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OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
As fuel prices rise, some speedometer needles fall
(Baltimore Sun)
Based on recent highway traffic volume trends, throttling back to 60 mph from 70 mph would likely reduce gasoline usage between 2 percent and 3 percent, which is about what happened when the 55-mph limit was imposed in the 1970s, said David Greene, a senior researcher at the U.S. Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Lab... 05/12
Now, laser beams to track killers fingerprints
(Thaindian News)
Scientists have developed a new technique, which involves the use of laser beams that can capture even faint fingerprints left on the corpses of murder victims, thus helping in the identification of the killer... 05/12
Alexander's 7-Step 'Manhattan Project' addresses energy issue
(Oak Ridger) U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander came to Oak Ridge on Friday to promote a five-year project aimed at making America energy independent and more environmentally friendly within a generation... 05/11 |
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Area should lead talks on nuclear power
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Some $4 million in funding to the Tennessee Valley Authority from the U.S. Department of Energy brings up the issue of nuclear power and East Tennessee... [editorial] 05/12
Y-12 plans to add microwave furnace
(Knoxville News Sentinel) After years of testing, the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant plans to introduce a microwave furnace into its production operations and use it for casting bomb-grade uranium... 05/09 |
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UT nursing graduates clear homeland security program
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The University of Tennessee lays claim to the only nursing program in the country with a focus on global disaster response training for its practitioners... 05/12
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Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared
(Washington Post) At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Gulf region to Latin America have recently approached U.N. officials here to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concerned proliferation experts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations... 05/12
Burma Faces 'Public Health Catastrophe,' Charity Says
(Washington Post)
An estimated 1.5 million Burmese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned Sunday, as survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other help... 05/11
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Data from Columbia shuttle survives accident
(USA Today) Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible... Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003... 05/09
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Lebanese Army steps into Beirut fray
(CS Monitor) A tense calm took hold in Lebanon Sunday after the government and the opposition, led by the militant Shiite group Hezbollah, reached a tentative agreement allowing the Lebanese Army to arbitrate controversial cabinet decisions that triggered recent violence... 05/12
U.S. to mine N. Korean papers for answers, progress
(CS Monitor) A US diplomat returns to Washington Monday with 18,000 pages of information supplied by North Korea after talks in Pyongyang meant to end the impasse on getting the North to give up its nuclear program... 05/12
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Incentive targets ‘green’ companies
(City Paper, Nashville) As its top new incentive to lure businesses to Tennessee, the Bredesen administration wants to get in on the ever-growing ‘green’ energy field, but is facing some debate over whether that’s wise during an economic downturn... 05/12
Forecast does not mean our state's economy is doomed
(Tennessean) On May 1, our State Funding Board released a gloomy, revised economic forecast for Tennessee. Included in it was a $314.5 million to $384 million downward revision of state revenues for the current budget year... 05/11
Green collar jobs come to Hawkins
(Rogersville Review) While office jobs have traditionally been referred to as white collar and production jobs as blue collar, Tennessee Commissioner of Economic and Community Development Matt Kisber paid a visit to Hawkins County to applaud the green collar jobs at Nu-Energie, LLC... 05/09
Critics complain of TVA pollution, nuke 'fiasco'
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Tennessee Valley Authority controlled an unruly river and spread electricity into the remote hollows of the region, but to its critics, the agency has a 75-year history of insensitivity to the problem of air pollution... 05/12
TVA working to stay on top in changing industry, but public status, priorities here to stay
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Seventy-five years ago, TVA was formed to be an agent of change in the South, reshaping an economy still staggering from Civil War, subduing the rivers that coursed through its territory... 05/11
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces Completion of 500 Industrial Energy Saving Assessment
(DOE Press Release) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that it has completed the 500th Energy Saving Assessment (ESA) at the nation’s largest industrial facilities... 05/09
U.S. Secretary of Energy to Visit Trinidad and Tobago to Advance Long-Standing Strategic Energy Cooperation
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman will travel to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on Monday to highlight the countries’ joint efforts to ensure steady supplies of diverse energy sources, increase energy infrastructure security, and advance economic development and prosperity in the Western Hemisphere... 05/09
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Energy Extra -05/09 A daily report on U.S. energy policy [pdf file; ORNL subscription - internal use]
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