Portal:Department of Energy/Section 1
Organization
The department announced a reorganization with new names of under secretaries in 2022.[1]
Facilities
- Ames National Laboratory
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Energy Technology Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
- Savannah River National Laboratory
- DOE/SNL Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
- Albany Research Center
- Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory – under NNSA designs/develops nuclear-powered propulsion for the U.S. Navy
- Kansas City National Security Campus
- Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory – under NNSA designs/develops nuclear-powered propulsion for the U.S. Navy
- National Petroleum Technology Office
- Nevada National Security Site
- New Brunswick Laboratory
- Office of Fossil Energy[3]
- Office of River Protection[4]
- Pantex Plant
- Radiological and Environmental Sciences Laboratory
- Savannah River Site—separate from Savannah River National Laboratory
- Y-12 National Security Complex
- Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
Other major DOE facilities include:[5][6]
Airstrip:
- Pahute Mesa Airstrip – Nye County, Nevada, part of Nevada National Security Site[7]
Nuclear weapons sites
The DOE/NNSA has federal responsibility for the design, testing and production of all nuclear weapons. NNSA in turn uses contractors to carry out its responsibilities at the following government owned sites:[8]
- Research, development, and manufacturing guidance: Los Alamos National Laboratory[9] and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[10]
- Engineering of the non-nuclear components and system integration: Sandia National Laboratories[11]
- Manufacturing of key components: The Kansas City Plant, Savannah River Site and Y-12 National Security Complex.[8]
- Testing: Nevada Test Site[8]
- Final weapon and warhead assembling and dismantling: Pantex[12]
References
- ↑ "DOE Optimizes Structure to Implement $62 Billion in Clean Energy Investments From Bipartisan Infrastructure Law" (in en). https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-optimizes-structure-implement-62-billion-clean-energy-investments-bipartisan.
- ↑ "Secretary of Energy Rick Perry Forms New Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response". February 14, 2018. https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-energy-rick-perry-forms-new-office-cybersecurity-energy-security-and-emergency.
- ↑ "Office of Fossil Energy". http://fossil.energy.gov/.
- ↑ "Office of River Protection". http://www.hanford.gov/orp/.
- ↑ "Locations". https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/locations.
- ↑ "Naval Nuclear Laboratory contract". 2018-07-01. https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/naval-nuclear-laboratory-contract.
- ↑ FAA Airport Form 5010 for L23 PDF, effective 2007-10-25
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "NMHB 2020 [Revised"]. https://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm//NMHB2020rev/chapters/chapter5.html.
- ↑ Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, for the U. S. Department of. "Our Customers" (in en). https://www.lanl.gov/about/leadership-governance/our-customers.php.
- ↑ "Weapons" (in en). https://www.llnl.gov/missions/weapons.
- ↑ "Sandia National Laboratories: National Security Missions: Nuclear Weapons". https://www.sandia.gov/missions/nuclear_weapons/index.html.
- ↑ "About Pantex Plant". http://www.pantex.com/about.