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PITTSBURGH, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) today applauded an agreement between the Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Northwest, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and U.S. Enrichment Corporation, Inc. (USEC) to keep the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which was slated for closure at the end of this month, open for an additional year. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO)...
PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company and the Missouri Electric Alliance led by Ameren Missouri today announced the formation of a utility participation group called the NexStart SMR Alliance. The Alliance is a consortium of current and prospective nuclear plant owners and operators and includes cooperative, municipal and investor-owned electric service providers, as well as public enterprises to advance energy security. Alliance members signed a...
WEST HARTFORD, Conn., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Legrand® announced a more than 20 percent reduction in energy intensity as the result of its first year as part of a Department of Energy (DOE) program to promote energy efficiency, realize energy and cost savings and spur job creation for communities across the United States. In its role as one of the world's largest manufacturers of electrical and data networking products for residential, commercial and industrial...
DALLAS, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ATERAS, a leading provider of solutions for legacy migration and modernization, announced today the successful implementation of a Natural Re-Host project for the Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River Operations Office (SR). DOE-SR* required a highly-capable, cost-effective solution to rehost their Natural Adabas systems on a Windows Server based platform. The answer was to use the Application Transparency Platform (ATP) from ATERAS....
PITTSBURGH, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A bill set to come before the U.S. House would gut health and safety standards at Department of Energy (DOE) weapons sites and put workers at DOE facilities, and residents of neighboring communities, at greater risk of exposure to hazardous materials and radiation. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO ) United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard raised those concerns in a letter sent...
Runner-Up Maryland Wins $15,000 in DOE Competition COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mesdi Systems Inc., a company founded by a team of six students from the University of Central Florida (UCF) developing precision electrospray modules to accelerate and improve the production of lithium-ion battery components, won the first annual ACC Clean Energy Challenge and the Department of Energy's $100,000 grand prize, competition officials announce today. The UCF...
Researchers take a 'test drive' on ANI testbed Climate researchers are producing some of the fastest growing datasets in science. Five years ago, the amount of information generated for the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report was 35 terabytes—equivalent to the amount of text in 35 million books, occupying a bookshelf 248 miles (399 km) long. By 2014, when the next IPCC report is published, experts predict that 2...
Lee Rannals for RedOrbit.com The U.S. Department of Energy has given the go ahead for a proposed 3.4 billion pixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to move on to the next step of development. Now that the project has received approval from the department, it will begin the engineering design, scheduling, and budgeting portion of the project. The telescope received a "Critical Decision 1" approval, making a big step toward being one of the widest, fastest and deepest view...
FAIRFAX, Va., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Analytic IT Services, LLC (GAITS) received an award from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory operated for the Department of Energy by Stanford University. The GAITS Team will provide Web Development and Technical Services at the SLAC lab in Menlo Park, CA. This marks the tenth DOE laboratory to which GAITS will provide quality IT services. The SLAC Web Development and Technical Services engagement is a firm-fixed price contract...
ST. LOUIS, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ameren Missouri, a utility company of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE), announced it has entered into an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company, a proven, global leader in nuclear energy and small modular reactor technology development, to exclusively support Westinghouse's application for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Small Modular Reactors (SMR) investment funds of up to $452 million. The investment funding, announced by the...
