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(Knoxville News Sentinel)
The budget climate is affecting lots of things, including the planned expansion and power upgrades at the Spallation Neutron Source. "It'll take a little longer," Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason said last week during an interview regarding budget planning...9/19 |
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Michael Paulus, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Technology Transfer Division, will speak at the Sept. 21 lunch meeting of Friends of ORNL. His talk will be on, "ORNL Innovations That Have Impacted America."...9/19
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DOE
(Physorg.com) "Plant fatty acids are an approximately $150-billion-dollar-a-year market," said Brookhaven biochemist John Shanklin. "Their properties, and therefore their potential uses and values, are determined by the position of double bonds in the hydrocarbon chains that make up their backbones...9/19
(DOE Press Release) The Department of Energy today announced next steps under the Asset Revitalization Initiative, a Department-wide initiative to examine ways to work with local communities to support the reuse of DOE resources at former Cold War weapons sites around the country...9/16
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
A new survey of U.S. corporate executives ranks Tennessee as the fourth best business climate among the 50 states...9/19 |
National
(Reuters)
President Barack Obama laid out a $3.6 trillion plan on Monday to cut budget deficits partly by raising taxes on the rich, but Republicans rejected it as a political stunt and made clear the proposal had little chance of becoming law...9/20
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
A TVA engineer who inspected the Kingston Fossil Plant months before the December 2008 coal fly ash spill said Monday he changed the wording of his report at the suggestion of agency officials and removed some data from a groundwater monitoring program during the period of the spill because he said it was confusing the results...9/19
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New Device Generates Energy from Small Vibrations