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The future is now, right?
Student interns at Oak Ridge National Laboratory get a chance to do all sorts of things that would be unimaginable in normal settings for kids in their teens or early 20s. It’s like a cool dream come...
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Energy, water & Oak Ridge
U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, chairman of the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee, was in Oak Ridge earlier this week with his host and fellow Republican and subcommittee cohort Rep....
View ArticleORAU awards education grants
Oak Ridge Associated Universities has awarded $32,000 in educational grants to local schools. The awards went to 28 teachers at nine East Tennessee schools, and the money will be used for such things...
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ORNL expecting big crowd for ‘Industry Day’
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s first-ever “Industry Day,” which is being held next week (it’s actually a two-day affair, not a single), and lab spokeswoman Morgan McCorkle said about 350 people —...
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ORNL reactor restarts after extended maintenance outage of high importance
Photograph by the Department of Energy/Lynn Freeny The High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was restarted Tuesday following its extended fall outage — the second longest of the...
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ORNL union workers ratify 5-yr contract; agreement includes wage increases...
Union workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Wednesday ratified a new five-year labor contract that will provide them with a 14 percent wage increase over the life of the agreement. Steve Jones,...
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Good news on ORNL’s second-chance Steam Plant
An elevated view of the Boiler Operating Area at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s revised Steam Plant. In photo below right is the exterior of the Steam Plant on the lab’s Central Campus. (ORNL...
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Mason: ITER funding is biggest uncertainty
ORNL Director Thom Mason has a sip of coffee before welcoming visitors at Thursday’s Workshop on Molten Salt Reactor Technologies. I talked a couple of times Thursday with Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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MSRE lore
I saw a few people I hadn’t seen in a while at Thursday’s Molten Salt Reactor Technologies Workshop at ORNL. Among them was Uri Gat, an always-cool guy who brought along a piece of memorabilia.
View ArticleMore evidence of 3-D mania
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the world leaders in additive manufacturing (3-D printing), has signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement for a “portfolio of ORNL patents” with Strangpresse LLC...
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Mason says FY2015 was a pretty good year for ORNL and explains why
Earlier this week, I asked Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason about the state of the lab and to reflect on Fiscal Year 2015, which concluded Sept. 30. I posted some of his thoughts on...
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A third neutron source at ORNL could cost $1.5B
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is known internationally as a place to do neutron-based science experiments, with two of the top neutron sources in the world — the Spallation Neutron Source, pictured...
View ArticleAlexander expresses support for national labs
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee, today spoke on the importance of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in his home state and other national labs as...
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Snacks: BioEnergy Science Center passes audit but . . .
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s BioEnergy Science Center, one of three established by the Department of Energy in 2007 to up the effort on biofuel production, recently got a pretty good review by...
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Nevada institute’s bid to manage ORISE
As posted earlier, Desert Research Institute in September submitted a proposal to manage the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. DRI is apparently the only competitor...
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Special catalyst developed at ORNL
A catalyst developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory reportedly offers special qualities of use in the production of nylon for many products, according to information released by the lab. The lab said...
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Fred Thompson (1942-2015)
U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson talks with famed geneticist Liane Russell at Oak National Laboratory’s Mouse House during a 1996 visit. In photo below, the senator meets with ORNL exec Bill Appleton at the...
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ORNL researchers win six R&D 100 Awards
The Big Area Additive Manufacturing-CI System, which was developed by ORNL researchers working with Cincinnati Inc., was among the 2015 winners of R&D 100 Awards. (ORNL photo) Researchers at Oak...
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ORNL’s Titan retains No. 2 world ranking
The latest biannual Top500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers has been released, with China’s Tianhe-2 still on top of the list — for the sixth consecutive time — and Oak Ridge National...
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ORNL may receive hot nuke fuel for research
The Irradiated Fuels Examination Laboratory, a hot cell facility in the middle of the ORNL campus, would be used for research on spent nuclear fuel from a Virginia reactor under a proposed plan...
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