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 (USA Today) Auroop Ganguly of the U.S. Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a lead author of one 2009 paper cited by the team, agrees that actual emissions have not exceeded IPCC scenario projections. But he adds by e-mail, "the fossil-fuel intensive scenario from the IPCC, which was once considered rather too high to be plausible, now appears relatively more plausible irrespective of whether the emissions exceed the IPCC bounds or approach the top of the range."...6/15
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(American Nuclear Society) Theodore M. Besmann, Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has developed innovative approaches and fundamental information for the thermodynamic modeling of nuclear fuels and waste forms....6/16
(Earth Times) Brian Wirth, an authority in the ways materials behave in extreme environments, has been named the ninth University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair....6/15 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) A new $59 million steam plant is now up and running at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, and officials gathered Tuesday to celebrate the cleaner, more efficient operation....6/15
(DOE Press Release) Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a conditional commitment to provide a partial guarantee for a $98.5 million loan by John Hancock Financial Services to the Nevada Geothermal Power Company for a 49.5 megawatt geothermal project in Humboldt County in northwestern Nevada....6/15
East Tennessee
(Suite101) The Secret City Festival is an annual event that celebrates the history and contributions that Oak Ridge has made to Tennessee and to the United States since it was created....6/15 |
National
(Washington Post) President Obama urged the nation Tuesday to rally behind legislation that would begin changing the way the country consumes and generates energy, saying the expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is "the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now."...6/16 [Registration Required]
(New York Times) The chairmen of four of the world’s largest oil companies broke their nearly two-month silence on the major spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and publicly blamed BP for mishandling the well that caused the disaster....6/16
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(New York Times) Just in time for Father’s Day come this and other recent studies that reveal surprising, off-road or vaguely unsettling cases of Males Behaving Dadly — attending to the young with an avidity and particularity long thought to be the province of the mother. ....6/15
(Christian Science Monitor) Scientists revised the estimated flow rate for a fifth time Tuesday, saying between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels a day are leaking from the well. That could mean that nearly 3 million barrels of oil have gushed into the Gulf since the oil spill began April 20....6/16
(Science Daily) Crayfish make surprisingly complex, cost-benefit calculations, finds a University of Maryland study -- opening the door to a new line of research that may help unravel the cellular brain activity involved in human decisions....6/15