Vol. 33, No. 3, ( 2000)
Transportation Research- Editorial: Putting East Tennessee on the Transportation Research Map
- NTRC: Accelerating the Transportation Revolution
- Toward a Cleaner Diesel Vehicle
- An Emissions Mission: Solving the Sulfur Problem
- New User Facility Has Old (But Excellent) Instruments
- Truck Brake Tester Could Boost Highway Safety
- Better Ways to Weigh Trucks
- Carbon-Fiber Composites for Cars
- Supercomputers Help Model Cars in Collisions
- Power Electronics: Energy Manager for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
- Is There a ‘Green’ Car in Your Future?
- Biological Ways of Producing Ethanol
- Aviation Research Takes Off at ORNL
- Packaging and Transporting Hazardous Materials
- Transportation Planners Aided by GIS Research
- Defense Transportation and Logistics Research
- Software Tools Will Help Emergency Responders
- E-Commerce’s Impacts on Transportation
- Learning Smart Ways to Use Intelligent Transportation Systems
- UT Goal: Safer Trips
- Mass Spectrometer Can Detect Weapons of Mass Destruction
- ORNL’s Graphite Foam May Aid Transportation
- Microfocusing Mirrors May Advance Materials Science
Vol. 33, No. 2, ( 2000)
Carbon Management- Editorial: ORNL Could Be DOE Leader in Carbon Management
- Managing Carbon: ORNL's Research Roles
- Producing and Detecting Hydrogen
- New Hydrogen-Producing Reaction Could Lead to Micropower Sources
- Fuel Cells: Clean Power Source for Homes and Cars?
- Capturing Carbon the ORNL Way
- Boosting Bioenergy and Carbon Storage in Green Plants
- Land Use and Climate Change
- Plunging into Carbon Sequestration Research
- Methane Hydrates: A Carbon Management Challenge
- Adapting to Climate Change
- High-Carbon Tree Growth Rate Falls
- Reshaping the Bottle for Fusion Energy
- Building a Transistor That Doesn't Forget
- New Type of Radioactivity Discovered at ORNL
- Forecasting Epileptic Seizures
- Lynne Parker's Cooperative Robots
- Mercury Beyond Oak Ridge
- A Disrupted Organic Film: Could Memories Be Made of This?
- ORNL's Powerful Tools for Scientific Discovery
- Breaking a Record for Analysis of Atoms
Vol. 33, No. 1, ( 2000)
Virtual Human: Science at the Interface- Editorial: Science at the Interface
- Science at the Interface: A Roundtable Discussion
- Center for Structural and Molecular Biology Open to Users
- The Virtual Human Project: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
- The Spallation Neutron Source: A Challenging Year
- Neutrino Detector Laboratory To Be Proposed for ORNL
- Turbine Renewal: Shaping an Emerging Gas-Fired Power Source
- Heat Pumps: Getting the Most Energy Bang for the Buck
- Combined Solar Light and Power for Illuminating Buildings
- What's in a Chromosome? Tune in to the Genome Channel
- Microbial Functional Genomics and Waste Site Bioremediation
- Human Improvement
- Infrared Processing Center: Industrial Interest Heats Up
- How Much Stuff is Made in Stellar Explosions? ORNL's Answer
- Electronic License Could Reduce Drunken Driving
Vol. 19, No. 4, ( 1986)
- Sizing Up Contaminated Properties: A Saga of ORNL's Western Pioneers. Employees at ORNL's new office in Grand Junction, Colorado, have surveyed hundreds of radon-emitting properties for DOE's Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project. The office also is responsible for several innovations that are expected to save the project millions of dollars.
- Genetic Risks of Using Ethylene Oxide. New ORNL studies on the mutagenicity of ethylene oxide in mice suggest that regulations may be needed to limit brief exposures to the gas, which is widely used by health care workers to sterilize medical supplies.
- Human Gene Therapy: A Look at a Cutting Edge of Biomedical Science. Gene therapy—implanting appropriate genes in cells to correct genetic disorders—is being considered for widespread use in humans with inherited diseases. The author, who is a member of a national committee that considers the technical, ethical, and social implications of this biomedical technology, discusses the technical merits and problems of human gene therapy and current recommendations on its future use.
- Survey Sampling: A Useful Tool for Scientific Investigation. Scientists at ORNL have used statistics and survey sampling to ensure accuracy in their research results. Examples include determining the proportion of transuranic wastes in waste mixtures and estimating the size of fish populations at various sites. The author presents a primer on conducting a survey.
- Nuclear Sleuthing at ORNL: A New Look at Neutron Activation Analysis. Scientists at ORNL have helped develop neutron-activation analysis, which has been used for 50 years to identify and quantify elements, such as uranium, in materials. They will advance the science at the expanded NAA facility at the High Flux Isotope Reactor.
- ORNL's Forays into Forensic Activation Analysis. In the 1960s ORNL activation-analysis experts helped evaluate the evidence from the Kennedy assassination and two highly publicized murder trials.
- News Notes. ORNL's involvement in CERN physics experiment; plans for ACTO, a nuclear-plant advanced controls facility; another Large Coil Test Program milestone.
- Technical Capsules. ORNL's three IR 100 award-winning projects; new method of detecting wear in motor-operated valves; designing a reactor for space.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
Vol. 19, No. 3, ( 1986)
- The Origins of Physics Research at ORNL
- The Origins of Chemical Research at ORNL
- Surface Modification Using Ion Beams and Lasers
- A View of the Surface on the Atomic Scale
- Design of High-Temperature, Ordered Intermetallic Alloys
- Materials Science Theory at ORNL
- Recent Advances in the Science of Ceramics
- Ceramics in Basic Research
- Users, Users Everywhere
- Probing Materials Using Low-Energy Neutron Beams
- ORNL's X-Ray Facility at the National Synchrotron Light Source
- The Science and Engineering of Irradiated Materials
- Theoretical Research on Solids
- Mathematical Sciences Research at ORNL
- Research in Intelligent Machines at ORNL
- Collisions of Low-Energy Multiply Charged Ions
- High-Energy Atomic Physics
- Platinized Chloroplasts: A New Bioelectronic Material Developed at ORNL
- Separation Science and Technology
- Research on High-Temperature Water Solutions
- Organic Chemistry of Coal
- Analytical Challenges in Mass Spectrometry Research
- Nuclear Physics Theory at ORNL
- Macroscopic Nuclear Physics
- Nuclear Structure of the Stressed Nucleus
- Probing Nuclei Using ORELA's Energetic Neutrons
Vol. 19, No. 2, ( 1986)
- State of the Laboratory—1985: How Service Groups Support Research. In this updated report of his February 10, 1986, address to the staff, ORNL Director Herman Postma salutes the work of the Laboratory's support and services organizations in maintaining ORNL as a high-quality research facility. Services mentioned by Postma range from computerized library services and health risk information to the fabrication of large-scale breeder test equipment. Technical highlights include the development of a novel bioelectronic photosynthetic material for water splitting, an analytical technique to aid in the design of more efficient absorption heat pumps for heating and cooling buildings, a "smarter" robot, a method of using "bugs" to liquefy coal, and a computerized ultrasonic system for mapping "hot spots" on properties in the West having radioactive uranium mill tailings. Postma also notes ORNL's award-winning achievements.
- Superconducting Magnets for Fusion Energy: The Story Behind the Six Coils. The International Fusion Superconducting Magnet Test Facility at ORNL now contains its full array of six large superconducting magnet coils. The coils were designed and built under ORNL's direction over the past 10 years by groups in Japan, Switzerland, the European Atomic Energy Community, and three U.S. firms. This article presents the story behind the coils and the status of the testing program to compare the technical performance, reliability, and economics of different coil designs that could be used to contain plasmas in fusion devices that could generate useful electrical power.
- Books. Global Energy: Assessing the Future is reviewed by Bud Perry of the Energy Division.
- News Notes. ORNL and Japan collaborate on fission R&D; isotope facilities named nuclear historic landmark; inventors honored; technology-transfer workshop sparks industrial interest.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
Vol. 19, No. 1, ( 1986)
- Civilian Reactor Power in the United States: A Strategy for ORNL
- The Next Generation of Reactors: The Nuclear Power Options Viability Study
- Nuclear Power: Who Needs It?
- Where in the World Is Nuclear Energy?
- Pressurized Thermal Shock: A Hot Issue for the Nuclear Industry?
- Reactor Safety Research: NRC Programs at ORNL
- Radioactive Waste Disposal: Technical Plans, Institutional Delays
- Automating Large-Scale Reactor Systems
- Building a Better Research Reactor: The Proposed Center for Neutron Research
- Radioisotopes from ORNL: 40 Years of Customer Satisfaction
- Editorial. The nuclear power option must be kept alive
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- News Notes. Six ORNL-UT Distinguished Scientists appointed; Voyager space probe (which is carrying an ORNL-made alloy) has close encounter with Uranus; ORNL officials tell congressional committees of budget impacts
- Books. The Nuclear Connection: A reassessment of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation_ (edited by Alvin Weinberg et al.) is reviewed