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(Knoxville News Sentinel) A company created with technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory appears headed to Ohio after a $1 million investment from Cincinnati venture capitalists. NanoDection Detection is receiving a $250,000 investment from CincyTech, an investment partnership with both state and private funds, $100,000 from Southern Ohio Creates Companies and funds from a private investor. The an additional $1 million is being sought to complete the round of investment...12/20
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(Eurekalert) Four researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society. David Christen, David Geohegan, Xun-Li Wang and William Weber were named APS fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to physics. APS fellowship is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the society's membership...12/17
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DOE
(WBIR) Contracted workers at several local Department of Energy sites will be seeing a freeze in pay for the next two years. Following federal employee pay freezes nationwide announced last month, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said contracted workers at 28 Department of Energy sites and laboratories will also see salary freezes. This includes workers at Y-12, ORNL and ORAU...12/17
(Cypress Times) Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Thursday the Department of Energy's intent to fund up to $50 million to test and demonstrate innovative technologies that will lead to cost-competitive solar energy technologies...12/18
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Two years after the disastrous coal ash spill in Kingston, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of enacting the first federal standards for the disposal of ash from coal-fired power plants...12/19 |
National
(Bloomberg) Payrolls decreased in 28 U.S. states and the unemployment rate climbed in 21, showing most parts of the world’s largest economy took part in the November labor- market setback...12/17
(New York Times) The top two Senate Republicans declared Sunday that they would vote against President Obama’s nuclear treaty with Russia as the bipartisan spirit of last week’s tax-cut deal devolved into a sharp battle over national security in the waning days of the session...12/19
(Washington Post) The U.S. military will for the first time in history allow gays to serve openly after the Senate voted Saturday to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," the policy that has required such troops to hide their sexual identity or risk being expelled from the services...12/19
State and Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) In a time of economic crisis and high unemployment rates, Emmette Thompson, executive director of the Mission of Hope, hopes someday to join the ranks of the unemployed. "I'd love to tell people that I speak to that we're working ourselves out of a job," Thompson said, "but that would be a bold-faced lie."...12/19
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