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Friday, July 04, 2008

 

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

ORNL researchers make magazine's top 100 list
(WBIR-TV) When you flip through the pages of one of the country's most-read science magazines, you'll soon see the names of a bunch of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory....7/1

Battelle, Its National Labs Win 20 R&D Awards
(Earth Times) Oak Ridge National Laboratory won six awards (the most awards of any national lab), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory won four, Idaho National Laboratory won one, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory won two, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory won three....7/2

$17.5M to support OR-based work
(Knoxville News Sentinel) About $15.5 million of a special midyear appropriations package for science will go to support Oak Ridge-based work on an international fusion project, and another $2 million will supplement the funding at the Spallation Neutron Source....7/3

A Farm Stimulus Package
(Business TN) A shared resource of the University of Tennessee System, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and public and private partners, Cherokee Farm, is expected to stimulate economic development and create high-tech jobs throughout the region and state....7/2

Millimeter-sized 'Bohr atom' is created
(UPI) U.S.-led physicists say they've created millimeter-sized atoms .. [in a] study that included Rice researchers Jeffery Mestayer, Brendan Wyker and Jim Lancaster; Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Carlos Reinhold; and the Vienna University of Technology's Shuhei Yoshida and Joachim Burgdorfer...7/2

STATE & REGIONAL:

Water on the wane
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Utilities are facing increased demand and dwindling capacity...7/3

Drought Safe
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Knoxville and Tri-Cities metro areas are classified as being in the midst of a severe drought, whereas McMinn County is already experiencing extreme drought conditions....7/3

WORK FORCE:

Troubled economy hits women hard
(Christian Science Monitor) Income inequality, a real estate slump, and exposure to subprime loans play a role....7/2

 

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL:

A Shortage Of Troops in Afghanistan
(Washington Post) The nation's top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasingly violent insurgency...7/3 [Registration Required]

Iraq Hints at Delay in U.S. Security Deal
(New York Times) Declaring that there will not be “another colonization of Iraq,” Iraq’s foreign minister raised the possibility on Wednesday that a full security agreement with the United States might not be reached this year...7/3

ENERGY & SCIENCE POLICY:

Climate Scorecard ranks U.S. last among largest economies
(USA Today) The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight biggest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found....7/3

U.S. Lifts Moratorium on New Solar Projects
(New York Times) Under increasing public pressure over its decision to temporarily halt all new solar development on public land, the Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it was lifting the freeze, barely a month after it was put into effect....7/3

Inside Energy Extra - 7/2 A daily report on U.S. energy policy [pdf file; ORNL subscription - internal use]
-Prior to G8, Bush repeats oil call
-BLM to accept new solar proposals
-Sandia, Livermore win R&D 100s
-Updated controls on drilling urged
-Feinstein asks CFTC to inform EIA
-DOE, Idaho strike cleanup deal

DOE:

New Money Prevents Layoffs at Fermilab
(New York Times) With an infusion of money, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will avoid layoffs of 80 employees and resume work on a project to investigate ephemeral particles known as neutrinos....7/3

U.S. Contribution to LHC: On Budget and Ahead of Schedule
(AIP Bulletin) On Monday, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation announced that the United States has completed - on budget and ahead of the September 30, 2008 milestone - its contribution to the Large Hadron Collider....7/2

Senior DOE Officials in Spain to Participate in World Petroleum Congress
(DOE Press Release) The World Petroleum Congress is a global forum held every three years to address resource potential, infrastructure, the regulatory framework and other key issues related to the future of petroleum development....7/2


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