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The article offers information on the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science. It further mentions National Spherical Torus Experiment's (NSTX) magnet coils creating fields; views of Joseph Winston, technician at the PPPL, on issue; and plans of U.S. to build a prototype power plant in the 2030 as a successor to ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).

The article discusses that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has begun a new competition for the contract to run the country's only dedicated particle physics laboratory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which failed an annual DOE performance review. The reasons include cost increases and delays in a huge new neutrino experiment. DOE has solicited letters of interest and will issue a request for formal proposals in the summer of 2023.

The article reports that the United States Congress legislature approved the climate, health care, and tax reform bill in August 2022. It mentions that physics projects and national laboratory infrastructure were funded through the United States Department of Energy (DOE), and discusses the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) funding strategy for projects.

The article offers information on the Energy Innovation project. Topics include Department of Energy (DOE) will soon wipe away a legacy of Steven Chu who served as secretary of energy under former President Barack Obama, Chu compared the hubs to the Manhattan Project, the World War II scramble to make an atomic bomb, and like the bomb project, they were meant to be ad hoc, temporary efforts at the University of Arizona.

The article discusses the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) efforts to reinvent its research culture through the funding of a series of energy innovation centers designed to meet the nation's energy challenges, called energy innovation hubs. Topics include the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, the DOEs problem-oriented approach to energy research, and a chart providing information on several DOE research institutes including the CASL, Ames Laboratory's Critical Materials Institute in Iowa, and energy efficient buildings (EEB).

The article discusses that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) select site for the Electron- Ion Collider (EIC). It mentions that machine would enable nuclear physicists to probe the mysterious structure of the proton; views of Paul Dabbar, DOE's undersecretary for science, on issue; and also mentions about the numerous quarks and exchanging quantum particles called gluons that carry the proton's momentum.

The article reports on the plan of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to launch an initiative to address the climate crisis and to increase diversity in the scientific workforce in 2021. Topics discussed include the ability of the proposed urban integrated field laboratories (IFL) of DOE to foster collaboration with minority-serving universities, the need for the DOE to help improve the research capacity of minority institutions, and the political risk taken by the DOE with its plans.

The article discusses the physics laboratory Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota and the risks involved in the state's investment in the project as of July 2012. Topics include how South Dakota officials hoped to construct a national laboratory funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and how chemist Raymond Davis Jr. measured neutrinos in a mine shaft. Additional information is presented on U.S. Department of Energy projects which received funding from states for laboratories and research facilities.

The article discusses a rebirth of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, née Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and its use of an X-ray laser, reportedly the world's first. It notes director and particle physicist Persis Drell and SLAC's redefined mission including X-ray studies, materials science, and structural biology. Relations between SLAC and the U.S. Department of Energy, its owner, are noted. The X-ray laser, called the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), was started on April 10, 2009 and experiments reportedly were initiated a week before publication of the article. Criticism by unnamed particle physicists is noted regarding the decision to abandon SLAC's last particle collider called PEP-II.

The article talks about scientists searching for dark matter and not finding it in a favored dark matter candidate weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). It talks of physicists meeting at the University of Maryland, College Park to mull ideas for dark matter experiment sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. It also makes a mention of Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility supporting these experiments.

The article discusses the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) role in researching neutrinos, antiparticles and nuclear decay. An overview of the DOE's nuclear physics budget, including its forecast to increase above the rate of inflation, is provided.

The article discusses controversy about the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear test reactor Versatile Fast Neutron Source. Topics include the proposal to build the reactor at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the economic costs of transmuting uranium into plutonium, and the relation of nuclear energy to a transition toward renewable energy sources.

The article offers information on collaboration of scientists studying the afterglow of the big bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It is noted that a concept definition team, convened by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), will outline science goals and technological requirements for the project, called CMB stage 4 (S4).

The article discusses legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar Smith, chair of the House of Representatives science committee, that would alter federal research policy. Topics include opposition to the bill from scientists, academics and Congressional Democrats; research areas the bill would restrict funding for or prevent the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DOE) from studying; and a measure blocking the government from using DOE research findings.

The article reports on the poor condition of the U.S. research effort in fusion to generate energy using the same process that powers the sun. It is informed that the research is in complete disarray due to a rift between officials in the Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program and the research community it supports.

The article focuses on efforts made my scientists to find unseen dark matter after failure in searching for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Topics discussed include theorist Jonathan Feng's views on the research, a workshop on dark matter experiment for physicists at the University of Maryland at College Park sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, and Higgs bosons and neutrinos particle connecting to the dark sector.

The article presents an overview of the impacts of U.S. federal budget sequestration on research agencies in 2013. National Institutes of Health (NIH) reduced funding of research grants and cancelled clinical trials, leading to layoffs at research institutions. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded fellowships, interdisclipinary research, and construction while cutting spending in other fields. The Department of Energy (DOE) was able to avoid cuts and layoffs, but limited new projects.

The article looks at the state of particle physics research in the U.S., with particular focus on the Snowmass conference to be held in August 2013 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. It is noted that particle physics research spending by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) has declined by 15 percent over the previous ten years. The planned Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) project at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois is described.

The article discusses the legacy of director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Nobel-prize winning scientist Steven Chu. Chu offered his letter of resignation in January 2013, after four years in office. Topics include an overview of the issues addressed by Chu in his letter, such as the DOE's accomplishments, its future, and its efforts at expanding research programs aimed at developing cleaner energy technologies, the mixed results of his tenure as DOE's director, such as his support of basic research related to energy, but his poor political skills, and DOE budget issues that plagued Chu's ability to advance energy research and led to the shelving of particle physics, nuclear physics, and fusion research programs.

The article focuses on research into quark-gluon plasma and the development of a quark-gluon plasma model. It states that the only two atom smashers that can generate quark-gluon plasma are the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHID) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, and comments that the RHID is dedicated to studying quark-gluon plasma. It mentions the U.S. Department of Energy may be forced to shut down the RHIC due to limited funding. It comments that quark-gluon plasma is generated when two heavy nuclei are smashed together to form a plasma of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons before it cools into ordinary particles.

The article discusses the impact of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) budget constraints on the future of a proposed 1.9 billion dollar flagship experiment, called the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. Topics include a request by DOE officials for a plan by Fermilab officials to construct the LBNE one piece at a time, the importance of the LBNE to both Fermilab and neutrino research, and a chart showing the original plan, what parts of the plan are affordable, and what parts of the plan are too expensive or not worth pursuing.

The article reports that funding for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York is endangered by budget cuts for 2013 at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Officials at the DOE Office of Science fear that budget constraints will force them to close RHIC or the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) in Newport News, Virginia, or cancel the construction of Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) in East Lansing, Michigan. Scientists at RHIC point to their research into quark-gluon plasma as a reason to continue their funding.

In this article the author discusses the impact on research at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as a result of ideological differences among members of the U.S. Congress. He notes that despite congressional support for funding to the DOE, ideological differences remain regarding what type of research should be funded. Topics include disagreement between U.S. president Barack Obama's administration and Republicans in the House of Representatives regarding funding for the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which is working on developing clean technologies, and how a financial commitment made by the DOE's Office of Science to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITBR) in Cadarache, France, is impacting the DOE's overall budget.

The article discusses the cost of constructing an underground particle physics laboratory in the U.S. by the Department of Energy (DOE). According to a DOE report submitted to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), the cost of converting the abandoned Homestake gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota would range between $1-2 billion. According to the author, the cost arises from a combination of the $875 million that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) would spend to convert Homestake into a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) plus the money spent by DOE to conduct experiments there.

The article discusses a U.S. budget cut associated with a fiscal 2011 continuing resolution (CR) approved by the U.S. House of Representatives that would curtail research spending by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Ten U.S. laboratories and hundreds of universities reportedly would be affected by the proposed budget cut. The article indicates that enactment of the legislation, pending U.S. Senate approval, would affect DOE research well beyond that associated with clean energy, characterized as the focal point of the budget cut among Republican party congressmen who support it.

The article discusses the future of particle physics research in the U.S. in the aftermath of the shutdown of the Tevatron particle collider located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). The recent history of the planning and budgeting of U.S. particle physics research by the U.S. Department of Energy is discussed, including delays and expenses that hinder implementation. A chart is presented on categories of future physics research and their leadership by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, Fermilab, and within the U.S. physics community.

The article reports that the 2008 U.S. government aid program supports the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) by focusing on jobs before research. Lobbyist Michael Lubell and congressional staff gave emphasis on the importance of using the budget on workforce as well. The report shows that the there was a high employee layoff in December 2008 due to small budget increase which only ended in late May 2008 after a donor gave $5 million to the University of Chicago to be spent in Fermilab. An alleged political benefits of the laboratory is also presented. Furthermore, high-energy physics gets $32 million to be spent at Fermilab while the ITER, a fusion reactor experiment being built in France, gets a $15-5 million slice on the supplemental.

The article outlines the termination of National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) by the Department of Energy (DOE) at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey. The project was stopped because the stellarator's budget had exploded. In 2001, when the project was still proposed, it only cost $58 million due to be completed in 5 years that is 2009 but in April 2008, a DOE review unveiled that the cost had ballooned to $170 million and the machine could not be completed until 2013 at the earliest. Donald Rej, a plasma physicists at PPL and NCSX project manager was disappointed to hear the news because of them have put a fraction of their careers into the project.

The article reports on Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's plan to lay off seven percent of their staff due to decreased funding. According to the report, officials of the particle physics laboratory submitted their final plans for the layoffs to the U.S. Department of Energy on April 25, 2008. The layoff will cease about 140 scientists, engineers, technicians and other staff of the research laboratory. Cuts were forced when the U.S. Congress passed a budget for fiscal year 2008 that slashed the lab's funding from a requested $372 million to $320 million, $22 million less than it had received the previous year.

The article reports on the budget problem of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that affects the Basic Energy Science (BES) programs. Malcolm Stocks, a theoretical physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and his team has applied to the DOE for a $3 million grant, but legislators removed most of the requested increase for its Office of Science as part of an omnibus spending bill to fund most government agencies. The decision of the legislators affect the BES program proposal to pursue the use-inspired science of solar energy, hydrogen fuel, and advanced nuclear reactors.

The article reports on the increase in the budget allocated to National Science Foundation (NSF) after over four months of process by the U.S. Congress. The new budget, which was approved by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has about $344 million increase on their $4.4 billion research budget which is highly needed for 2007 plans. Aside from this, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy's science programs had also received a good allocation with $620 million and $ 200 million respectively. Meanwhile, NSF Director Arden Bement plans to start renovation on three major research facilities in his 2007 budget.

The article focuses on the concern of the U.S. Department of Energy on fusion energy. The $5 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) topped a list of 28 major new research facilities that DOE hopes to complete over the next 20 years. Researchers and policy experts are applauding DOE for tackling the difficult task of setting priorities across disparate disciplines, saying that a clear road map could help inspire Congress to boost DOE's stagnating $3.3 billion science budget. And although budget watchers say the plan's funding assumptions may be a little hopeful, many scientists are just happy that projects they support made the list.

The article looks at attempts to finance particle physics research in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, after the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) rejected its 1.9 billion dollar budget. The LBNE project was reconfigured to include collaboration with researchers in India and Europe. The plan calls for the building of a particle detector to research the charge conjugation parity (CP) violation phenomenon.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has stopped the development of a flagship project at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Femiilab) in Batavia, llinoism, citing budget constraints. Topic include an overview of the project, called Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), and concerns by U.S. physicist that a delay of LBNE will enable Japanese physicists to do a similar experiment first.