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(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason said this afternoon that the Continuing Resolution (CR) for 2011 means there will be cuts in lab programs, but the funding picture for the rest of the year is not nearly as bad as some envisioned."Overall, I think it's a pretty good outcome," Mason said in a telephone interview...4/13
(Our Amazing Planet) Although the planet is warming overall, events of extreme cold are still likely to persist on each continent for the next century, researchers say...Investigators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used nine global climate models assuming moderate levels of greenhouse gas emissions (the gases that build up in the atmosphere and trap heat) to compare the climates of 1991 to 2000 with 2091 to 2100...4/12
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(Renewable Energy World) ...A new study by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory shows that the U.S. could add 12,600 MW of renewable power capacity to the grid by adding hydropower to 54,000 existing dams. Of the 84,000 dams in the U.S., only 3 percent are used to generate electricity, the study found. Most of that potential – 8,000 MW – is concentrated at 100 dams in the south and Midwest...4/13 |
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DOE
(Science)
Since early February, scientists supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science have been bracing for massive layoffs at the department's 10 national laboratories and the temporary closure of many of the large user facilities located there...4/12
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCar2: Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams that were selected to participate...4/13
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The vulnerability to an earthquake of the primary uranium processing center at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge underscores the need for a new facility built to modern seismic standards...4/13
(HPC Wire)
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that proposals are now being accepted for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program...4/13 |
National
(Wall Street Journal)
President Barack Obama asked Congress to adopt a mix of revenue increases and spending cuts to tame the nation's long-term budget deficits, in a combative speech that portrayed Republicans as backing "tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires" while demanding sacrifice from the nation's seniors, poor and the middle class...4/14
State & Regional
(The Tennessean) Law enforcement agencies in Tennessee, along with arts groups, those who help the poor, and numerous other public and private organizations that receive federal tax dollars would be competing for a smaller pool of funds, according to details of the budget deal for the rest of the fiscal year that emerged Tuesday...4/13
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