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(Knoxville News Sentinel)
"Clinton High School is very community tied," said principal Eric Snider. "This community is fiercely proud of this school and its heritage...At Clinton, involving the community is key to ensuring the success of its students. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has teamed with the school to build a net zero house that was inspired by a small model a science teacher and his students built in class...10/17 |
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Research perfecting new ways to make superstrong carbon fiber cheaply will be demonstrated in a pilot plant, and a local college has received grants to train future workers...The facility will parlay cutting-edge research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory into making the material, now so expensive its use is limited...10/17
(Oak Ridger) URS/CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) recently began offsite shipments of soils excavated from around an underground waste tank at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...10/17
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National
(Fortune) Today at the GEOINT 2011 Symposium in San Antonio, TX, Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper told the almost 4000 attendees that the United States Intelligence Community will use cloud computing as a tool to meet aggressive budget reduction targets...10/17
DOE
(Oak Ridger) The following details of the emerging environmental situation and public concerns that produced increased regulations for Y-12 is provided by Mick Wiest, of the Y-12 Environment, Safety and Health organization's Water Compliance Department...10/17
(Azom.com) Virginia Commonwealth University has received a contract totaling $2.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, ARPA-E, to develop and design a new class of permanent magnets to be used in energy-efficient electric car motors or generators...10/17 |
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Babcock & Wilcox, a partner in the American Centrifuge Project, has notified 134 employees at Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Clinch River facility in Oak Ridge that they will be laid off effective Dec. 1...10/17
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Fifteen years ago today — Oct. 18, 1996 — motorists traded a dangerous stretch of highway through Cumberland Gap for the safety of a nearly mile-long tunnel bored through the base of Cumberland Mountain...10/18
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Visits to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park remain behind the numbers from last year...10/17 |
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