The U.S. Department of Energy issued topics for Phase One of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. These topics aim to advance the development and commercialization of new ideas and research from small businesses that can drive innovation.

This week's awards: CEML's Nevada Gold Mines Solar PV Project – Decarbonizing Gold Mines in Nevada; ERA's Clean Energy and Efficiency for Dallas County Alabama Schools; IDP's First Commercial Electrochemical Cement Manufacturing; LDES' Rural Energy Viability for Integrated Vital Energy (REVIVE)

Learn how Kristine Moody, a molecular ecologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developed an intense curiosity about aquatic creatures, leading to a career in water power.

The people that build, operate, and maintain nuclear power plants are highly trained, hard-working, and well-paid. But you don’t have to be an engineer to work in nuclear energy.

Industrious series: Meet Corey Tyree, who shares in Q&A interview how curiosity led him from a rural town into engineering.

Approximately $160,000 in funding will support market research to better understand the current and future ICS and OT cybersecurity workforce landscape.

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FOIA Appeal: Adequacy of Search, Denied

Crews at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently completed the single largest demolition project in Idaho Cleanup Project history three months ahead of schedule and under budget.

The numbers are in, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management shipped the largest volume of its transuranic waste for disposal from the Savannah River Site in a decade during the past fiscal year ending Sept. 30.