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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. 

BWX Technologies has promoted Suzy Sterner to senior vice president of government relations, effective immediately, the company announced on Tuesday. 

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.

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.

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.

AECOM has finished a decontamination and demolition effort to help Department of Energy eradicate chances of hazardous releases from old Cold War facilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.