WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Feb. 9, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public and stakeholder input on the Department's first ever agency-related Foundation. Authorized by President Biden's bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation (FESI) will support DOE to carry out its critical mission to ensure America's continued security and   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending January 20, 2023 Staff Activity: On Friday, a DNFSB headquarters team held a call with NNSA Field Office and DOE headquarters personnel to discuss the proposed methodology of c  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory is applying machine-learning algorithms to subsurface imaging that will impact a variety of applications, including energy exploration, carbon capture and sequestration, and estimating pathways of subsurface contaminant transport, according to new research published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. "The subsurface is   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: The world of disease modeling studies the dynamics of how susceptible individuals become infected and eventually recover, which gives rise to the classical Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model and its variations. In these models, an infected individual who does not ever recover is sometimes called a "zombie." A new variation of the Susceptible-Zombie-Removed (SZR) model add  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration reached an important milestone on the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project (LAP4), approving Critical Decision-2/3 - Approve Performance Baseline/Approve Start of Construction - for the 30 Base Equipment Installation subproject. LAP4 is an integral part of NNSA's plan to re-establish t  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Feb. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide -- a gas that is great at trapping heat, contributing to climate change -- is almost double what it was prior to the Industrial Revolution, yet it only constitutes 0.0415% of the air we breathe. This presents a challenge to researchers attempting to design artificial trees or other methods of capturing carbon dioxide directl  more