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(Physorg.com)
If the researchers are indeed successful, this work sets the stage for these exotic materials to be used in a wide range of fascinating and potentially technologically revolutionary applications, said Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Zac Ward, lead author of a paper published in Physical Review Letters. The problem lies in the fact that at low dimensions or when the material is under strain it loses the characteristics that make it valuable for use in nano-scale electronics...5/11
(U.S. State Department Press Release) ... The EcoPartnership Framework is aimed at developing new models of mutually beneficial voluntary arrangements between a range of state, local, and private sector organizations, to promote energy security, economic growth, and environmental sustainability in both countries...5/11 |
(Science Daily) Like gravity, the strong interaction is a fundamental force of nature. It is the essential "glue" that holds atomic nuclei -- composed of protons and neutrons -- together to form atoms, the building blocks of nearly all the visible matter in the universe...The final runs were performed on the Jaguar system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility with an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) allocation from the Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)...5/12
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DOE
(DOE Press Release)
The Department of Energy today released its 2011 Strategic Plan, a comprehensive blueprint to guide the agency's core mission of ensuring America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions...5/10
(DOE Press Release)
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $90.6 million loan guarantee to Cogentrix of Alamosa, LLC...5/10
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) TVA says it is working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to address the issues raised over the failure of a valve in the emergency cooling system at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant near Athens, Ala...5/12 |
National
(CS Monitor)
With the two parties dug in miles apart, Capitol Hill is bubbling with competing plans to bring down the deficit and raise the debt ceiling. And President Obama is taking a stronger hand to close the gap...5/11
East Tennessee
(AP) Twelve anti-nuclear protesters have been convicted of trespassing during a protest at Oak Ridge's Y-12 National Security Complex last year...5/11
(Oak Ridger) A group of graduate students from the University of Tennessee's College of Business Administration recently presented their ideas for revitalizing historic Jackson Square to Oak Ridge business leaders and city officials...5/11
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Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs