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December 3, 2024HALEU is enriched between 5% and 20% in U-235 and is required for most U.S. advanced reactors to achieve smaller designs.Office of Nuclear Energy
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December 2, 2024CIE resources are helping universities and researchers build CIE concepts into engineering curriculum and into research projects that shape future infrastructure designsOffice of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response
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November 27, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today released a new report focusing on distribution transformers in the electrical power grid. The report, prepared for OE by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), looks at the number of U.S. distribution transformer units, the number and capacity of the assets, their units’ current age profile, and how demand for distribution transformers might increase in the coming years.Office of Electricity
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November 27, 2024A typical nuclear reactor can provide enough power to cook around 2.5 million turkeys on Thanksgiving Day.Office of Nuclear Energy
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November 25, 2024Submissions open for innovative solutions for less conventional use cases for the Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2.Office of Electricity
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November 22, 2024DOE’s National Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) Strategy turned a game-changing concept into a strategic roadmap. Two years later, CESER has matured CIE into an industry-led practice that is beginning to change how we design energy infrastructure—now and into the future.Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response
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November 21, 2024For the first time in more than two decades, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers performed the nation’s first critical experiment using a ceramic fuel required by some advanced reactor designs.Office of Nuclear Energy
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November 21, 2024Prize will help utilities advance electric grid reliability and resiliency through digital data.Office of Electricity
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November 20, 2024The United States is going to need a lot of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) in the coming years to support the development and deployment of advanced reactors.Office of Nuclear Energy
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November 18, 2024Two companies are one step closer to testing reactor experiments in world’s first microreactor test bed.Office of Nuclear Energy