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(Associated Press) The renewable energy sector has been among the most promising areas of discussion while on a trade mission to China, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday. That visit led to discussions about working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the possibility of locating Chinese manufacturing facilities in Tennessee....10/27
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) As time approaches for the next Supercomputing Conference, this time in Portland, Ore., and keynoted by former Vice President (and Tennessean) Al Gore, there is a watch under way on Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT5 Jaguar that could be No. 1 on the next world Top500 supercomputer list....10/28
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Bredesen noted that Billy Stair, communications director for ORNL, is part of the trip, and said the research facility he visited in China is focused largely on manufacturing processes, while ORNL has materials science expertise and the computational capabilities to design better materials....10/28 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The government makes its case for a new production facility at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in a long-delayed environmental impact statement released this week....10/28
(DOE Press Release) Secretary Steven Chu testified Tuesday morning before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act....10/27
(DOE Press Release) The Department of Energy announced that it has entered into a $24 million conditional loan commitment with Tenneco Inc. to develop fuel efficient emission control components for advanced technology vehicles....10/27
(Atomic City Underground) The International Atomic Energy Agency has joined with the Dept. of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information to help make nuclear-related research results more available to research scientists, academia and Joe and Jane interested in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy....10/28
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National
(New York Times) The explosion came about three hours after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, 90 minutes drive away, underscoring the challenges facing American policy in a nation that has become skeptical of Washington’s long-term commitment....10/28 [Registration Required]
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The first National Day of Remembrance honoring workers in the nation's nuclear weapons program, many of whom fell sick and ultimately died as a result of workplace exposures, will be Friday, and Oak Ridge will be among the sites holding ceremonies....10/28
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(Tennessean) A new EPA report says that the potentially toxic pollutants in coal ash, from mercury to arsenic, are of particular concern because they can concentrate in large amounts that are discharged to waterways or seep into groundwater....10/28
(USA Today) Pilots and controllers still communicate over clunky radios that are often laden with static and require multiple frequency changes....10/28
(New York Times) A view has emerged to counter the image that a neurotransmitter is the little Bacchus of our brain....10/28 [Registration Required]
(Wired) There’s a geek mecca in them thar hills. And don’t expect your iPhone’s GPS to guide you to it. Hidden in the green hills of West Virginia, in a 13,000-square-mile National Radio Quiet Zone, is the world’s largest fully steerable telescope....10/28
(Washington Post) According to a new study by a group of paleontologists, round holes in the jawbones of many T. rex skeletons suggest that the ferocious creatures may have been afflicted by a potentially life-threatening infectious disease, trichomonosis, that occurs today in pigeons and other birds....10/27 [Registration Required]