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(Nanowerk) Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe and atomic force microscopy, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have just received the prestigious Microscopy Today Innovation Award for the development of Band Excitation, a new breakthrough scanning probe microscopy technology...8/13
(Scientific Computing) The first petascale supercomputers — now deployed in the U.S., Germany and China — employ more than 100,000 processor cores each, multiple processor types in most cases, and distributed memory architectures...To date, three real-world applications have broken the petaflop barrier (1015 calculations/second), all on the Cray “Jaguar” supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory...8/12
(PRNewswise) Despite a year of temperature extremes, the Tennessee Valley Authority has seen significant energy savings at its research project for energy efficient homes...Partners in the TVA project include Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Electric Power Research Institute...8/12 |
(Communications of the ACM) Superconducting materials, which transmit power resistance-free, are found to perform optimally when high- and low-charge density varies on the nanoscale level, according to research performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In research toward better understanding the dynamics behind high-temperature superconductivity, the ORNL scientists rewrote computational code for the numerical Hubbard model that previously assumed copper-compound superconducting materials known as cuprates to be homogenous—the same electron density—from atom to atom...8/12
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) During his visit to Pantex on Wednesday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu participated in the dismantlement of the last W62 nuclear warhead and declared it a done deal. "Completed a full year ahead of schedule, the W62 dismantlement program safely and securely took apart the retired 1970s era warhead, which will never again be a part of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile," the NNSA said in announcing the milestone...8/12
(Knoxville News Sentinel) One of the top priorities after the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility was constructed and certified at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant was to get the HEU out of Building 9720-5 -- a World War II-era structure known for decades as "The Warehouse."...8/11
(DOE Press Release) President Obama's Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president today on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years...8/12
(DOE Press Release) Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today a new loan guarantee solicitation for renewable energy manufacturing projects...8/12
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National
Chicago (AP) Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a prevention effort that has become a national public health priority...8/12
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The state’s largest solar power system made its official debut today with the help of an array of local officials touting the benefits of the sweltering August sun. Set on five acres in East Knox County, the installation produces one megawatt of electricity, enough to power about 125 homes...8/12 |
Award-Winning Supercomputer Application Solves Superconductor Puzzle
State’s largest solar power plant comes online