instruments that make missions across our solar system, and the discoveries they uncover, possible.

Explore the history of nuclear power systems in U.S. space exploration -- from early satellites to the moon, Mars and beyond.

In April 2015, Loan Programs Office (LPO) Executive Director Peter Davidson participated in the Obama Administration’s first presidentially-designated Business Development Mission to the People’s Republic China, led by Commerce Secretary Penny Prit...

A timeline of nuclear security at the Department of Energy from the Manhattan Project to present day.

"The Japanese ratification of the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) marks an important milestone towards creating a global nuclear liability regime that will assure prompt and meaningful compensation in the event of a nu...