From the Blog

DOE awarded a UW-led team of synthetic biologists a $15 million grant to engineer microbial genomes that transform CO2 into high-value chemicals.

Since winning the Fish Protection Prize, three teams have further developed their innovative concepts, which have the potential to help modernize hydropower facilities and protect fish from water diversion pipes and dam intakes across the country.

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! In our latest Women in Defense Programs blog, meet Dr. Nina Rodriguez, a civil engineer who keeps NNSA’s production mission going, and celebrates #HHM by going to speak with and inspire students in local Hispanic communities

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) finished fiscal year 2022 (FY22) by exceeding EM’s goals for shipping radioactive waste offsite to permanent disposal facilities.

EM has released a web-based mapping tool called TRAC, or Tracking Restoration And Closure, that transforms data and other technical material about groundwater plumes at EM sites into relevant, easy-to-understand information.

EM led DOE’s Feds Feed Families (FFF) summer campaign this year by collecting and donating nearly 253,500 pounds of items for food banks and pantries to help people facing food insecurity across the U.S.

Decontamination and demolition (D&D) crews at EM’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site have begun demolishing Cold War-era buildings that supported the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion program beginning in the 1950s.

EM crews at Oak Ridge have cleared another excess, contaminated facility, opening land for reuse at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Local leaders from Paducah, Kentucky recently visited Washington, D.C. to meet with EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White and other senior DOE officials to discuss the post-cleanup future for the Paducah Site.

Consider the following heart-pounding scenario hundreds of employees responded to as part of the EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s (WIPP) recent annual emergency exercise.