Including replication in a DOE allows separation of experimental error into its components: lack of fit and random ( pure ) error.

In 1986, the DOE announced its Human Genome Initiative.

However, soon after using its power to designate two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, 14 senators signed a letter stating the DOE was being too aggressive.

LLNL's principal sponsor is the Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration ( DOE / NNSA ) Office of Defense Programs, which supports its stockpile stewardship and advanced scientific computing programs.

As a further protection, when DOE proposes a rulemaking, it must refer the proposal to FERC, and FERC can take over the proceeding if FERC determines that the rulemaking " may significantly affect " matters in its jurisdiction.

DOE also sponsors more research in the physical sciences than any other US federal agency ; the majority of this research is conducted through its system of United States Department of Energy National Laboratories.

On January 18, 2006, DOE OCRWM announced that it would designate Sandia National Laboratories as its lead laboratory to integrate repository science work for the Yucca Mountain Project.

On March 3, 2010, the DOE filed a motion with the NRC to withdraw its license application, however multiple lawsuits to stop this action have been filed by states, counties, and individuals across the country as being unauthorized by the NWPA.

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) decided that direct experimentation was the best way to settle the issue, and between 1978 and 1988 ran a series of underground experiments at the Nevada Test Site ( now known as Nevada National Security Site ), that used small nuclear bombs to directly illuminate ICF fuel components with high-energy X-rays ; LLNL ran its program under the name " Halite ", while LANL ran its as " Centurion ".

In July 2011, Kosrae DOE embraced the One Laptop per Child programme, distributing 720 " XO " computers to children in its public elementary schools, becoming the first State of Micronesia to do so.

Although BPA is part of the DOE, it is self-funded and covers its costs by selling its products and services at cost.

Due to DOE indemnification of its contractors, without some form of settlement being arrived at between the U. S. Justice Department and Rockwell the cost of paying any civil penalties would ultimately have been borne by U. S. taxpayers.

According to its subsequent publications, the Rocky Flats special grand jury had compiled indictments charging three DOE officials and five Rockwell employees with environmental crimes.

The DOE itself, in a study released in December of the year prior to the FBI raid, had called Rocky Flats ' ground water the single greatest environmental hazard at any of its nuclear facilities.

President George W. Bush signed House Joint Resolution 87 on July 23, 2002, authorizing the DOE to proceed with construction at Yucca Mountain, although the facility was not expected to accept its first shipments of radioactive materials before 2012.

DOE and its corporate partners are watched by a combination of local, regional and national regulatory agencies and citizen groups.

* 2004: The site shipped its 10, 000th drum of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ( WIPP ), a DOE facility in New Mexico, 12 years ahead of schedule.

In the 1950s Bendix and its successors managed Department of Energy ( DOE ) facilities in Kansas City, Missouri and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The British journal Nature entitled its article " Report backs whistleblower ", and also noted conflicts of interest on the part of a DOE panel that assessed IFR research.

In 2010, the DOE established, as one of its Energy Innovation Hubs, the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis.

The NREL was designated a national laboratory of the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) in September 1991 and its name changed to NREL.

If a project is registered and implemented, the EB issues credits, called Certified Emission Reductions ( CERs, commonly known as carbon credits, where each unit is equivalent to the reduction of one metric tonne of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > e, e. g. CO < sub > 2 </ sub > or its equivalent ), to project participants based on the monitored difference between the baseline and the actual emissions, verified by the DOE.

As of 2010, 11 remain open, mostly due to safety improvements and help from international safety agencies such as the DOE.

Other U. S. federal government agencies based in the county include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), the National Naval Medical Center ( NNMC ), U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ).

In response to an energy crisis, Congress passed the DOE Organization Act in 1977, which consolidated various energy-related agencies into a Department of Energy.

In that context, GAO reviewed ( 1 ) the extent to which the Department of Transportation ’ s ( DOT ) and Department of Energy ’ s ( DOE ) assessment process helps ensure advisory group efforts are not duplicative and what challenges, if any, exist in assessing potential duplication, and ( 2 ) to what extent DOT and DOE advisory groups are useful in assisting their respective agencies in carrying out their missions and how the groups ’ usefulness could be enhanced.

Bonneville, whose headquarters are located in Portland, Oregon, is one of four regional Federal power marketing agencies within the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ).

In addition to NSF sponsorship, funding includes grants from and contracts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the Department of Defense ( DOD ), Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ), Department of Energy ( DOE ), Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), and other agencies and organizations.

Examples of these agencies include the Department of Energy ( DOE ) and the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ), which is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.

External agencies like the DST, ISRO, AICTE, DOE, DRDO, MOD and the state Government support this department through research projects and fellowships.

Most of the land is now publicly held by federal agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) in the Department of Interior and the Department of Energy ( DOE ).

It was in the late 1980s and early 1990s that the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) conducted a joint program with the industry and State agencies to demonstrate these technologies large enough for commercial use.

Some of the U. S. sites were smaller in nature, however, cleanup issues were simpler to address, and DOE has successfully completed cleanup, or at least closure, of several sites.

While a nuclear penetrator ( the " Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator ", or " RNEP ") was never built, the U. S. DOE was allotted budget to develop it, and tests were conducted by the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

* The earliest known instance of hacktivism as documented by Julian Assange is as follows: Hacktivism is at least as old as October 1989 when DOE, HEPNET and SPAN ( NASA ) connected VMS machines world wide were penetrated by the anti-nuclear WANK worm.

In March 2007, under the Megaport initiative, three RPMs ( Radiation Portal Monitors ) were already installed in Puerto Cortés by U. S. DOE in order to inspect all containers with destination to USA, checking for possible dangerous radioactive threats.

Before the complaints were raised in 2008, 2006 federal court had required the DOE to update and tighten misleading Energy Star ratings given to products in almost two dozen categories, including dishwashers, air conditioners, heaters, furnaces and clothes dryers.

When the DOE officers arrived, they were served with a search warrant.

The functions were then transferred to the Department of the Environment ( DOE ), and in 1995, PRONI became an executive agency within the DOE.

A January 2005 report by the DOE stated that radioactivity levels were normal at the surface and in groundwater, though a later report due in 2007 is expected to more fully explore if there is subsurface contamination and whether or not radioactivity is still spreading outward from the blast site itself.

The financial aid staff hired by Molina and Leite were unable to fix the files, which were in complete disarray, to conform to DOE standards, and DOE investigation also revealed that the school failed to keep required records and could not account for large amounts of federal financial aid funds.

Due to the unique dual DOD / DOE superiors of the position, succeeding Directors of Naval Reactors ( NAVSEA 08 ) were given extended tour lengths ( eight years ) as well.

) Irradiated nuclear fuel from other Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) and Department of Energy ( DOE ) facilities from around the country were shipped to SSFL to be decladded and examined.

Through a variety of more complicated circumstances, the DOE case began to wane, as it became clear that some of the data they were attempting to claim as " secret " had been published in a students ' encyclopedia a few years earlier.

Solar Two's 3 primary participants were Southern California Edison ( SCE ), the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ( LADWP ), and the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ).