The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) released a Record of Decision (ROD) for Project Pele, a program intended to design, build, and demonstrate a mobile microreactor.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (April 13, 2022) – The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing InnovationÒ (IACMI) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) announced today a new partnership aimed at revitalizing U.S. manufacturing with a focus on the machine tool industry. Machine tools are a foundational element of America’s advanced manufacturing capabilities, which are essential to the country’s national security and continued economic vitality.
Talk of a new regional economic development hub was put into action on Wednesday afternoon when business and community leaders officially announced the launch of NETNHub, an entity intended to support and enhance existing and new economic development across the eight counties of Northeast Tennessee.
US-based BWX Technologies is proceeding apace to deliver microreactors to commercial power and industrial customers in cooperation with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
BloombergNEF (BNEF) today announced the twelve winners of its 2022 BNEF Pioneers – early-stage companies that are pursuing significant low-carbon opportunities. The winners’ innovations fill important gaps that address the challenges of generating 24/7 clean power, achieving net-negative carbon-capture, and decarbonizing aviation. Additionally, BNEF selected three wildcard winners.
As the Tennessee Valley Authority is considering options for replacing two coal-fired power plants, three nominees to the federal power utility’s board told a Senate panel on Wednesday they would explore adding more renewable energy to TVA’s system.
EM cleanup contractor UCOR is raising awareness among soon-to-be graduates in higher education about opportunities to work at Oak Ridge. In their latest outreach, UCOR employees volunteered at the Spring 2022 Engineering Expo at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Bonnie Carroll may have recently retired from Information International Associates (IIA), the information and scientific data management company she founded decades ago in Oak Ridge, but the long-time supporter of the College of Communication and Information is not yet done with data or with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The University of Tennessee is taking its space research across state borders and opening a new office in one of the United States’ premier cities for innovation.
The U.S. Department of Energy, saying we’re in an “all-out sprint to beat the climate crisis,” will spend $5 million in Knoxville on a project it hopes will become a model for the rest of the country.
