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Senate bill has zero funds for ITER; Alexander says money could be better...
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Appropriations energy and water subcommittee, said there is an effort each year to try to control costs by eliminating at least one...
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ORAU awards junior faculty grants totaling $175K
Oak Ridge Associated Universities has awarded research grants to 35 junior faculty members at ORAU’s member institutions. The winners include Maik Lang, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at...
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A modestly good report at SNS
The Spallation Neutron Source is operating “reasonably well” at beam power levels between 1.1 megawatts and 1.3. megawatts, and the research instruments are operating like they should, according to...
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2014 foreigner visits to ORNL by country
Aerial view of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, looking west. (ORNL photo) Earlier this year, I reported that China had once again topped the list of foreigner visits to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in...
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Four from ORNL get early-career grants
Grant winners from left are Christian Engelmann, Cory Hauck, Katharine Page and Chad Parish. (ORNL photos) Four researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive at least $500K a year a year...
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ORNL’s Paranthaman honored
Parans Paranthaman, a researcher in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Chemical Sciences Division, has been named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society. According to information provided by ORNL,...
View ArticleORAU awards Pollard Scholarships
Oak Ridge Associated Universities has awarded five Pollard Scholarships to children of ORAU employees. The scholarships are valued at $2,500 for undergraduate studies for the 2015-2016 academic year....
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ORNL hails biofuel progress
The BioEnergy Science Center is based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (DOE photo) Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced Wednesday that development of a new strain of yeast may dramatically add to...
View ArticleMichelle Buchanan to speak at FORNL
Michelle Buchanan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s associate lab director for physical sciences will be guest speaker at the June 9 lunch sponsored by Friends of ORNL. Her topic will be, “Grand...
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HFIR to emerge from year’s longest outage
The High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is scheduled for restart on Tuesday, June 9, following the longest outage of the year — 81 days. I hope to have more information next week...
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Good vibrations at ORNL
Ayyoub M. Momen, a research engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, talks about how he came up with the idea for a clothes dryer that doesn’t use heat. (KNS photo/Michael Patrick) A new-age clothes...
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ORNL collaborates with Hyundai
Oak Ridge National Laboratory this week announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Motor Co. to strengthen the automaker’s research and development capabilities and perhaps...
View ArticleKodak & ORNL
Eastman Kodak Co. announced this week that it had entered into an agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory “to increase national competitiveness in roll-to-roll manufacturing, thus accelerating...
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ORNL opening doors to business, July 14-15
Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be welcoming businesses from throughout the region and beyond for a two-day conference called “Explore ORNL.” According to information released by the laboratory, the...
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ORNL researchers see the light for safer runways
James Klett, a senior research engineer who specializes in carbon materials, fields a call last week at his lab at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are...
View Article‘Small World’ at Oak Ridge museum
The American Museum of Science & Energy is hosting the annual exhibit of award-winning micrographs from the Nikon Small World competition. The exhibit will be at the Department of Energy’s Oak...
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Stormy times at SNS
Overview of the Spallation Neutron Source and affiliated facilities on Chestnut Ridge. Click on pic to enlarge. (ORNL photo) Big Science sometimes brings big headaches, further evidenced by events of...
View ArticleSNS back to business
Kevin Jones of Oak Ridge National Laboratory this afternoon confirmed that the Spallation Neutron Source had returned to action, with a beam power of about 1 megawatt. Jones earlier reported the news...
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Three new Corporate Fellows at ORNL
Newly named Corporate Fellows, from left, Nancy Dudney, Lonnie Love, and David Radford. (ORNL photos) Three of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s most productive researchers — Nancy Dudney, Lonnie Love...
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