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Losing bidder files protest on $1.4B ORISE contract
The losing bidder on the $1.4 billion contract to manage the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education has filed a protest with a federal court. DOE last month awarded the...
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Titan taking giant steps while ORNL preps for next great supercomputer
Buddy Bland, director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, pauses amid the cabinets of Titan, the Cray XK7 supercomputer that’s capable of 20 million billion calculations per second....
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SNS outage in 2017 will be extra long
In order to introduce heavy water into the target cooling system, workers at the Spallation Neutron Source will load the cooling loops next year during the planned replacement of the “inner reflector...
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Who’ll buy heavy water?
Oak Ridge National Laboratory manages the Department of Energy’s Isotope Business Office and, as such, will be storing and selling some of the 32 tons of heavy water acquired in a deal with Iran. Once...
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ORNL’s Fernandez-Baca honored
Jaime Fernandez-Baca, a research group leader in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Quantum Condensed Matter Division, has been named a fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America. The society...
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Amendment would prohibit future purchases of heavy water from Iran
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., earlier this week filed an amendment to the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Bill that would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to purchase additional quantities of...
View ArticleClean energy shindig
The 7th annual Clean Energy Ministerial and inaugural Mission Innovation will be held June 1-2 iin San Francisco, with delegates from more than 20 countries, including China and India and France. U.S....
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Young stars at ORNL get early-career funding
Travis Humble, Melanie Mayes, Wellington Muchero and Clayton Webster of Oak Ridge National Laboratory were among 49 young researchers selected for Early Career Research Awards by the Department of...
View ArticleSenate passes Energy & Water Appropriations Bill
The Senate earlier today passed the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill for FY 2017, which would provide a big boost in funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science and would...
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A mercury research facility at creekside
A Field Research Station where Oak Ridge scientists can study mercury in East Fork Poplar Creek is still in the works, even though the Department of Energy recently pulled back its proposal to...
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The senator’s view of the Summit
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., in a recent news release announcing the Senate’s passage of FY 2017 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, said something he’s fond of saying. “Once again, the...
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Mason receives honorary degree from UT
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason last week received an honorary doctorate in science from the University of Tennessee. (UT photo)
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Science bye-byes at ORNL accelerator
Physicists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted a final series of experiments at the Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator earlier this spring, and Bill Cabage of lab’s public affairs staff summed up...
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Ian Greeley gets UT-Battelle Scholarship
Ian Greeley, a senior at Knoxville Catholic High School, has been named the winner of the 2016 UT-Battelle Scholarship and will attend the University of Tennessee. Greeley is shown in photo with Oak...
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SNS has strong run leading up to summer maintenance outage
Aerial view of the Spallation Neutron Source atop Chestnut Ridge at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (ORNL photo) The Spallation Neutron Source, which resumed operations on March 30 after replacing a...
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ORNL to open office in Chattanooga
Oak Ridge National Laboratory made it official today, with ORNL Director Thom Mason’s announcing that the lab would open an office in Chattanooga at the EPB headquarters. In a release, Mason said,...
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Tarcza named manager of DOE’s Oak Ridge Office
Kenneth R. Tarcza, former chief of staff for the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command, has been named manager of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office. As part of that role, he...
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Metis — a little bit of Titan
Buddy Bland, director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explains Metis to me during a visit to ORNL earlier this spring. Metis is a two-cabinet Cray XK7 system that’s used by lab...
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Salute to an ORNL star
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Tom Wilbanks, a long-time Corporate Research Fellow who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for work on global climate change, is shown here in 2012 photo in his...
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ORNL’s Kalinin in elite company
Sergei Kalinin, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, has been named one of 31 national finalists for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young...
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