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(The Daily Beacon) The Science Forum lectures continued Friday with a talk from Bob DeVault titled “Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in 2010.” DeVault, who earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering science from UT, is a research engineer and principle investigator for plug-in vehicles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory... 9/28
(SpaceRef.com) "The INCITE allocation on Jaguar was crucial in enabling the successful runs leading to these groundbreaking results," said Woosley, leader of the SciDAC supernova project, which has fostered successful collaborations like this one between applied mathematicians and astrophysicists. "And the continuing support of the Department of Energy Office of Science is critical to advancing our research."... 9/26
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Oak Ridge National Laboratory computer remained No. 2 when a subsequent list was released six months later, but there's reason to believe that the next time around - when the new Top 500 list is revealed in November - that Jaguar will grab the top spot... 9/26
(Knoxville News Sentinel) SEC's contract is valued at about $1.5 million and involves demolition of the east wing of the 2000 Complex, which is a series of old Quonset huts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory... 9/26 |
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DOE
WARF, GLRBC Join Forces on Home Grown"Clean" Technologies
(Media News Wire) The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ( WARF ) and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center ( GLBRC ) have joined forces to promote "clean" technologies invented at the University of Wisconsin-Madison... 9/27
(Oak Ridger) The National Nuclear Security Administration and USEC Inc. announced this week they have been involved in the elimination of more than 375 metric tons of highly enriched uranium -- or HEU -- from Russia... 9/25
(The Knoxville Journal) The Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Center for Science Education, located at 301 Raccoon Rd. in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is the first LEED Gold certified new office building in the state... 9/27
(Richmond Times-Dispatch) After spending $10 billion to $12 billion over the past 25 years studying a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, President Barack Obama is fulfilling a campaign promise to kill it as a site for the repository. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada also stands to benefit, as he faces re-election next year and Nevada residents adamantly oppose the project... 9/26
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State & Regional
(Tennessean) The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission — the group that oversees TVA's nuclear facilities — has started its own investigation of Richards for potential infractions, including whether she improperly took private documents that she used to defend herself in a series of workplace allegations... 9/26
(Tennessean) All in all, Tennessee higher education is going to receive an extra $228 million in state and federal funds as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and millions more in research and student aid funding... 9/28
(Tennessean) An Austin Peay State University classroom is now being run on solar power, making the school the first commercial customer in Clarksville to contribute solar energy to the power grid... 9/28
East Tennessee
(Oak Ridger) The largest tax break given under city policies in effect for several years might have to be revised now that USEC Inc. and its partner and contractors have begun laying off employees, city officials said last week... 9/27
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Hour after hour, day after day, workers wearing hard hats, yellow vests and waders fan out across a moonscape of gray goop in track hoes and dump trucks. They board floating dredges that ply the waters of the lower Emory River. They load trains... 9/27
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