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December
City
officials: 2002 had its ups and downs (Oak Ridger, 12/31)
As 2002 winds down and 2003 lies ahead, Mayor David Bradshaw and City
Manager Paul Boyer offered their opinions of the highs and the lows for
Oak Ridge in 2002, and what they see on the horizon for the city in 2003.
. . Bradshaw applauded a list of other events he considered successes
for 2002 such as: . . . the appointment of Gerald Boyd as the new DOE
Oak Ridge Operations site manager, plans for the modernization of Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, congressional support for the $1.4 billion
Spallation Neutron Source . . .
Wamp
nets funding for projects in his district (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 12/31)
After six years on the House Appropriations Committee that doles out billions
of dollars in the federal government's 13 spending bills, Rep. Zach Wamp
is getting both praise and criticism for his ability to direct money to
Tennessee. . . The federal government has a massive investment in Oak
Ridge, including the $1.7 billion Spallation Neutron Source project under
construction. The nation's largest science project will study and develop
new materials in areas ranging from ceramics to chemicals.
Frist
could boost state's profile (Tennessean, 12/22)
. . . Billy Stair, communications director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
near Knoxville, said that Frist could do much to expand the laboratory's
research opportunities and bring additional money to the facility. Oak
Ridge has an annual operating budget of $100 million and is home to the
$1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source, a neutron accelerator scheduled
for completion in 2006.
Contract
awarded for SNS land improvements (Oak Ridger, 12/19)
The Spallation
Neutron Source project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded
a $2.4 million construction contract for land improvements to the SNS
linear accelerator (linac) complex. The contract was awarded to GEM
Technologies Inc. of Knoxville. Work is expected to begin this month
and will be completed in about six months.
Economic
developers present legislative wish lists (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 12/13)
Area chambers of commerce gave their wish lists to state
legislators Thursday, highlighting education at a luncheon attended
by about 250 business people, politicians and chamber officials at the
Knoxville Convention Center. . . Mike Arms, a Knox County commissioner
who is chief of staff for Knox County Executive Mike Ragsdale, represented
the Oak Ridge chamber and underscored the opportunity provided by Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. He mentioned the $1.4 billion Spallation
Neutron Source as well as plans to build one of the world's fastest
computers.
November
BUSINESSMEN
BECOME OAK RIDGE BOYS IN DEAL FOR LAB'S NANO RESEARCH (Small Times, 11/26)
In a move that could be a new model for commercializing government research,
a small firm has cut a deal with a major national lab to share nanotechnology-related
intellectual property. . . Furthermore, the lab is currently undergoing
a $1.4 billion, six-year effort to build the Spallation Neutron Source
. . .
October
ORNL
Awards Night honors David for science, technology accomplishments (Oak Ridger, 10/28)
. . . Two awards for operations support by a team were presented. One
was to a multi-division group that included Robert Baird, Angela Calloway,
Lisa A. Copeland, Roy L. Etheridge, Ronald J. Geouque, Al Guidry, Susan
G. Hiser, M. Jack Liles, Barry R. Miller, Virginia L. Miller, Will Minter,
Joel E. Pearman, Nicole E. Porter and William Thornton III. This group
was honored for its outstanding and influential achievements and contributions
to the Spallation Neutron Source Project, the Department of Energy,
ORNL and the East Tennessee procurement community through innovative
procurement strategies, standardized procurement activities and incentive
plan initiatives.
AVANTech
awarded SNS project (Oak Ridger, 10/25)
The Spallation Neutron Source project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
has awarded AVANTech Inc. several contracts exceeding $500,000, according
to an AVANTech press release.
Young
Scientist Leads SNS (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 10/20)
Thom Mason is young, hip and on top of the science world. At 38 years
old, he is director of the Spallation Neutron Source, the largest science
project under construction anywhere. He also wears an earring.
SNS
ahead of schedule (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/20)
Construction
of the Spallation Neutron Source has passed the halfway point, with
a daily work force exceeding 500. Some components already have been
installed, such as the Front End system, and other key facilities including
the Linac and the Storage Ring are taking shape.
Beam
will bring world to Oak Ridge (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/20)Attention:
travel agents. Oak Ridge is about to become the center of the neutron
universe and the destination of choice for thousands of research scientists.
3rd
U.S. HOUSE (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 10/20)
3rd U.S.
HOUSE Zach Wamp . . .With eight years in Congress, Wamp's assignments
include the Interior Subcommittee, which deals with funding of all
federal lands, and the Energy and Water Subcommittee, which deals
with funding for such regional projects as the Chickamauga Lock and
the Spallation Neutron Source.
Cold
War surplus cuts project's cost (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 10/20)
Oak Ridge is best known for its work
on the atomic bomb, and remnants of the Cold War arms race will play
a role at the Spallation Neutron Source. The
project's 40,000-pound mercury target, which will produce neutrons
for research, was acquired from a stockpile of materials at the Y-12
nuclear weapons plant.
Knoxville
News-Sentinel takes an in-depth look into Oak Ridge National
Laboratory's research projects in this week-long science
series.
ORNL Renaissance (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 10/20)
. . ."Quite
honestly, this is the most exciting laboratory in the
country," said Bill Madia, ORNLs director.
"When I look at where science is going and whats
happening at Oak Ridge, there just isnt another
lab with a more positive future." The
nations biggest science project, the $1.4 billion
Spallation Neutron Source, is now halfway to completion
and ahead of schedule, and Oak Ridge won a series of new
projects this year, adding to the momentum.
ORNL is anchored in the nations research mainstream,
according to Madia. . .
Madia
coaching lab to top of research game: Unpretentious director
draws praise from his colleagues, Congress (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 10/20)
Dont
ask Bill Madia about career goals or timetables for personal
success. They dont exist, he insists. Heres
his favorite saying: "If you want to make God laugh,
tell him about your plans."
Lab
linking up to universities, other centers (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 10/21)
Oak
Ridge National Laboratory wants to expand its network
capacity, establishing computer links with other research
institutions around the nation.
ORNL
through the decades (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/18)
1999
- Groundbreaking for the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron
Source.
See ORNL
in the News for more stories in this series |
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Particles of knowledge: Neutrons provide 'look at the real innards' of all kinds
of stuff (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 10/20)
You can't
see neutrons, but neutrons help scientists see in unique ways. Neutrons
are uncharged particles, neither positive or negative, found in the
nuclei of most atoms. By firing neutrons at a material sample and
measuring the angle and energy of their exit, researchers can determine
the exact location of atoms and much more.
New
life for other neutron source: Overhaul returns isotope reactor to research
fore (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/20)
Sometimes lost in the scientific hoopla surrounding the Spallation Neutron
Source is Oak Ridge's "other" billion-dollar neutron source.
Thanks to a $65 million makeover, he High Flux Isotope Reactor is regaining
stature as one of the world's top research reactors.
OR
important to Roane Co. growth, Yager tells League (Oak Ridger, 10/16)
Oak Ridge is also important to Roane County because Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, the Spallation Neutron Source project, Rarity Ridge and
other major economic entities are in Roane County.
Timing
crucial, says minority firm's boss: Company named contractor of year (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/15)
Evans
founded his company eight years ago as an engineering and technical
services firm, but he saw that the Spallation Neutron Source was going
to open more opportunities for contractors.
Jackson
Plaza back on market (Oak
Ridger, 10/11)
A
broker from Atlanta thinks Oak Ridge is not as stagnant as Oak Ridgers
might think. . . . He pointed to the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron
Source, the approximately $225 million federal modernization efforts
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Y-12 upgrades expected to exceed
$1 billion in the next five years, and many proposed contracts, such
as the much-sought-after supercomputer, as evidence that "government
towns are the place to be right now...."
Dick
Smyser -- Seeing the SNS site: A tonic for community complaints (Oak Ridger, 10/10)
A concrete floor 5-feet thick.
The weight of a 40-story building.
The impact of a 16-pound bowling ball dropped from the Sears Tower in
Chicago.
A sidewalk 3 feet wide and 6 inches deep from here to Memphis.
Excavated earth sufficient to fill Neyland Stadium to press box level.
Sixty tractor-trailer loads.
Four layers of golf balls covering the entire state of Tennessee.
The weight of 1,400 elephants.
Al Ekkebus,
manager of user services for the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source,
drops comparisons like these to convey the enormous size and complexity
of this project.
Partnership
sets sights on suiting business site-seers (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/05)
The Tennessee Economic Partnership
invited 13 site consultants to Knoxville for a weekend of football,
receptions and a little prodding to attract the businesses they represent
to the area. The Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership hosted the
event, which included Friday tours of the Spallation Neutron Source
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . . .
Bredesen,
Hilleary spar over roads, taxes and schools (The Tennessean, 10/1)
During the debate, the candidates were asked what sorts of priorities
they would set for the University of Tennessee. . . Bredesen
responded that nearby Oak Ridge and a new neutron spallation project
would be ideal partnering projects for the university as part of a bigger
picture of moving teaching and research at UT to world-class stature.
Elk
not home, home on the reservation (Oak Ridger, 10/1)
Last
week at least three elk were caught on camera checking out the Spallation
Neutron Source site, and those animals -- a bull, a cow and a calf --
will likely be tranquilized and relocated to where they were earlier
released during an East Tennessee elk reintroduction program.
September
SNS:
Just another thrill ride for ions (Oak Ridger, 09/27)
Think
of it as a futuristic thrill-ride for ions. You start at one end of
a very long underground tunnel, say about three football fields in length;
and you shoot ion beams down the tunnel at very high speeds, say accelerating
to 90 percent of the speed of light. Next you whip the newly formed
protons 1,000 times around the gigantic cylinder, then shoot them out
the other end at a liquid mercury target where they are blasted to bits,
or, to neutrons. Then
it's off to a liquid hydrogen bath for cool-down, after which the real
endurance test begins -- a handoff to scientists for experimentation.
At least that's one explanation, say the laypersons, of the instrumentation
that will reside atop Chestnut Ridge once the $1.4 billion Spallation
Neutron Source kicks into gear in 2006.
Clear
skies outside Madia's window (Oak Ridger, 09/26)
With an office window overlooking the largest overhaul of laboratory
facilities since the 1943
Manhattan Project, Bill Madia has good reason for optimism . . . And
if one were to walk to the window and look northeast toward Chestnut
Ridge, one could contemplate the 1.4 billion
Spallation Neutron Source facility, expected to generate an operating
budget of $150 million per year when it comes online; and the $65 million
Nanophase facility, expected to generate a $23 million-per-year operating
budget; and the planned state-funded Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences
-- all three comprising an institution unto itself for the neutron sciences.
Chickamauga
Lock Gets Funding For New Design (The Chattanoogan.com, 09/05)
Quoting
Congressman Wamp, "SNS is scheduled to be completed in 2006 and
once it is finished, it will be one of the premier science centers in
the world used to develop everything from medical miracles to transportation
breakthroughs. This year's funding is what the project needs and it
will keep it on track."
August
Learn
about Oak Ridge and more in ORICL fall term (Oak
Ridger, 08/08)
The Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning is offering
53 courses and six trips during its fall term, Sept. 23
through
Dec. 13. Early registration ends Aug. 28.
"The
Spallation Neutron Source - The Machine and the Science,"
will bring together six Oak Ridge National
Laboratory project and scientific leaders to discuss the
nature and construction of the SNS facility and the science
research that will be carried out using the new, high-intensity
neutron beams.
Presenters will include Thom Mason, David Olsen, Stephen
Spooner, Bryan Cakoumakos, Stephen Nagler and
George Wignall. . .
July
Sentimental
ties to SNS contracts (Oak Ridger, 07/30)
Brannon, a 1977 graduate of Oak Ridge High School, is construction
superintendent for Blaine Construction of Knoxville which teamed with
Caddell Construction Co. of Montgomery, Ala., to take two Spallation
Neutron Source contracts Monday worth a combined $84.6 million.
ORNL
pacts largest since WWII: $86.4 million awarded to build two new facilities (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 07/30)
The $86.4 million contracts were awarded for construction of two
buildings at the Spallation Neutron Source, the $1.4 billion neutron
research facility being built atop Chestnut Ridge in Oak Ridge. "With
these awards almost all of the construction is under contract,"
said Thom Mason, SNS director.
Klystron move to new location in building 8300 at the Spallation
Neutron Source (SNS) site, July 21, 2002.
More
Pictures. |
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ORNL,
Y-12 funding continues forward (Oak
Ridger, 07/24)
A bill boosting funding for Oak Ridge environmental management and
granting the president's request for funding of the Spallation Neutron
Source is making its way toward the U.S. Senate floor.
ORNL
Neutron Science Day
Wednesday, July 24
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Wigner Auditorium, 4500N |
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SNS
funding at $225 million (Oak
Ridger, 07/11)
Support and enthusiasm are still going strong for the Spallation
Neutron Source, with the project's fiscal year 2003 funding expected
to be around $225 million.
June
May
Bradshaw
to have audience with Abraham (Oak Ridger, 05/27)
[Oak Ridge]
Mayor David Bradshaw will make a one-on-one visit to Secretary of Energy
Spencer Abraham Tuesday in Washington, D.C., and plans to take Oak Ridge's
case for enhanced funding with him. "I want to let him know we
are supporters of the things going on here that are Department of Energy
related," said Bradshaw, noting as examples the Spallation Neutron
Source facility under construction,. . .
New
DOE venture may spark turnaround: $2.5 billion was spent in Tennessee
last year (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 05/24)
The Department
of Energy reversed a four-year decline in its impact on Tennessee's
economy last year, thanks to construction of the $1.4 billion Spallation
Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
First
Stage of Spallation Neutron Source Completed -- Project to Be World's
Premier Facility for Neutron Scattering Science (AScribe Newswire, 05/21)
Given that all journeys begin with the first step, a big first step
has been taken on the road to opening the Spallation Neutron Source
(SNS) - what will be the world's premier facility for neutron scattering
science. Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab) have announced the commissioning of the SNS front-end system, the
first of that facility's five major components.
Four
years out, ORNL builds staff for Spallation Neutron Source (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 05/19)
The Spallation Neutron Source wont
become operational until 2006, according to the current timetable, but
Oak Ridge National Laboratory already is building its scientific staff
and hiring others wholl be needed to run the research facilities.
NAMES: (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 05/15
[Scroll down] Bill Appleton, the first irector of the Spallation Neutron
Source, has a piece of the project named after him, but it's not exactly
the most flattering monument. His name is attached to
a settling pond which collects runoff at the Chestnut Ridge site.
A
mini SNS (Oak Ridger, 05/14)
Frank
Kornegay, environment, safety and health manager for the Spallation
Neutron Source project . . . said a model [of the SNS] has been an important
tool in making sure the pieces of the SNS will fit together.
Spallation
system's first piece on the way (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 05/09)
The first of the major technical components
for the Spallation Neutron Source has been completed by a California
laboratory and will be shipped to Oak Ridge next month. The
front-end system was commissioned by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, one of six labs participating in the $1.4 billion
project under construction at Oak Ridge.
What
is spallation?
When
a fast particle, such as a high-energy proton, bombards a
heavy atomic nucleus, some neutrons are "spalled,"
or knocked out, in a nuclear reaction called spallation. Other
neutrons are "boiled off" as the bombarded nucleus
heats up. It's something like throwing a baseball at a bucket
of balls, resulting in a few being immediately ejected and
many more bouncing around and falling out. For every proton
striking the nucleus, 20 to 30 neutrons are expelled. Read
more ...> |
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First
SNS component completed on schedule (Oak Ridger, 05/08)
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have completed
the first of the Spallation Neutron Source's five major components on
time and on budget. Officials
said the front-end system should be shipped to Oak Ridge during the
first week of June. Its four major parts will be separated for shipment.
Dick
Smyser -- SNS millions spent statewide; what, then, is 'spallation'? (Oak Ridger, 05/07)
Things I learned at the Spallation Neutron Source open house at its
offices on Scarboro Road a week ago today..."Most people don't realize
how much neutron-scattering research affects our everyday lives. For example,
things like aircraft; credit cards; pocket calculators; compact discs,
computer discs, and magnetic recording tapes; shatterproof windshields;
adjustable seats; and satellite weather information for forecasts have
all been improved by neutron-scattering research. ...
Manny
Ringer creates quite at stir at ORNL (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 05/06)
Manny Ringer is the nickname of an
emphatically large crane that will be used in construction of the $1.4
billion Spallation Neutron Source. The crane's full name is Manitowac
4600 Series-4 with Ringer.
Business
Names (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 05/05)
Kathy F. Rosenbalm was recognized as the 2002 winner of the Administrative
Professional of the Year at the International Association of Administrative
Professionals luncheon held April 22.
Spallation
Neutron Source (WBIR TV, 05/01)
The $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source project is about 40 percent
complete in Oak Ridge.
SNS
tax status so far unscathed Oak Ridger, 05/01)
Although there was some brief chatter that the Spallation Neutron
Source might be impacted by a proposal to widen the reach of the Tennessee
sales tax, the project's irector says that's not the case. Thom Mason
describes the issue of the SNS's losing its sales tax exemption as one
that in March rose up quickly like a balloon, but sank even faster.
April
SNS
Open House
(.pdf
file)
Tuesday, April 30
4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
at the SNS office building, located at 701 Scarboro Road. |
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With
future at stake, ORNL scans research horizon (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 04/22)
Last week, Riedinger sat down with lab
staff in the ORNL library for an informal roundtable discussion about
the laboratory's future. There were some interesting observations. . .
User facilities: The Spallation Neutron Source is the last of a group
of national user facilities first proposed in the mid-1980s when Al Trivelpiece
was director of energy research at DOE headquarters in Washington. . .
Anyway, Riedinger says now is the time to look to the next group of big-time
user facilities (such as a fourth-generation light source) that need to
be built at national labs.
Bredesen
predicts 'blood on ground' in budget battles (Oak
Ridger, 04/12)
Regarding
Oak Ridge, Bredesen said the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University
of Tennessee offer the "axis" to develop the technology that
can be marketed across the state and beyond. "There's no reason it
(UT) should not be the resource center of the world for the neutron sciences,"
said Bredesen, who holds a degree in physics from Harvard University.
WHAT'S
UP: (Oak Ridger, 04/09) The public will have an opportunity to learn about the status of the
Spallation Neutron Source project during an open house that's scheduled
for 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, at the SNS office building,
located at 701 Scarboro Road.
A
Conversation with Ray Orbach (FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science
Policy News, 04/05)
[Orbach] cited DOE's special role of providing large facilities to
the user community that no university could afford to build on its own.
These facilities are used by a diverse range of scientists, Orbach said,
explaining that the Spallation Neutron Source will benefit biologists
and chemists as well as condensed matter physicists. He also described
the great interest surrounding the department's proposed five nanoscience
centers. Funding for the first at Oak Ridge has been requested for FY
2003, . . .
House
Science Committee Recommendations on S&T Spending (FYI: The
AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, 04/04)
"The Committee continues to closely monitor the construction
of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
especially in light of a recent report by DOE's Inspector General indicating
that capabilities and facilities have been pared back to keep the program
under budget."
Blaine
Construction, SNS contractor, recognized for workplace safety (Oak
Ridger, 04/04)
The Associated
General Contractors of America honored Blaine Construction Co. of Knoxville
as the safest contractor in the nation in its particular building division,
which involves 100,000 to 500,000 annual man-hours.
Our
View: SNS job well done merits high reward (Oak
Ridger, 04/03)
U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp is bullish about Oak Ridge's opportunity to
play a leadership role in new fields of cientific endeavor, and particularly
the nanosciences which promise to redefine the nature and pace of scientific
breakthrough.
March
Picketers
protest hiring of
nonunion workers (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 03/16)
Dozens of construction workers set
up pickets Friday along Bethel Valley Road to protest the hiring of
nonunion workers and the use of non-local ontractors at a modernization
project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. . . Jeff Smith, the lab's
deputy director for operations, said about $1.7 billion is being spent
on projects to modernize ORNL, including the Spallation Neutron Source.
About 96 percent of that work will involve union labor, he said.
SNS:
This is the Big One (Oak Ridger, 03/14)
The $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source is the biggest U.S. science
project under construction. Oak
Ridge National Laboratory officials aren't exaggerating when they make
that statement. Some 5,500 tons of rebar -- reinforcing steel rods --
will be used for project structures. Those structures call for approximately
80,000 cubic yards of concrete, equivalent to a 3-foot-wide sidewalk
that would reach from Knoxville to Memphis (about 400 miles), or the
amount of concrete needed to build the Tennessee Valley Authority's
Fort Loudoun Dam.
People
in Business (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 03/10)
The East Tennessee Economic Development Agency's 2002 board
of directors: . . .Chairman Joe Nemec, president of Bechtel Jacobs Company
LLC. . . Jan Haerer, director of technology transfer and economic development,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory. . . Parker Hardy, president, Oak Ridge
Chamber of Commerce. . . Samuel McKenzie, environmental, safety and
health coordinator,
Spallation Neutron Source . . .
SNS
is topic of Altrusa meeting (Oak Ridger, 03/08)
Judy Trimble, Human Resources manager for the Spallation Neutron Source
office, will discuss the Spallation Neutron Source Project at the meeting
of Altrusa of Oak Ridge at noon on Wednesday, March 13, at First Presbyterian
Church, 1051 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
YET
AGAIN (Oak Ridger, 03/05)
[scroll down] The contracts keep rolling out for the massive Spallation
Neutron Source construction project. Most recently, Vacuum Technology
Inc. of Oak Ridge was awarded a $220,000 equipment supplies deal relating
to the SNS's vacuum residual gas analyzers.
SNS
tax exemption could face scrutiny in state tax proposal (Oak
Ridger, 03/04)
Among the potential victims of a proposal that would widen the reach
of the Tennessee sales tax is the Spallation Neutron Source under construction
in Tennessee, which in 1999 had gained a sales tax exemption on construction
materials and costs.
Area equipment firms win SNS contract (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 03/01)
Wade & Associates will provide air-handling units that will monitor
and regulate air flow throughout the research facilities. . .Meanwhile,
Vacuum Technology Inc. of Oak Ridge was awarded a $220,000 contract
to provide "vacuum residual gas analyzers" that will be distributed
along the SNS's linear accelerator for monitoring purposes.
February
Latest
SNS work goes to local firm (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 02/09)
Blaine Construction Corp. of Knoxville has won a $12.9 million contract
for work on the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
It is the fourth SNS contract received by Blaine over the past couple
of years, with the total value exceeding $25 million.
Funding
for SNS looking good (Oak Ridger, 02/05)
The
Spallation Neutron Source's guardian angel continues to watch over it.
President Bush's fiscal year 2003 budget requests $225 million for the
SNS, which is under construction atop Chestnut Ridge. The $1.4 billion
SNS is the biggest U.S. science project under construction.
Budget
smiles on Oak Ridge: 2003 federal funding generous (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 02/05)
The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and Oak Ridge National Laboratory appeared
to score big in the proposed federal budget for 2003. . . . The Bush administration's
SNS request of $225 million for 2003 is enough to keep the project on
schedule even though it's notably less than this year's allotment of $291
million.
January
Spallation
Neutron Source work will accelerate in 2002 (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 01/27)
As 2001 came to a close, the $1.4 billion SNS was more than a
third complete, and 2002 promises to be the project's busiest
construction period - with hundreds of construction workers
involved at the 75-acre site on Chestnut Ridge.
SNS
construction moving forward (Oak Ridger, 01/25)
The Spallation Neutron Source site is currently booming on an
average workday, with as many as 200 people working on various construction
projects. . . The SNS is the biggest U.S. science project under construction.
Two of the latest and most visible structures at the SNS site are
the 1,000-foot-long Linac Tunnel and a 300,000-gallon water tank that
is close to 200 feet high.
SNS
boosts area economy A third of contracts so far have gone to East
Tennessee firms (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 01/20)
Much of the government's investment in the $1.4 billion
Spallation Neutron Source apparently will stay right here in Tennessee.
Of the $300 million in contracts awarded through the end of 2001,
around a third of that total went to East Tennessee companies.
Blaine
among Knoxville firms with contracts (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 01/20)
Blaine Construction Corp. of Knoxville . . . has bid on five SNS contracts
so far and won three - a winning percentage "that's a lot better
than average," according to Scott Boone, the firm's SNS project
chief. The total value of those contracts is about $14 million.
Names
in Business News (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 01/20)
Joel Pearman has been named president of the East Tennessee chapter
of the National Contract Management Association. Pearman is procurement
compliance manager for the Spallation Neutron Source project at the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
TAKE
A LOOK: (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 01/09)
Want to see your tax dollars at work? Take a peek at the
live Web cam of the Spallation Neutron Source, the $1.4 billion research
complex under construction near Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. (Scroll down the page).
http://it.sns.ornl.gov/webcam/
OR
facility to take 'pretty good chunk of power' from TVA (Knoxville
News-Sentinel, 01/07)
When the Spallation Neutron Source
begins operation in 2006, as currently scheduled, TVA will have a big
new customer. The Oak Ridge research complex will have a power
capacity of 70 mega-watts - roughly the amount of electricity needed
for 35,000 homes.
SNS
deals awarded (Oak Ridger, 01/03)
Blaine Construction Corp. of Knoxville has been awarded two contracts
-- totaling $11.6 million -- for construction work on the Spallation
Neutron Source project.
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