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(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Department of Energy and its contractor team are moving forward with a controversial $384 million project that will "down-blend" a stockpile of uranium-233 to remove its fission capability and prepare the highly radioactive material for disposal at the Nevada Test Site... 8/24
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(Times Daily) "The analytical methods that we had back in the '60s and '70s when those plants were designed were very primitive compared to what we can do today," said Daniel T. Ingersoll, senior program manager for the Nuclear Programs Technology Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory... 8/23
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DOE
(Nanotechwire) Elena Shevchenko, nanoscientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has joined a select list of the world's youngest top innovators chosen by Technology Review magazine for her work at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials... 8/23
(NY Times) At many of the agency’s buildings, even at national laboratories where talented scientists seek technological breakthroughs to save energy, the department has failed to use one of the most effective tools available to any ordinary household: thermostats that automatically dial back the temperature when nobody is around... 8/22
(Global Security) The K-27 gaseous diffusion plant was an addition to the neighboring K-25 facility, where demolition operations are under way. Funds for the K-27 building's demolition were provided under the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act... 8/21
(Oak Ridger) During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was used to create medical isotopes in conjunction with the four remaining pilot calutrons at Y-12 located in Building 9731... 8/21
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State & Regional
(WBIR) The United States maintains a hardline policy opposing countries' use of civilian nuclear reactors to produce material for weapons, including Iran and North Korea. But that is what the U.S. Department of Energy has been doing at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar reactor in East Tennessee since 2003... 8/24
(Chattanooga Times Free Press)
True to their name, some of TVA's fossil plants could become extinct dinosaurs for the nation's biggest government utility within the next five years... 8/24
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Two security guards at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant have taken shifts for up to two months at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, and 16 other Oak Ridge guards have volunteered for the hazardous duty to alleviate personnel shortages in Kabul... 8/22
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Earlier this year when James Bell applied for a federally funded weatherization program, he hoped to trim his monthly utility bill by upgrading his windows and making other energy-efficiency improvements to his more than 30-year-old home. Nearly eight months later, in spite of an infusion of federal stimulus dollars and expansion of program guidelines to include more participants, Bell's opinion of the initiative is less than complimentary... 8/23
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