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(EurekAlert) ... These awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities. [Gary D.] Seidel's research also overlaps with several Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiatives, including addressing global warming through alternative energy, advancing active materials, and advancing multiscale characterization and modeling....5/26
(Michigan Newswire) Last month, the Michigan Strategic Fund board approved a Centers of Energy Excellence designation and $3.5 million in funding for Energetx Composites, the spin-off of S2 Yachts located in Holland, which will collaborate with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Dow Chemical Company to manufacture wind turbine blades with advanced materials. Dow and ORNL will deliver innovative materials and technical expertise to Energetx, and the University of Michigan and Kettering University will contribute workforce training...5/26
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(The Leaf Chronicle) The building, like so many homes and businesses in middle Tennessee, was a pale brown from where the floodwaters covered it. Mike Wilson, manager of Austin Peay State University's Geographic Information Systems, stood among the tree limbs and other debris in the Woodlawn community and pulled out his cell phone. He wasn't making a call. He was filling out a damage assessment of the property and filing it to an electronic server...a new cell phone application, developed by the APSU GIS Center and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, may soon allow emergency responders to document immediately any damage they come across...5/26
(PhysOrg.com) A halo may be difficult to acquire in terms of virtue, but it can also be tough to calculate in terms of physics. Thomas Papenbrock, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his colleagues Gaute Hagen from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Morten Hjorth-Jensen from the University of Oslo have managed to do just that, however, and report their findings in "Ab-initio computation of the 17F proton-halo state and resonances in A = 17 nuclei," published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters...5/26 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for Nissan North America's advanced battery manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee...5/26
(Oak Ridger) The role that Oak Ridge's historic Y-12 plant continues to play in regard to national security was among a handful of key points made this week by NNSA Administrator Tom D'Agostino, as part of the Tennessee Valley Corridor's technology summit being held in Washington, D.C...5/26
(Knoxville News Sentinel) A number of mangement changes are taking place in the B&W contractor organization at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, beginning with Chris Robinson's reassignment as a senior technical advisor, defense nuclear nonproliferation, in the Science, Technology and Partnerships organization...5/26
(DOE Press Release) President Obama spoke with Energy Secretary Steven Chu tonight by telephone from Air Force One. Secretary Chu briefed the President on his scientific and technical assessment of BP's plans for a possible "top kill" and what the next steps will be if BP's "top kill" fails to stop to leak...5/25
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National
(Wall Street Journal) Officials reported encouraging signs—but not success—Wednesday night in BP PLC's latest effort to stop crude oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank more than a month ago...5/27
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) ...The Security Protection Officer Team Competition is now in its 38th year, and this is the first time Oak Ridge has hosted the event since 2002. Most sites in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, such as Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Labs and the Pantex warhead assembly plant, sent teams. Oak Ridge has a team competing, and there are military and top-flight police units as well...5/26
(Oak Ridger) Students at Morgan County Career and Technical Center use their energy to hoist a tower with a wind turbine on top. It will eventually help to power the school by harnessing the wind...5/25
State & Regional
(WBIR.com) The Tennessee Valley Authority, after deferring and cancelling almost a dozen nuclear reactors in the latter part of the last century, is now turning back to nuclear reactors for power production...5/25 |
Oak Ridge is hosting elite forces in annual security competition