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 (Biofuels Digest) Recently a team down at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory led by Jeremy Smith combined simulations on ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer, and neutron scattering at the lab's High Flux Isotope Reactor, to resolve lignin's structure at scales ranging from 1 to 1,000 angstroms....6/16
 (Knoxville News Sentinel) Construction was completed May 31 on the new $9 million mini-hotel near the Spallation Neutron Source....6/16
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 (domain-B) With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jun Xu has boosted the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 per cent....6/16
(HPC Wire) In his new position, Wells will be responsible for an NCCS scientific strategy that ensures cost-effective, state-of-the-art computing to facilitate the scientific missions of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Computing Research Center....6/16 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $275 million loan guarantee to Calisolar Inc. to commercialize its innovative solar silicon manufacturing process....6/16
(Knoxville News Sentinel) URS/CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), the U.S. Department of Energy's new environmental management contractor in Oak Ridge, has offered jobs to 227 Bechtel Jacobs Co. employees as part of the transition of contractors....6/17
East Tennessee
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved licenses that will allow up to 1,000 tons of Germany's low-level radioactive waste to be brought to Oak Ridge, Tenn., for incineration....6/16 |
National
(New York Times) The instability rocking Greece this week is the latest manifestation of a troubling new phase in the global financial crisis: political turmoil is sweeping through Europe, toppling governments and threatening to undermine efforts to rescue the financial system and, ultimately, the euro zone itself....6/17
State & Regional
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) TVA has signed a letter of intent with a contractor to design, license and build six prefabricated nuclear reactors to be sited at the former Clinch River Breeder Reactor site in Roane County....6/17
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus is asking the board of trustees for a 12 percent tuition increase in the fall to make up for state funding cuts, create a salary pool for faculty and establish a fund to help make the university a top-25 school....6/17 |
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(BBC) Astronomers have spied a star's swan song as it is shredded by a black hole. Researchers suspect that the star wandered too close to the black hole and got sucked in by the huge gravitational forces....6/16
(Science Daily) A team of Canadian scientists discovered that specific mixtures of antimicrobial agents presented in lipid mixtures can significantly boost the effectiveness of those agents to kill the resistant bacteria....6/17
(Wired) Remember how you read those issues of Silver Surfer from the '60s and reflected long and hard about the possibility of pacifism when all an intergalactic traveler encounters was warlike aliens? The mad scientists at Darpa want you to put those musings to work on its most cosmic project yet....6/17