ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec. 7 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 6, 2023, entitled "Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses in Tennessee - 2022": * * * Private industry employers reported 55,400 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in Tennessee in 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Regional Commissioner Victoria G. Lee noted that this r  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Four researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named ORNL Corporate Fellows in recognition of significant career accomplishments and continued leadership in their scientific fields. Corporate Fellow is the highest recognition for members of the ORNL research staff. Paula Cable-Dunlap, Miaofang Chi, Scott Smith and Peter Thornto  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Sangkeun "Matt" Lee, a computer scientist in the Discrete Algorithms Group, received the Best Poster Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 24th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. Lee's paper at the August conference in Bellevue, Washington, combined weather and power outage data for three states - Texas, Michigan a  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Energy Exascale Earth System Model team's Simple Cloud Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model won the Association for Computing Machinery's 2023 Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate. Credit: SC23 A 19-member team of scientists from across the national laboratory complex won the Association for Computing Machinery's 2023 Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate Modeling fo  more

DOVER, Tennessee, Dec. 7 -- The National Park Service Fort Donelson National Cemetery issued the following news release on Dec. 6, 2023: On Saturday, December 16. members of the Stewart County community, as well as attendees from well outside of the local area, will gather at Fort Donelson National Cemetery to pay honor as part of Wreaths Across America Day - the purpose of the national program being to "Remember the Fallen; Honor those who Serve; and to Teach our children of the value of Freed  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and cleanup contractor UCOR recently hosted a new safety culture assistance team that will visit DOE worksites to identify strengths and any gaps to excellence. A 21-person team of individuals from DOE headquarters, various DOE prime contractors, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and electric utilit  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Dec. 7, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced today they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and potentially other Federal facilities in TVA's service territory, with 100% locally supplied carbon pollution-free electricity (CFE) by 2030. In Dec  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Eric Nafziger works on the infrastructure support for a 40,000-pound locomotive research engine designed to run on hydrogen. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy As a technical staff member, Eric Nafziger provides the expertise needed to install large marine and rail engines that run on alternative fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia and biofuels. Credit:   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A team of eight scientists won the Association for Computing Machinery's 2023 Gordon Bell Prize for their study that used the world's first exascale supercomputer to run one of the largest simulations of an alloy ever and achieve near-quantum accuracy. The ACM Gordon Bell Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The team received their   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Students from the U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy are taking their education to space. Nuclear engineering students are leaning on mentorship from researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to complete design concepts for a nuclear propulsion rocket to go to space in 2027 as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc  more

OXFORD, Mississippi, Dec. 7 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Clay Joyner, issued the following news release on Dec. 6, 2023: A Memphis, Tennessee man was sentenced today to 62 months imprisonment following his conviction for his role in a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration ("SBA") by submitting fraudulent loan applications to the SBA for over $11 Million. According to court documents, Norman Beckwood, 29, of Memphis, recruited individuals to submi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Mat Doucet, left, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sarah Blair of the National Renewable Energy Lab used neutrons to understand an electrochemical way to produce ammonia. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are turning air into fertilizer without leavi  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice issued the following news release: NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne joined University of Tennessee-Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman, state and local officials, law enforcement experts and NIJ staff and grantees on Monday, December 4, to highlight the impact and advances of forensic science and substantial new NIJ grant awards in the field. The event included a visit to the University's   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56871) involving G.E. Healthcare dba Medi+Physics, Memphis, Tennessee: * * * Rep Org: Illinois Emergency Mgmt. Agency Licensee: G.E. Healthcare DBA/Medi+Physics Region: 1 City: Memphis State: TN License #: IL-01109-01 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: Gary Forsee HQ OPS Officer: Ernest West Notification Date: 11/22/2023 Notification Time: 16:41 [ET] Event Date: 11/21/2023 Event Time: 00  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Research performed by a team, including scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, or ORNL and Argonne National Laboratory, has resulted in a Best Paper Award at the 19th IEEE International Conference on eScience. The conference was held in Limassol, Cyprus in October. Titled "Asynchronous Decentralized Bayesian Optimization for Large   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL and Caterpillar will conduct research on Caterpillar's in-line 6-cylinder marine engine that has been modified for methanol use and installed at DOE's National Transportation Research Center at ORNL. Credit: Caterpillar The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Caterpillar Inc. have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The research team combined a series of advanced computational methods to probe less-explored dynamic phenomena in liquid solutions related to the rate at which carbon dioxide can be captured. The carbon capture process is illustrated above. Credit: Santanu Roy/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: NEXTGENCOMPUTING students learned fundamental computing concepts through an HPC Crash Course before applying those concepts to an AI-based team project. From left to right, front row: Saahithi Gorti, Hannah Bao, Pragya Nidhi. Middle row: Kaiya Barnes, Brianna Andrews, Aninditha Nair, Olivia Heng, Disha Maheshwari, Emma Bohse, Sachi Griffin, Kevin Peng. Back row, Kiera  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. AB 1296) entitled "R.J. Corman Railroad Property LLC - Abandonment Exemption - in Campbell County, Tennessee": * * * On April 21, 2023, R. J. Corman Railroad Property, LLC (RJC Railroad Property), a non-operating Class III rail carrier, submitted a petition under 49 U.S.C. 10502 for an exemption from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903 to abandon wha  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Magnesium oxide is a promising material for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and injecting it deep underground to limit the effects of climate change. But making the method economical will require discovering the speed at which carbon dioxide is absorbed and how environmental conditions affect the chemical reactions involved. Scientists at the De  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Gina Tourassi. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Effective Dec. 4, Gina Tourassi will assume responsibilities as associate laboratory director for the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. CCSD includes more than 500 research staff and is home to the Frontier supercomputer, t  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- The White House on Dec. 4, 2023, sent to the Senate the nominations of two individuals for positions in the federal government: * * * * Kristen Sarri, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, vice Monica P. Medina, resigned. * Douglas Craig Schmidt, of Tennessee, to be Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Department of Defense, vice Nickolas Guertin. * * * Original text here: https://www.  more