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(Missourian) Brad McConnell was well aware of the nascent movement for energy-efficient housing when he started a contracting company last October that specializes in weatherizing homes. What he didn't foresee was the enormity of federal stimulus funding aimed at creating green-collar jobs to support the push for energy efficiency... 7/2
(Atomic City Underground) In retirement, Lenhard switched gears and devoted much of his energy to economic development in Oak Ridge. In fact, many folks who know Lenhard today probably don't realize he used to oversee Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the scientific activities there... 7/1
(Paragould Daily Press) Consumers will be affected disproportionately. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory reported that consumers in the South and Midwest will incur double the price increases of lower-income consumers in the Northeast and West — a direct result of their limited renewable resources and coal-dependence... 7/1
(Building Design and Construction) Currently SPRI, in conjunction with Green Roofs For Healthy Cities, is developing three standards for vegetative roof systems: wind resistance, fire resistance and a root penetration test method. It is also working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on a study of the thermal performance of vegetative roof systems... 7/1
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(Chattanooga Times Free Press)
"We need to understand climate change impacts are no longer hypothetical," said Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks, a corporate research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and an author of the national report, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States."... 7/2
(HPCwire)
DataDirect Network's historical leadership in high throughput storage has kept it atop the supercomputing world. Today, eight of the top 10 systems use DDN gear, including the petaflop-capable Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab. Storage demand continues to grow in HPC... 7/1
(RT) The new element is expected to be synthesized by the end of this year at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the famed town of Dubna, Moscow Region. To achieve this, the target made of berkelium – which was first synthesized at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA – will be bombarded in the accelerator... 7/1
(Newswise) Even the most spectacular Fourth of July fireworks display pales in comparison to what takes place in nature. In a matter of seconds, a supernova releases more energy than the Sun radiates in its 10 billion-year life span, and the explosive event can briefly outshine its host galaxy. Neutron stars, the remnants of such "cosmic fireworks," exhibit the strongest magnetic fields observed in the universe... 7/1
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Divjak will be succeeded by Joe Nemec, another longtime Bechtel executive who was the initial president of Bechtel Jacobs when the company - a partnership of Bechtel National and Jacobs Engineering - became DOE's Oak Ridge cleanup contractor in 1998... 7/2
(Atomic City Underground) DeNuke, a nuclear staffing and support company based in Oak Ridge, announced today that it had received a competitively bid "basic ordering agreement" for health physics support at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois... 7/1
(Erwin Record) [editorial] It was most welcome news when Nuclear Fuel Services won part of a whopping $209 million contract that will continue its downblending operations and current employment levels at least through 2012... 6/30
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The field notes of the inspector who was the last to scrutinize the fly ash pond at the Kingston Fossil Plant disappeared from his desk while he responded to the Dec. 22 collapse at the facility and have not resurfaced, according to his deposition testimony... 7/2
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National
(AP) North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles Thursday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates the already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment... 7/2
(AP) The finances of several states around the nation are sinking deeper into chaos as lawmakers struggle to work out budget differences amid a recession that has wiped out tax revenue and set the stage for dramatic cuts in service and pay for government workers... 7/2
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Bredesen told The Associated Press after a groundbreaking ceremony for a highway project in Nashville that GM had wanted "north of $250 million" in upfront money to select Spring Hill... 7/2
(Tennessean) President Barack Obama said Wednesday that health-care companies and their employees — including those clustered in Middle Tennessee — have nothing to fear from efforts to radically reform the system... 7/2
(WVLT) East Tennessee's so-called stalwart employers -- the Tennessee Valley Authority, the University of Tennessee, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- still provide cushions of stability, says
Garrett Wagley, a recruiter for the Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership... 7/1 |
