(Asheville Citizen-Times) A new supercomputer just over the state line could help tidy up the archives of data streamed down from satellites circling the globe and stored in Asheville.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is installing a new climate research supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to help researchers model and understand changes to the Earth's climate...1/8
(Tennessee Today) Professor Edgar Stach is the first faculty member of the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to receive a joint appointment with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the university...1/6 |
(PhysOrg) Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Fusion Pellet Fueling Lab has been at the center of design and testing of plasma fueling systems for tokamak research applications for decades...1/6
(ICIS) Widespread use of carbon fiber for high-volume automobile production will require significant reduction in the carbon fiber composites processing costs in addition to the carbon fiber cost," says a company official at US-based Dow Chemical...To that end, Dow has development partnerships with Turkey-based AKSA, a world-leading acrylics fiber maker; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)...1/9
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Department of Energy employees in Oak Ridge raised $66,551 for the Combined Federal Campaign in 2011. The federal campaign supports more than 25,000 local, national and international non-profit organizations...1/6
(Dearborn Patch) A $730 million loan expected to be granted to Severstal North America has been denied, the U.S. Department of Energy confirmed Friday...1/6
State & Regional
(Tennessean) Nissan’s engine assembly plant in Decherd, Tenn., got a major boost Sunday that could mean more jobs via a joint project with Mercedes-Benz to make engines for new compact sedans each company plans to introduce within two years...1/8
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National
(CBS News) An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday, in a case adding to the accelerating tension between the United States and Iran...1/9
(USA Today) The soaring national debt has reached a symbolic tipping point: It's now as big as the entire U.S. economy. The amount of money the federal government owes to its creditors, combined with IOUs to government retirement and other programs, now tops $15.23 trillion...1/9
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The conundrum known as the city’s employee pension shortfall may be put before voters in November. The Great Recession left the pension with $460 million in funding, not enough to sustain future benefits the city has promised to its employees...1/8
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