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(Knoxville News Sentinel) It looks like Oak Ridge National Laboratory will once again pursue alternative financing for a modernization and expansion project. This time, if it works out, outside financing would be used to build a new computer facility to house a 20-petaflops supercomputer that's now in the planning stages. The computer, which would have a peak capability of about 20,000 trillion calculations per second, is in the proposal stages at the Department of Energy and would come sometime in the 2011-12 timeframe, according to Jeff Nichols, the scientific computing chief at ORNL...10/19
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(Automobilemag.com)
A year before it launches U.S. sales of its first electric family car, Nissan Motor Co. is developing a next-generation battery that will be lighter and less expensive...This year, Nissan signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to work together on future battery development. At the time, an Oak Ridge official said the federal lab thinks it can develop a battery capable of delivering 400 miles on a single charge...10/19
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State & Regional
(The Tennessean) As a key Senate committee geared up for a critical vote on health care, Gov. Phil Bredesen took to his pen...In a break with most of the governors in his own party, Democrat Phil Bredesen is saying publicly that the legislation that currently serves as the framework for reform shifts too much of the financial burden to state governments...10/18
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) As Jere McCraw tends the family cemetery where six generations of his ancestors are buried, he looks warily at the ash storage ponds built only a few hundred yards away, next to TVA's Widows Creek Fossil Plant...10/20
(Knoxville News Sentinel) [Need to scroll] The research of University of Tennessee professor Gordon Burghardt will be featured on tonight's NOVA program on PBS. The 8-9 p.m. show is focused on the entire group of monitor lizards, which includes the largest lizard in the world, the Komodo dragon...10/20
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National
Washington (Reuters) A former U.S. government scientist was arrested on Monday for attempted espionage in an undercover operation with FBI agents posing as Israeli intelligence officers, the Justice Department said...10/19
Washington (AP) Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever, and a weak employment market could linger for years...10/20
DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The government contractor in charge of the massive K-25 demolition project has acknowledged there is potential for a nuclear criticality in parts of the old building bearing deposits of enriched uranium, but said it is highly unlikely...10/20
(DOE Press Release) Vice President Biden today unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to expand green job opportunities and boost energy savings by making homes more energy efficient...10/19 |
