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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason testified today before the House Science energy and environment subcommittee. The hearing was on the next generation of fusion research, and Mason talked about the Oak Ridge lab's role as headquarters for the U.S. involvement in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, as well as the future of fusion research etc...10/28
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(Oak Ridger) A joint community effort to come up with ways to honor and remember the late great Alvin M. Weinberg, a long-time director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, may have been out of sight over the past year or so, but that mission certainly hasn't been out of mind...10/27
(GEO Connexion) East View Cartographic (EVC) signed an agreement to be a commercial distributor for LandScan Global Population Database, which is developed by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). EVC also has a special authorization to distribute this global database at a country level...10/28
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National
(NY Times) After days of uncertain signals, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said Thursday that conditions now existed for “cooperation” with world powers on its nuclear program, but he insisted that his government would not retreat “one iota” from what he termed undeniable nuclear rights, according to news reports...10/30
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Workers at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center have been involved in testing aerodynamics, stability and other aspects of NASA's Ares 1-X flight vehicle launched for the first time today...10/28
(AP) A study shows Tennessee's average 9.4 cent tax on every $1 spent is the highest sales tax rate in America....10/27
East Tennessee
(The Leaf Chronicle) The University of Tennessee's interim president spent much of Tuesday speaking to local officials about the progress UT is making in a struggling economy, but also spent a few hours at one of Clarksville's untapped resources...10/28 |
DOE
(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
(DOE Press Release) Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system...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
(AP) A bill designed to keep foreign countries from disposing their nuclear waste in the United States is taking a small but significant step toward getting a U.S. House committee vote for the first time...10/27 |
Update on foreign nuclear waste