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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

 

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

ORNL honors small businesses
(Oak Ridger) Seven local and national small businesses, whose services range from clean energy to office supplies, have been honored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory for their work efforts and support of the laboratory mission and operations. The 9th Annual Small Business Subcontractor Awards Program was held recently at the laboratory conference center...4/29

UT-Battelle team to help build Anderson County Habitat house
(VolunteerTV.com) A crew of volunteers from Team UT-Battelle gathered this weekend to begin construction of a Habitat for Humanity house in Clinton’s Hickory Ridge Subdivision. Team-UT Battelle is a volunteer service organization of staff from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The group has more than 2,000 participants who have contributed to a number of Habitat homes and more than 30 service projects in the Oak Ridge area...4/28

Brown opens institute for molecular and nanoscale innovation
(GEN) The Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation (IMNI) is a major new research center at Brown University that focuses on techniques and products involving nanometer-scale structures tiny structures with dimensions generally ranging from 1 to 100 nanometers....It will partner with the Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (Mass.), General Motors and the NanoBusiness Alliance...4/28

Weigand recipient of DOE secretary's award
(Oak Ridger) Gilbert G. Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate has received the inaugural James R. Schlesinger Award from Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman...Weigand is credited with conceiving and implementing DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), which pooled government programs and national laboratories to build the world's best high-performance supercomputers. High-performance computing and simulation at the ASCI level now pervade all areas of science and engineering...4/28

Local DOE :

Department of Energy recognizes Oak Ridge contractor for safe work performance
(Oak Ridger) The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office recognized a local technical and engineering services firm for more than 3 million workhours without a lost-time injury...4/29

community:
Governor visits; ’pre-K pioneer' acknowledged
(Oak Ridger) Getting a head start on education before kindergarten can make all the difference. Just ask Kim Holt, the parent of a 5-year-old student at the Oak Ridge schools' Preschool. Kim's daughter, Hope, was delivered at 27 weeks' gestation, and doctors told the family that the baby would have lots of problems, Kim told participants of Monday's pre-K roundtable discussion with Gov. Phil Bredesen...4/28

state & regional :

TVA bid process was flawed
(Tennessean) When TVA wanted to know whether it should finish a nuclear reactor north of Chattanooga, it hired the private company Bechtel to oversee a $20 million study. Based on that study, TVA decided to complete the reactor — and then contracted with Bechtel to do the job...4/29

 

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL:

A Tantalizing Look at Iran’s Nuclear Program
(NY Times) Barbed wire and antiaircraft guns ring a maze of buildings in the Iranian desert that lie at the heart of the West’s five-year standoff with Tehran over its program to enrich uranium. It is a place of secrets that Iran loves to boast about, clouding the effort’s real status and making Western analysts all the more eager for solid details and clues. Tehran insists that its plans are peaceful. But Washington and its allies see a looming threat...4/29

Iran takes goodwill tour to India
(CS Monitor) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stops in India Tuesday after visiting Pakistan and Sri Lanka on a trip aimed at inking energy deals and curbing the West's influence...4/29

ENERGY & SCIENCE POLICY:

Inside Energy Extra - 4/28 A daily report on U.S. energy policy [pdf file; ORNL subscription - internal use]

doe:

Super fast ... Super big ... Supercomputer
(The Columbus Dispatch) ...The Ohio Supercomputer Center has about 2,000 users that include universities, state agencies, hospitals, private businesses, the military and the National Institutes of Health...4/29

science & technology:

Carbon Footprint Of Best Conserving Americans Is Still Double Global Average
(Science Daily) An MIT class has estimated the carbon emissions of Americans in a wide variety of lifestyles -- from the homeless to multimillionaires, from Buddhist monks to soccer moms -- and compared them to those of other nations...4/29

"Extinct" Plants Discovered Blooming in Australia
(National Geographic News) Two woodland plants long thought extinct have reappeared in far northern Australia, experts announced recently. Teucrium ajugaceum, a pink-flowered mint that lives in eucalypt woodlands, had not been seen since 1891 and was listed as extinct in 1992...4/28

Scientists make chemical cousin of DNA for use as new nanotechnology building block
(PhysOrg.com) In the rapid and fast-growing world of nanotechnology, researchers are continually on the lookout for new building blocks to push innovation and discovery to scales much smaller than the tiniest speck of dust...4/29

workforce:

Pitfalls of Working Past Retirement Age
(The Wall Street Journal) It is no secret that more Americans are working past retirement age. And as economic pressures mount, the decision to remain in the work force -- or return after retiring -- might be less about choice and more about necessity. Regardless, many professionals don't want to stop working -- they just want to work less...4/29

security:
Now Boarding at BWI: Security With Hint of Calm
(Washington Post) Soothing blue lights. Light background noise. Brightly dressed employees who have been trained to create a "calmer environment." A hip spa, right? No. This is how top government officials imagine the airport security checkpoint of the future. In fact, the atmosphere is so calming that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday forgot to remove his shoes -- a major no-no -- while demonstrating the prototype checkpoint's screening process for reporters at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport...4/29 [Registration Required]

other stories :

Expert: U.S. population to hit 1 billion by 2100
(USA Today) If the USA seems too crowded and its roads too congested now, imagine future generations: The nation's population could more than triple to 1 billion as early as 2100...4/29

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