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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Even before he accepted the job at the University of Tennessee, Kevin Tomsovic was accessing how to assemble a dynamic team that could lead the country in finding solutions for the nation's outdated power grid...The Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electrical Energy Transmission Networks — or CURENT — will work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee Valley Authority and more than 40 industry partners to find efficient methods of transferring electric power that could be used to build a new "smart grid" to deliver the nation's power...8/18
(Metro Pulse)
Bright students at all Knox County high schools may benefit from the new STEM school that opened this week in the old L&N building downtown. The school system got over $400,000 in “distance learning” equipment from UT-Battelle, the operator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A video conferencing room is being constructed at each high school...8/17 |
(Science Daily) A team of researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) have pinpointed the exact, single gene that controls ethanol production capacity in a microorganism...BESC is led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is one of three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers established by the DOE's Office of Science in 2007...8/16
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Buddy Bland, project director for the Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, passed along a cool report on results of the Department of Energy's INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) program -- much of which is carried out at ORNL...8/17
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Usually, when there's a change of schedule in government, it involves a delay that stretches out the timetable for getting work done. That apparently wasn't the case with Y-12's role in dismantling second-stage components of B53 bombs, some of the biggest nuclear weapons ever put into play...8/17
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Deadline after deadline seems to pass on USEC's application for a $2 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy, yet the company continues to tread water and keep alive its plans for a new uranium-enrichment plant in Ohio...8/17
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has upheld its finding of a serious safety violation that will require increased inspection activities at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama...8/17 |
National
(Wall Street Journal) Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting with the U.S. government to keep control of one of its biggest oil discoveries ever, in a showdown where billions of dollars hang in the balance for both sides...8/18
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro took his message on the potential of switchgrass as a biofuel to Iowa Tuesday, where he touted the idea to the White House administration during a forum on rural economies...8/17
(Oak Ridger) Entrepreneurship could be the answer to today's challenging economy.
And in light of that hope, Technology 2020 -- established 16 years ago by the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce -- is slightly changing its brand, building on its proven strengths, and reaffirming its commitment to helping create potential high-growth companies through technological resources in the Tennessee Valley Corridor...8/17
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Y-12 gets a jump on B53 dismantlement
Seeking a Safer Future for Electricity’s Coal Ash Waste