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The benefits of nuclear science and technology apply to energy, medicine, agriculture and more. A unique workshop near Houston was designed to help African educators create curriculums that expand the nuclear career prospects of African students.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has saved $11.7 million by processing and reusing soil already excavated on-site for new building foundations, roads, and utility and stormwater

stormwater

Rainwater or melted snow that runs off streets, lawns and other sites.

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lines. This program stands to save the Lab significant money for years to come while avoiding 1,850 round trips for trucks on the roads, saving 19,300 gallons of diesel and eliminating 428,000 pounds of carbon dioxide

carbon dioxide (CO2)

An important heat-trapping gas, also known as a greenhouse gas, that comes from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), from wildfires, and natural processes like volcanic eruptions.

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emissions.

Twenty-nine years ago, Vahan Gevorgian was a postdoctoral researcher studying wind and hybrid energy systems at the State Engineering University of Armenia when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented itself.

Every year, the National Renewable Energy

renewable energy

Renewable energy comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind. Renewable energy can be used for electricity generation, space and water heating and cooling, and transportation.

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Laboratory (NREL) hosts hundreds of interns within various departments across the laboratory. While at NREL, interns work on diverse projects and specialties, but they all have one thing in common: They rely on a mentor to get the most out of their internships.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Amazon, the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide since 2020, are working to modernize GHG emissions quantification using higher-resolution data and longer-term modeling.

North America’s 2021 heat wave was Washington’s deadliest weather-related disaster, claiming over 100 lives in the evergreen state and many others in neighboring regions. Scientists not only suggest that such heat waves will grow more intense and strike more often—in new work, they reveal the underlying mechanism behind these strengthened heat waves.

The 2023 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will be held from December 11 to 15 in San Francisco, California, as well as online. With more than 25,000 attendees expected, the meeting might feel overwhelming. We make it easy for you to find Atmospheric System Research (ASR)-related presentations, meet up with colleagues, and discover new connections during the event.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for Building EPSCoR-State/DOE-National Laboratory Partnerships. These partnerships advance the understanding of the physical world by supporting fundamental, early-stage energy research collaborations with DOE National Laboratories.

About three years ago, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers Robynne Murray, Nicholas Rorrer, and their team set out on a mission to make an easily recycled resin to serve as the central glue holding a wind turbine blade together.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers, along with scientists from more than a dozen institutions, have completed a first-of-its-kind high-resolution assessment of carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (CDR) in the United States.

Solar and wind power may be free, renewable fuels, but they also depend on natural processes that humans cannot control. It’s one thing to acknowledge the risks that come with renewable energy: the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, but what happens when the grid loses both of these energy sources at the same time?

Seventeen scientists from across the world have been awarded Exploratory Research funding from the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). The fiscal year 2024 awardees represent a range of research projects focused on aerosols,

aerosols

Small particles or droplets, such as wildfire smoke, volcanic gases, or salty sea spray, that float in the air. They are emitted by both natural events and human activities.

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plastic pollution, methane

methane

A hydrocarbon that is a primary component of natural gas. Methane is also a greenhouse gas (GHG), so its presence in the atmosphere affects the earth’s temperature and climate system

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production, and global climate change.

climate change

A change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time.

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