Why so long for security upgrade at Y-12?
Recently, I posted a piece about the relocation of Bear Creek Road at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant...

Defense honors for Y-12 employees
Jim Goss of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Y-12 Site Office and Ron Simandle, a rese...

Virginia Tech supports energy hub for bldgs
Virginia Tech's Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics is among the academic and research ...

Oak Ridge advisory board meets Sept. 8
The Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board, a citizens panel that advises the Dept. of Energy on Oak...

High-value outage for Oak Ridge reactor
The longest outage of the year is under way at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Rea...

Y-12: 1M safe hours on ARRA projects
Workers in protective gear perform cleanup operation at Alpha-5. B&W photo B&W Y-12, the government...

Reducing risk at Y-12's nuke facilities
The government has invested about $2.5 million this year in design efforts preparing for the Nuclear...

Family memories, courtesy of Ed Westcott
Well, many folks are familiar with Ed Westcott as the government photographer who documented the Wo...

Science futures: ORAU to deliver $31K in grants
On Monday, Oak Ridge Associated Universities will have a ceremony and reception to award about $31,0...

Breaking down the Cold War, piece by piece
I have a piece today over at Knoxnews.com on the dismantlement work taking place at the Y-12 nuclear...

Eeeek! The sequel
The government's Oak Ridge warning systems will be tested again on Wednesday, Sept. 1, with sirens s...

Pender to direct science ed projects
John Pender has been named director of special projects for science education at Oak Ridge Associate...

Corker on New START
Sen. Bob Corker was in town this past week and stopped by the New Sentinel offices, where I had a ch...

ORNL's new Cray machine passes early tests
news.com/munger/2010/07/noaas_supercomputer_arrives_at_1.html">The new Cray XT6 system at Oak Ridge ...

Christenson gets NNSA's Bronze Medal for role on uranium storage center at...
Dale Christenson, the federal project manager on the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility at Y...