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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

 

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

ORNL's impact on industrial economy
(Oak Ridger) Vinod Sikka, a Corporate Fellow of UT-Battelle and a Fellow of ASM International, will discuss the impact of Oak Ridge National Laboratory on our economy at the Roane-Anderson Professional Society meeting...Sikka was employed with ORNL for 34 years and his last post at ORNL was as manager of Research and Technology Development in the Materials Science and Technology Division. Currently he is president of Ross Technology-Oak Ridge, a new start-up company originally out of Pennsylvania...5/6

Local DOE :
If looks alone could kill, Y-12 site would be deadly
(Knoxville News Sentinel) When Parsons won the contract to design the government's new storage complex for bomb-grade uranium, the company was asked to incorporate a number of security features to help make the site safe from terrorism and natural disasters. As the terrorist threat changed and evolved, some design tweaks were necessary as well - even after construction was under way...5/7

community:

Connecting Oak Ridge's past, present
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Tantalizing tidbits about a best-selling writing team's new novel set in Oak Ridge were dangled Tuesday before an eager audience. But famed forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass and his co-author, Jon Jefferson, left their listeners hungry for more...5/7

EnergySolutions sues for right to store foreign waste
Salt Lake City (AP) EnergySolutions Inc. filed a federal lawsuit just a few days before Utah plans to veto the disposal of radioactive waste in the state...The company would import the waste through Charleston, S.C., or New Orleans and process it in Oak Ridge. After processing, 1,600 tons of waste would be disposed at its facility in Tooele County, about 70 miles west of Salt Lake City...5/7

JMS students sweep math competition
(Oak Ridger) The future Einsteins and Newtons of the world could one day look back on their grade school education and fondly credit an East Tennessee-based math competition with encouraging their success...5/7

state & regional :
Bredesen sets goals for energy task force
Nashville (AP) With Tennesseans using more electricity per capita than in any other state, Gov. Phil Bredesen hopes an advisory panel can find solutions to curbing the state's energy appetite...Jeff Wadsworth, a former director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and now an executive with Battelle Memorial Institute, laid out the situation in a briefing. He says Tennessee ranks 14th in the nation per capita in carbon emissions, 16th in overall energy consumption and first in electricity consumption...5/7

TVA eyes waste recycling
(Knoxville News Sentinel) TVA has received $4 million from the Department of Energy to develop a conceptual design for a nuclear waste reprocessing plant, with an eye toward building a demonstration facility, possibly on the former Clinch River Breeder Reactor site...TVA could end up collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory or other DOE labs on the effort, Kilgore said, but that involvement is still in the discussion phase...5/7

 

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL:

Russia's Medvedev takes power, pledges freedom
Moscow (Reuters) Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russian president in a solemn ceremony in the Kremlin's throne room on Wednesday, beginning an unprecedented period of dual rule with his predecessor Vladimir Putin...5/7

ENERGY & SCIENCE POLICY:

Inside Energy Extra - 5/6 A daily report on U.S. energy policy [pdf file; ORNL subscription - internal use]

doe:

DOE Awards $126.6 Million for Two More Large-Scale Carbon Sequestration Projects
(DOE Press Release) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards of more than $126.6 million to the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) and the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) for the Department’s fifth and sixth large-scale carbon sequestration projects...5/6

DOE plan for nuke waste is reshelved
(The Columbus Dispatch) Some say a multibillion-dollar recycling center for nuclear waste would be an economic blessing for southern Ohio. Others see it as little more than a radioactive waste dump...5/7

science & technology:

Scientists probe new class of superconductor
(CS Monitor) Scientists around the world are scrambling to unlock the secrets behind a new group of materials that act as autobahns for electricity – conducting current with virtually no wasteful resistance...5/7

Is quantum Internet search on the way?
(PhysOrg.com) In classical computing, random access memory (RAM) is needed to make things “work.” But it is subject to a certain level of energy loss. But what if you could create low-energy quantum access memory (QRAM) that would not only work in terms of quantum computing, but that could also be applied to classical computing?...5/7

Powerful New Laser Could Aid Search For Extrasolar Planets
(Popular Science) Scientists have shown off a new laser that boasts an incomparable mix of speed, short pulses and power. That's newsworthy in and of itself, but this laser, developed by researchers at the University of Konstanz in Germany and, here in the U.S., at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, could also lead to a 100-fold increase in the sensitivity of observatories searching for extrasolar planets...5/6

security:
Program to allow air travelers to speed through Customs checks
(USA Today)
Starting Monday, air travelers can sign up to speed through Customs checkpoints at select U.S. airports when they return from trips abroad. A government program called Global Entry will enable U.S. citizens and permanent residents to avoid the long lines that often greet them when they get off airplanes arriving from international destinations...5/7

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