BWX Technologies announced on Wednesday that the company has begun the process to restart its existing TRISO nuclear fuel production line and is planning to expand its existing capacity within the next year.
Read More »Suzy Sterner Promoted to BWXT SVP for Government Relations; Rex Geveden Quoted
BWX Technologies has promoted Suzy Sterner to senior vice president of government relations, effective immediately, the company announced on Tuesday.
Read More »Johns Hopkins APL Receives DOE Quantum Tech Research Grant
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has secured a research grant from the Department of Energy to explore approaches for characterizing and mitigating quantum noise. APL said Monday the award is part of DOE's broader initiative to investigate the uses of quantum computing in relation to hardware.
Read More »Rob Johnson: Scientific Research Projects to Leverage Exascale Computing System ‘Aurora’
Rob Johnson, owner of Portland, Ore.-based marketing and communications consulting firm Fine Tuning, wrote in a Federal News Network commentary piece published Wednesday about the Aurora exascale computing system of the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and how it could help advance research across medicine, engineering, chemistry and other scientific disciplines.
Read More »MIT Receives IBM-Donated ‘Satori’ Supercomputer
IBM has donated a computer cluster valued at $11.6M to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help further the university’s artificial intelligence research work, MIT News reported Monday.
Read More »AECOM Concludes Hazard Cleanup at Old NY Nuclear Facilities; John Vollmer Quoted
AECOM has finished a decontamination and demolition effort to help Department of Energy eradicate chances of hazardous releases from old Cold War facilities.
Read More »DOE Issues First Small Biz Funding Opportunity Announcement for Fiscal 2020
The Department of Energy plans to award $31.5M in total research grants under the first phase of its Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs for fiscal 2020. Interested companies can propose technical feasibility studies to facilitate innovation across program offices under the DOE Office of Science, the department said Monday.
Read More »General Atomics Helps Develop Fusion Plasma Cooling Approach at DOE Facility
A multi-institutional team led by General Atomics physicist Houyang Guo has discovered an approach to manage the amount of heat within the interior walls of a tokamak the company operates for the Department of Energy.
Read More »General Atomics-Led Team Conducts Study on Fusion Reactor Erosion Damage
A team of scientists led by General Atomics has deployed modeling technology to discover the potential capacity of energetic ions to erode the internal portion of nuclear fusion tokamaks.
Read More »DOE Joins Public-Private Sector Consortium on Pipeline Infrastructure Security
Private sector entities have partnered with agencies such as the Department of Energy to form a consortium aimed at addressing industrial control system security issues in the nation’s pipeline infrastructure, Fedscoop reported Friday.
Read More »DOE’s ‘Summit’ Supercomputer Uses Nvidia GPUs for Propulsion System Research Effort
A Department of Energy supercomputer that deploys over 27K Nvidia graphics processing units has helped a Georgia Tech University-led team conduct early research into propulsion system development.
Read More »Cray, DOE Lab to Develop Exabyte Computer Storage Platform
Cray and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have signed a $50M agreement to produce an exabyte file storage for a supercomputing machine as part of a $600M project unveiled in May. The company said Monday it will integrate the ClusterStor technology into the Frontier computer being developed for ORNL.
Read More »AECOM, Toshiba Sign Nuclear Decommissioning Service Agreement; John Vollmer Quoted
AECOM and Japanese conglomerate Toshiba have agreed to jointly provide nuclear decommissioning services to Japan-based government agencies and utility companies under an alliance agreement between the two companies.
Read More »NVIDIA Tech-Based DOE Supercomputer Helps Geologists Study Earth’s Seismic Behavior
A Department of Energy supercomputer utilizing NVIDIA’s graphics processing units has enabled Princeton University scientists to research seismic phenomena with the aim of learning more about earthquake risks.
Read More »Lygos, Agile BioFoundry to Develop AI-Based Methods for Microbe Engineering Research
Lygos, a California-based biological engineering firm, has partnered with Agile BioFoundry to develop technology under a $2M grant from the Department of Energy that will analyze data from multiple fields of biology to gain new ideas for microbial engineering research.
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