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(Science Daily)
Billions of dollars lost each year as waste heat from industrial processes can be converted into electricity with a technology being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory...5/16 |
(R&D Magazine) ...To get a better understanding of these silver compound ionic liquids, Eugene Mamontov, lead instrument scientist on BASIS, the Backscattering Spectrometer at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, used quasielastic neutron scattering to probe the diffusion dynamics at the microscale that characterize these new solvents...5/16
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Despite the budget-cutting frenzy ongoing in Congress, there was support at Monday’s Tennessee Valley Corridor conference for the Obama administration’s pledge to seek $85 billion in funding to build a premier uranium facility at Y-12 in Oak Ridge...5/17
(DOE Press Release)
As part of the Partnership to Advance Clean Energy announced by President Obama and Prime Minister Singh of India last November, the Department of Energy has committed $25 million over the next five years to support the U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center...5/16
(Oak Ridger) Trains were the primary means of long-haul transportation in the 1940s. Many trains brought building materials to Y-12 and other Manhattan Project sites in Oak Ridge...5/13
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National
(Wall Street Journal) The U.S. and Pakistan are engaged in a billing dispute of sizable proportions, sparring behind closed doors over billions of dollars Washington pays Islamabad to fight al Qaeda and other militants along the Afghanistan border...5/16
(CNN)
China's holdings of U.S. government debt inched lower for the fifth straight month...5/16
State & Regional
(The Tennessean)
The Tennessee Valley Authority, which has touted the safety of its nuclear reactors amid a continuing crisis in Japan, suffered a cooling system shutdown for 40 minutes Thursday after electricity shorted out at a Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant reactor...5/17
(Memphis Commercial Appeal)
President Barack Obama would admit Monday that he is a man who "gets all choked up" at graduation ceremonies...5/16 |
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energy & science policy
(AIP) Last week the House Appropriations Committee started to draft its FY 2012 funding bills. Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) announced a schedule that would send the bills funding the Department of Energy, NASA, National Science Foundation, NIST, Department of Defense, and U.S. Geological Survey to the House floor before the August 6 recess...5/16
5/16 A daily report on U.S. energy policy
[ORNL users only]
- Obama drilling plan praised, panned
- EPA delays boiler emissions rule
- Industry blasts DOE fracking panel
- Venture capitalists tout US innovations
- DOE invests $25M in US/India center
science & technology
(Nature)
A high-profile claim that the Human Genome Project and associated research generated almost US$800 billion in economic benefits has been questioned by economists.
The estimate comes from the Battelle Memorial Institute, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio...5/11
(NY Times) ...The group, led by Dr. Karl Deisseroth, a psychiatrist and researcher at Stanford, employed an emerging technology called optogenetics to control electrical activity in a few carefully selected neurons...5/16
(Science Daily) Physicists have developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks...5/16
(Scientific American) The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is starting to heal, say researchers in Australia...5/16
(Popular Science) Depending on who you ask, these long-ignored, widely-scattered elements are either a dealbreaker or no problem at all...5/11
Other Stories
(NPR) In Egypt, political parties are frantically trying to organize, register and make themselves known before elections scheduled for this fall...5/17
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