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Thursday, May 1, 2008

 

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

China now No. 1 CO2 offender
(USA Today) "Nobody could anticipate the rate of growth that's taken place in the last six or eight years in China," says Gregg Marland of Oak Ridge National Laboratory...5/1

LOCAL DOE:

Quality concerns at Y-12 storage
(Knoxville News Sentinel) As construction of the government's $549 million storehouse for bomb-grade uranium nears completion, a new round of quality concerns has cropped up....5/1

COMMUNITY:

Climate solutions sought
(Oak Ridger) Global climate change is happening and it's time to focus on solutions that could stabilize the emissions of greenhouse gases generally blamed for causing global warming, an Oak Ridge-raised scientist says....4/30

UT:

UT Knoxville provost leaving for Massachusetts
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Bob Holub, provost for the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus, has been named chancellor of the University of Massachusetts....5/1

STATE & REGIONAL:

It's the end of I-40 as we know it
(Knoxville News Sentinel) SmartFIX40 closure takes effect today for motorists driving through downtown Knoxville...5/1

WORK FORCE:

Census: Fewer young workers to support U.S. growth
(USA Today) The number of Americans ages 25 to 44 has dropped 1.5% since 2000, shrinking the pool of young workers in some states despite a 7% increase in the country's overall population...5/1
 

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL:

Low Spending Is Taking Toll on Economy
(New York Times) Beleaguered American consumers appear to have succumbed to the pressures of falling home prices and shrinking paychecks....5/1 [Registration Required]

ENERGY & SCIENCE POLICY:

US eyes shift away from corn ethanol
(Christian Science Monitor) Worried about high food prices, Congress tries to push the biofuel industry to use nonfood crops....5/1

Yucca Mountain: Movement Forward/Movement Backward
(AIP Bulletin) Two hearings before the House and Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittees this month offered little optimism about the timely opening of the Yucca Mountain Repository for nuclear waste....5/1

Inside Energy Extra - 4/30 A daily report on U.S. energy policy [pdf file; ORNL subscription - internal use]

DOE:

DOE Seeks to Invest up to $60 Million for Advanced Concentrating Solar Power Technologies
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Under Secretary of Energy Clarence “Bud” Albright today announced the issuance of the Solar Funding Opportunity Announcement for up to $60 million in funding over five years...4/30

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

Scientists Prove the Existence of Missing Fourth Circuit Element
(Wired) Researchers believe the discovery will not only pave the way for more energy-efficient machines, but ones that can also process and associate information in a manner similar to that of the human brain....4/30

In a New Climate Model, Short-Term Cooling in a Warmer World
(New York Times) After decades of research that sought, and found, evidence of a human influence on the earth’s climate, climatologists are beginning to shift to a new and similarly daunting enterprise...5/1

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