Kathryn Huff, the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy, will headline the Cleanup to Clean Energy industry day Wednesday at the agency’s Idaho National Laboratory.
Others speakers will include Lance Lacroix, who heads DOE’s Idaho operations office, Idaho National Laboratory director John Wagner, DOE Deputy Director of the Office of Management Ingrid Kolb, DOE General Counsel Sam Walsh and Idaho Department of Commerce Manager Jason Barnes.
Charles Oppenheimer, whose grandfather, J. Robert Oppenheimer oversaw development of the atomic bomb at what is today Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, will also speak about the Oppenheimer Project. The project’s mission is “advancing a safer future in the face of technological change.”
DOE recently posted the lineup for the all-day event at the lab’s meeting center.
DOE earlier this month issued requests for information from organizations interested in developing carbon-free electric power projects at both Idaho National Laboratory and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The agency is looking for companies that can develop non-carbon-emitting power projects of 200 megawatts or more on largely unused land on the agency’s nuclear cleanup sites.
