Holly Flynn, a researcher at EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), will receive $2.5 million over five years to fund research associated with fusion energy after being selected as a DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program awardee.
At the Sellafield site on the coast of Cumbria, England, remotely operated submersible vehicles perform inspection and manipulation tasks in ponds where spent fuel is stored.
Workers on the Hanford Site are preparing to cut into the dome of an underground waste-storage tank later this summer to get ready for future waste retrieval operations.
The Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team last week poured the first batches of glass forming beads, called frit, into a melter heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit.
More than 265 minority serving institutions (MSI) faculty and students, DOE personnel and Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) employees recently gathered for the EM Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (EM MSIPP) Achievement Workshop.
EM funding supports Energy I-Corps, a key initiative of DOE's Office of Technology Transitions (OTT). The program sends teams of researchers and industry mentors through an immersive two-month training where the researchers define technology value.
In just a few years, an intern has taken his interest in computer science to the next level in the EM program supporting contractors at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site with virtual reality and other technologies.
DOE on Friday kicked off its “Cleanup to Clean Energy” initiative, an innovative effort to repurpose parts of DOE-owned lands — portions of which were previously used in the nation’s nuclear weapons program — into the sites of clean-energy generation.
EM’s Paducah Site recently completed construction of a 3,500-square-foot facility to house its new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and provide continuity for emergency management.
Eight EM sites have been honored with the 2023 Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Purchaser Award, the most the cleanup program has won in a year since the program honoring purchases of sustainable goods began in 2015.