Articles about Department of Energy

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AWS accelerator initiatives will offer $100M in credits to federal agencies for cloud and AI services

One program will support defense applications, the other will boost scientific research in fields ranging from biotech to quantum computing. Read More

Layoffs at PNNL impact 68 employees at national lab sites across Pacific Northwest

Battelle stated that “due to unforeseen business circumstances” the company was not able to provide 60-days notices to impacted workers. Read More

Interlune announces deals for moon mining equipment — and for selling lunar helium-3

Seattle-based Interlune provided a triple-barreled update today on its progress toward mining helium-3 on the moon and returning that resource… Read More

Trump layoffs hit Pacific Northwest engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford cleanup, elsewhere

The Trump administration’s government-wide layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at agencies in Washington state including the Pacific Northwest National… Read More

DOE announces $900M for next-gen reactors as Amazon launches nuclear power pursuit

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, joined government officials and energy-sector leaders today in Virginia to announce multiple agreements… Read More

Group14 lands $200M grant to build factory to make key ingredient for battery materials

Group14 Technologies announced today that it has received a $200 million grant to build a plant that will produce silane… Read More

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Zeno Power partners with U.S. Department of Energy to recycle radioactive material

Zeno Power says it has gained access to radioactive material destined for its first full-scale radioisotope power systems under the… Read More

Zap Energy lands $5M federal grant and ‘vote of confidence’ in pursuit of fusion power

Funding news: The Seattle area’s Zap Energy will receive $5 million from a newly launched federal program supporting the commercial… Read More

Bill Gates’ TerraPower wins $8.5M in federal funding for conversion of used nuclear fuel

BELLEVUE, Wash. — TerraPower, the Bellevue-based nuclear power venture co-founded by Bill Gates, has won an $8.55 million grant from… Read More

Bill Gates’ TerraPower makes its pick for next-gen nuclear power plant in Wyoming

TerraPower, the nuclear power venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has chosen a soon-to-be-retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming… Read More

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USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion design

Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies and its partners are among three teams winning $5 million contracts from NASA and the… Read More

TerraPower advances plans for next-gen nuclear plants, earning Bill Gates’ praise

BELLEVUE, Wash. — TerraPower, the nuclear energy venture that’s backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has gotten a boost on… Read More

Bill Gates’ TerraPower and GE Hitachi team up on proposal to build a new nuclear reactor for research

TerraPower, the nuclear energy venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is collaborating with GE… Read More

Backed by Bill Gates, TerraPower branches out into radioisotopes for cancer treatment

TerraPower, the nuclear research venture founded by Bill Gates, is joining with Isotek Systems and the U.S. Department of Energy… Read More

Pacific Northwest National Lab plays role in federally funded AI research center

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is joining forces with two other research powerhouses to pioneer a new $5.5 million research center… Read More

Help wanted: U.S. government is seeking advice from quantum computing experts

The U.S. Department of Energy is looking for experts to guide the White House and federal agencies through the weird… Read More

Cray to develop insanely fast $600M ‘El Capitan’ supercomputer for U.S. nuclear simulations

Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy,… Read More

Cray, Intel will build the first U.S. “exascale” supercomputer for the Department of Energy

The first U.S. supercomputer capable of processing 1 quintillion calucations each second will be built for the U.S. Department of… Read More

Northwest projects win a share of $20 million in federal grants for nuclear tech

Oregon-based NuScale Power is the big winner in today’s round of grants from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of… Read More

U.S. makes its pitch to wrest the world’s supercomputer top spot from China

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory staked its claim to retake the lead from China in the… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More