Department of Energy

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DOE awards $7.4M for energy projects at Sandia National Laboratories

June 28, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions has awarded $7.4 million to develop seven projects at Sandia National Laboratories aimed at advancing clean energy technologies. Vanessa Chan, the Chief Commercialization Officer and director of DOE’s OTT office, announced the funding at an event in Albuquerque on...

Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, commercialization, Department of Energy, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Labs, technology transfer

Sandia cooks material-storage containers to assess fire safety

November 16, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A team at Sandia National Laboratories has completed a series of tests on specially designed stainless-steel containers used by the Department of Energy for storage and transportation of hazardous materials. The engineers, technologists and project managers were surprised to find that the containers did not split open...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: containers, Department of Energy, hazardous material storage and handling, hazardous materials, safety, Thermal Test Complex

DOE Early Career award sends Sandia quantum computing expert’s research to new level

August 4, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Kevin Young believes that he can improve the performance of modern quantum information processors, and now the Department of Energy Office of Science has named him to their Early Career Research Program, awarding him a grant to continue his work. The program, now in its 11th year,...

Categories: Awards

Topics: Department of Energy, Early Career Research Program, kevin young, Office of Science

Sandia National Laboratories’ Kevin Young was selected by the Department of Energy Office of Science for its Early Career Research Program.

700,000 submunitions demilitarized by Sandia-designed robotics system

February 21, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized, built and programmed by Sandia National Laboratories engineers. “This is by far the most complex, automated robotic demilitarization system that Sandia has built in the last...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Army, automated system, automation, demilitarization, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, DoD, DOE, MLRS, Multiple Launch Rocket System, robot, robotics, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Labs

Early biologists catch the bird … and lizard … and snake

October 25, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Its heart beating rapidly, a wild gray flycatcher sits in the palm of a steady hand, making side-eye contact and shaking, waiting for just the right moment to escape from its perceived human predator. Mere seconds are filled with fear, connection and protection, and the moment is...

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: amphibians, Animals, avian, birds, callan pope, Department of Energy, Ecology, Ecology Program, evan fahy, Kirtland Air Force Base, matthew baumann, reptiles, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, steve cox, Wildlife Biologists

Sandia honored for fighting Ebola, analyzing emerging biotechnologies

April 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The work of Sandia National Laboratories at the intersection of biology and national security, including lifesaving efforts during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, has been recognized by the Department of Energy. On April 11, Dmitri Kusnezov, chief scientist and senior adviser to the secretary of energy, visited Sandia...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: biodefense, biological threats, computer modeling, computer modeling and simulation, Department of Energy, DTRA, Ebola, International Biological Threat Reduction, national security, public health, secretary of energy, Secretary of Energy Appreciation Awards, transportation modeling

Paula Austin outside an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Dan Sinars represents Sandia in first energy leadership class

March 13, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dan Sinars, a senior manager in Sandia National Laboratories’ pulsed power center, which built and operates the Z facility, is the sole representative from a nuclear weapons lab in a Department of Energy leadership program that recently visited Sandia. Members of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: Department of Energy, fusion energy, leadership, pulsed power, z machine

Radiation security team from Sandia works behind the scenes at events to protect public

November 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Richard Stump has been to five Super Bowls and hasn’t seen a single pass, run or touchdown. Stump works security — a very special kind of security — at large public events. He’s a senior scientist on Sandia National Laboratories’ Radiological Assistance Program (RAP) team. He, along...

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: Department of Energy, first responders, NNSA, preventative detection, radiation detection, radiation protection, radiological assistance program, RAP, training

Algae raceway paves path from lab to real-world applications

February 2, 2016, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif.— In a twist of geometry, an oval can make a line. The new algae raceway testing facility at Sandia National Laboratories may be oval in shape, but it paves a direct path between laboratory research and solving the demand for clean energy. As the nation and California adopt...

Categories: Biology, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: algae raceway, Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation, BETO, bioeconomy, biofuels, clean energy, Department of Energy, Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, Sandia National Laboratories

Speeding up the hydrogen highway

December 16, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Drivers are seeing more hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) on the road, but refueling stations for those vehicles are still few and far between. This is about to change, and one reason is a new testing device being validated at California refueling stations that will greatly...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation

Topics: California Air Resources Board, Department of Energy, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, H2FIRST, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, hydrogen infrastructure, hydrogen refueling station, Hydrogen Station Equipment Performance Device, HyStEP, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Carbon sequestration research continues at Sandia Labs under Energy Department funds

September 15, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers are sharing a four-year, $12 million Department of Energy research contract on the long-term geologic sequestration of carbon, considered a key element in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The contract from the department’s Office of Science funds research by the Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: caprock, carbon sequestration, CO2, Department of Energy, DOE, Energy Frontier Research Center, greenhouse gas, Sandia National Laboratories

Solar test facility upgrades complete, lead to better capabilities at Sandia for power industry

November 13, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A recent overhaul of the Department of Energy’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility, operated by Sandia National Laboratories, is dramatically improving researchers’ ability to understand and use concentrating solar power. The $17.8 million upgrade to the NSTTF adds state-of-the-art test capabilities, and the resulting research is expected...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, concentrating solar power, Department of Energy, DOE, molten salt, national laboratories, NSTTF, Sandia, solar