Science

Rover POV – NASA’s First Five Years of Curiosity Driving on Mars

Background Five years of images from the front left hazard avoidance camera (Hazcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover were used…

August 9, 2017

Technology Forces at Work. Profiles of Environmental Research and Development at DuPont, Intel, Monsanto, and Xerox, 1998

Background The environmental literature recognizes the importance of involving multiple stakeholders in the environmental policy development process. Stakeholders include a…

July 28, 2017

Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) Briefing Material, Department of Defense

Background On May 13, 2016, Popular Mechanics published an article entitled, "Congress Is Suddenly Interested in Cold Fusion." David Hambling…

July 6, 2017

Operation Morning Light

Background Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented…

May 8, 2017

The Department of Agriculture and The Department of Health and Human Services Report to Congress on Thefts, Losses, or Releases of Select Agents or Toxins

Background The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act (P.L. 107-188) requires the Secretaries of Health and Human…

April 13, 2017

Decommissioning plans for the International Space Station (ISS)

Background The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its…

April 8, 2017

Rising to the Urgent Challenge Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change, September 2010

Background As a Service and Department we must act decisively, recognizing that climate change threatens to exacerbate other existing pressures…

March 9, 2017

The Department of Energy / Office of Scientific and Technical Information “Cold Fusion” Collection

The Department of Energy / Office of Scientific and Technical Information "Cold Fusion" Collection In 2015, the OSTI received a collection…

January 12, 2017

Project Orion – Nuclear Propulsion Concept

Background Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of…

December 22, 2016

Possible Determination of an Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence at Three Mile Island Unit 2, April 2, 1979

Background The following documents is a COMMISSIONER ACTION memo, labeled SECY-79-235 from Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,…

November 22, 2016