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 (AZoNanotechnology) Developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Asylum Research, electrochemical strain microscopy is an innovative scanning probe microscopy technique capable of probing electrochemical reactivity and ionic flows in solids on the sub-ten-nanometer level. It is the first technique that measures ionic currents directly, providing a new tool for mapping electrochemical phenomena on the nanoscale....3/18
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(ABC News) Chief nuclear technologist Kirk Sorensen, from Teledyne Brown Engineering in the US, says Alvin Weinberg - the creator of the most common reactor design in the world - actually warned the nuclear community in the 1960s that the reactor could have trouble shutting down if there was a loss of power....3/18
(Oak Ridge Observer) ORNL has a research reactor called the High Flux Isotope Reactor. And as such, it has several differences than the power reactors in the threatened Japan complexes....3/16 |
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State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) President Barack Obama nominated Mississippi bookstore owner Richard Howorth of Oxford on Thursday to become the newest member of the Tennessee Valley Authority's board of directors....3/18
(USA Today) The Volunteer State's expansion was driven largely by immigrants. Tennessee's Hispanic population grew faster than any other group — 134% to 290,059 — more than doubling to almost 5% of the population....3/18 |
National
(BBC) Japan has raised the alert level at a stricken nuclear plant from four to five on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents....3/18
(Washington Post) The United Nations on Thursday authorized the use of "all necessary measures" to protect civilians in Libya, opening the door to air and naval attacks against the forces of leader Moammar Gaddafi as he vowed to level the city of Benghazi, the last major rebel stronghold....3/18 |
(PhysOrg) Scientists of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck, Austria, have succeeded in producing controlled strong interactions between two fermionic elements - lithium-6 and potassium-40....3/18