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 (Knoxville News Sentinel) Phillip Britt and Jimmy Mays of Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Chemical Society....8/9
(EurekAlert) A Los Alamos National Laboratory research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain biological reactions. Members of the research team include Andrey Kovalevsky, Suzanne Fisher, Marat Mustyakimov, Thomas Yoshida, and Paul Langan (currently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory)....8/8 |
(Ethanol Producer Magazine) The U.S. DOE has released an update to its 2005 Billion Ton Study to provide a comprehensive resource assessment to the bioenergy and bioproducts industry. The study is available on the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework....8/9
(Benzinga) A report by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory said that over the standard 40-year license term of nuclear power plants, solar flare activity enables a 33 percent chance of long-term power loss, a risk that significantly outweighs that of major earthquakes and tsunamis....8/9 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) The U.S. Department of Energy has announced nearly $7 million over five years for independent cost analyses that will support research and development efforts for fuel cells and hydrogen storage systems....8/9
(DOE Press Release) The Department of Energy has announced that it has awarded up to $39 million in research grants aimed at developing cutting-edge nuclear energy technologies and training and educating the next generation of leaders in the U.S. nuclear industry....8/9
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Of all the U.S. Department of Energy programs in Oak Ridge, including science research and work on nuclear weapons, environmental management has been the most difficult to keep funded in recent years....8/10 |
National
(NPR) When Congress returns from recess, many hope a supercommittee can devise a deficit-reduction plan....8/10
(Reuters) World shares clawed back more ground on Wednesday as investors rattled by a run of heavy losses took comfort from the Federal Reserve's pledge to keep interest rates near zero for two more years....8/10
(USA Today) Results of the 2010 Census have been pouring out all year, an avalanche of statistics detailing the population characteristics of states, counties and cities. But the Census represents more than just a current snapshot....8/10
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) In dueling teleconferences Tuesday, TVA and a Knoxville-based environmental group squared off over a controversial plan to complete a partially completed reactor at the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant site in Hollywood, Ala....8/10 |
(NPR) A wildlife biologist is continuing to face questions about an influential paper he wrote on apparently drowned polar bears, with government investigators reportedly asking whether he improperly steered a research contract to another scientist as a reward for reviewing that paper....8/10