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(Nuclearstreet.com) ...John Wagner, Technical Integration Manager for Nuclear Modeling within ORNL's Nuclear Science and Technology Division, says one of the goals of his organization is to integrate existing nuclear energy and nuclear national security modeling and simulation capabilities and associated expertise with high-performance computing to solve problems that were previously unthinkable or impractical in terms of the computing power required to address them...5/23
(PR-Canada.net) Improved LED lights, high tech air filtration systems and lighter, stronger and easier-to-ship materials - all developed locally - are fueling a promising, and increasingly green, future for the Knoxille-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley. Entrepreneurs and local companies in the Innovation Valley economic development region can work closely with researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Department of Energy's Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, and the University of Tennessee/Knoxville....5/24
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(Brighterenergy.org) Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in East Tennessee have achieved a breakthrough that could improve the conversion of cellulosic plants into advanced biofuels. Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in East Tennessee have achieved a breakthrough that could improve the conversion of cellulosic plants into advanced biofuels...5/23
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The new Cray XT6 machine that's the first phase of a supercomputer system for NOAA's climate collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory should be operating by year's end, according to Jim Hack, director of the National Center for Computational Sciences and also director of the ORNL Climate Change Science Institute...5/24
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DOE
K-25 one of state’s most endangered historic sites
(Oak Ridger) The Tennessee Preservation Trust has named the K-25 plant to its "Ten in Tennessee" most endangered historic sites list...5/24
(DOE Press Release) Energy Secretary Steven Chu will postpone a trip to China, scheduled for next week, at the request of President Obama and stay in the country to continue his work on response efforts to the BP oil spill...5/21
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National
(Wall Street Journal) Frustration among federal and state officials over the handling of the Gulf oil spill boiled over Monday, even as the government's lead crisis manager said there was little that federal authorities could do but let BP PLC try to stop the gusher...5/25
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) TVA's board is expected to make a decision in August on nuclear reactor construction at the Bellefonte plant in Northern Alabama, with the TVA staff recommending that the single reactor that TVA halted construction on there in 1988 be completed and put into operation....5/25 |
