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(Chemical & Engineering News) Automakers are increasingly looking to combine emission-limiting propulsion technologies with stiff, lightweight carbon composite frames...The U.S. government is also flexing its muscle to push carbon fiber technology. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has spent a decade on developing alternative carbon fiber feedstocks and lower energy fiber production processes...9/26
(Gizmodo) When carbon fibre was first trotted out in solid-rocket motor cases and tanks in the 1960s, it was poised to not only take on fibreglass, but also a whole host of other materials. What happened?... “The final product will cost double what you started with because half burns off”, explains Bob Norris of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s polymer matrix composites group.
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(State Democratic Assembly) Tennessee House and Senate Democrats spent all of Friday in Knoxville speaking to business owners throughout the city as their statewide jobs tour explored emerging career fields. “All of the companies we visited would either not exist or not be nearly as successful without the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner.”...9/24
(Knoxville News Sentinel) When Thom Mason's name was raised as one of the potential candidates for lab director at Lawrence Livermore, some folks questioned his lack of experience in the nuclear weapons business...Lab directing is pretty much a full-time job, the ORNL chief emphasized. "My science output is not zero, but it's awfully close," he said....9/24
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DOE
(Energy.gov) Many great technology stories have started with just one humble computer and a desk. Twenty years ago this month, the Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicle Data Center (AFDC) started just this way at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)...9/23
(Knoxville News Sentinel) During the last half of the Cold War, the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant maintained a little facility known as "Just In Case."...9/26
State & Regional
(Tennessean) It was another bustling Thursday at the Tennessee Department of Human Services office in Nashville, with recession victims filling chairs and waiting for two hours or more to see what help they could get...9/26
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National
(CNN) (Video at link) Safely back on American soil, freed Americans Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer on Sunday recounted their two years in "a world of lies and false hope" behind the walls of an Iranian prison....9/26
(New York Times) Standing in the living room of their house, now full of mud, slime and debris, Helen and Peter Kelly cannot believe that Congress is bickering over disaster aid to people like them...9/25
(NPR) The fragile and troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan is on a deep, downward spiral. Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that Pakistan's intelligence agency had a role in several high-profile attacks in Afghanistan, including the attack earlier this month on the U.S. embassy in Kabul...9/26
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Getting The Steel Out
Data Center Celebrates 20 Years of Delivering Savings
Y-12 eliminates 'Just In Case' facility
Flood Victims Getting Fed Up With Congress "Click for Larger Image")