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The Department of Energy's laboratories help support American leadership in science and technology. The over 30,000 scientists and engineers at Energy Department laboratories are conducting breakthrough research in energy sciences and technology, high energy physics, superconducting materials, accelerator technologies, material sciences, and environmental sciences in support of the Department's mission. We're doing the work that helps us better understand the fundamental building blocks of nature -- from quarks and high energy physics to the properties of light and the structure of atoms.
The Department of Energy is working to assure clean, affordable, and dependable supplies of energy for our nation, now and in the future. That means increasing the diversity of energy and fuel choices and sources, bringing renewable energy sources into the market, strengthening domestic production of oil and gas, supporting commercial nuclear energy research, and increasing energy efficiency.
The Department of Energy has helped develop 3-D seismic oil drilling techniques and a safer more energy efficient replacement for halogen lamps. The Energy Star labeling program helps consumers choose household appliances and electronics that help save energy and money. The Clean Cities program is forging partnerships within communities throughout the country where communities purchase alternative fuel vehicles and build the needed service infrastructure for these vehicles.
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