OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source, or SNS, is a pulsed accelerator that produces neutrons for science, bringing researchers from all over the world to conduct experiments to gain insights across a wide range of fields including biology, materials and energy sciences, physics, engineering and chemistry. To say the accelerator is a highly com  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a chemical "chameleon" that could improve the process used to purify rare-earth metals used in clean energy, medical and national security applications. The study, performed in collaboration with Vanderbilt University, is the latest of many efforts by ORNL's Chemical Sciences Divisio  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Chattanooga, Tenn. -- [September 11, 2024] -- The Tennessee office of Trust for Public Land (TPL) and the City of Chattanooga are celebrating their selection as recipients of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Community Change Grant - part of the largest environmental justice investment in U.S. history. The selection is being celebrated at a public ceremony at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Septemb  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: As high-tech companies ramp up construction of massive data centers to meet the business boom in artificial intelligence, one component is becoming an increasingly rare commodity: electricity. Commercial demand for electricity has been growing sharply in recent years and is projected to increase by 3% in 2024 alone, according to the U.S. Energy Information Adminis  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: On a recent morning, a self-driving car navigated a curvy Chattanooga street by "listening" to the road's reflective lane markers. Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Western Michigan University researchers demonstrated the technology to officials with the City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County, Tennessee. The research team is setting the stage to commercialize the  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: For the first time, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will run equipment developed at its research facilities on a commercially available quantum network at EPB Quantum Network powered by Qubitekk. Starting this month, ORNL is testing its Automatic Polarization Compensation, or APC, a key technology needed to convey quantum data across a netwo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Katy Bradford is on a mission to revolutionize the construction industry. Bradford, a doctoral candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Department of Energy Building Technologies Office, or BTO, Innovation in Buildings fellow, is the founder of Cassette Construction, a company in the newest cohort of Innovation Crossroads, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepre  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists using high-resolution aerial scans and computational modeling concluded that wildfires, storms and selective logging have become key drivers behind rainforest carbon emissions, outpacing clear-cutting practices. The team used drones equipped with light detection and ranging sensors, or LiDAR, to measure tree biomass and carbon emissions in Brazilian fore  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 2:24-cv-00065; M.D. Tenn. filed Sept. 9, 2024) involving Retirement Specialty Group Inc. and Donald Anthony Wright: * * * SEC Charges Tennessee Investment Adviser and its Owner with Religious Affinity Fraud * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged Cookeville, Tennessee resident Donald Anthony Wright and his company, Retirement Specialty Group, Inc., an SEC-registe  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Office of Science has selected Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Matthew Loyd for an Early Career Research Program award. Loyd, an R&D staff scientist in the Neutron Technologies Division, was selected by the Basic Energy Sciences program for his proposal, "Development of a Novel High-Count-Rate, High-Resolution Neutron Camera with   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- NASA issued the following news release: Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $973.7 million. Following a phase-in period that starts Tuesday, Oct. 1 and runs to   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news: "The Library of Congress is a special place. It's so much more than the beautiful building and the books, the manuscripts. It is a utopia, and you have the opportunity to explore that each and every day." Those are the words of Amara Alexander, an alumnus of the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship who was placed at the Library of Congress duri  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news: ORISE's REAC/TS recently hosted a delegation from the Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority. The Japanese delegation spent a full day at ORNL before coming to the REAC/TS Cytogenetic Biodosimetry Laboratory, where they were given a briefing by Dr. Carol Iddins and Dr. Adayabalam Balajee on the role of REAC/TS and the CBL, respectively. The Japan Nuclear Regula  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news on Sept. 10, 2024: In a landmark decision announced last week, Orano USA has selected Oak Ridge for the site of a new multibillion dollar uranium enrichment facility, representing the single largest investment in Tennessee's history. Gov. Bill Lee announced the news during a press conference at the Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center. He was joi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Across the world, more than 90 countries have joined together to protect radioactive sources from falling into the hands of adversaries. This global community actively searches for lost or stolen material using radiation portal monitors that scan people, cars, trucks, trains and luggage at airports, seaports, border crossings and other international checkpoints. Of   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL will demonstrate the platform's agility by running three demonstrations simultaneously the repair of a wind turbine gear; the production of a component using readily available materials that typically would be cast; and the creation of six unique challenge coins, each made daily from the same injection mold. The platform makes variability of each mold possible.  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news: Jonathan Blutinger, Ph.D., an ORISE postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Soldier Center, has been named the winner of the 2024 ORISE Ignite Off! competition. The annual ORISE Ignite Off! showcases the talents of interns and fellows from federal agencies and offices as they share their research throug  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: After 35 years at Y-12 National Security Complex, Scott Abston was ready to retire. Or so he thought. When Abston heard about a position in the Isotope Science and Engineering Directorate's Isotope Processing and Manufacturing Division, or IPMD, Abston reconsidered his retirement plans. He applied for the job, wanting an opportunity to both support isotope product  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2024: The United States today filed a complaint in intervention alleging violations of the False Claims Act by Clarksville Pain Institute, LLC, Pain Institute of Nashville, PLC, Michael Cox, and Debbie Cox, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Thomas J. Jaworski for the Middle District of Tennessee. The complaint also includes the common law claims of u  more