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Secret visit to US nuclear hub signals serious Iran deal push: Report

Two of US President Donald Trump’s key aides reportedly undertook a secret visit to a vital scientific facility…
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Bengals News (5/23): Ken Anderson earns Honorary PhD

Bengals News Dr. Kenny Anderson And His Full-Circle Augustana Address Forty years after delivering his last surgical strike…
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Bengals News (5/23): Ken Anderson earns Honorary PhD https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/899144/ #Bengals #ChaseBrown #Cincinnati #CincinnatiBengals #CincinnatiBengals #Football #JacobyBrissett #JoeBurrow #KenAnderson #NFL #NFLNews #OakRidge #OakRidgeHighSchool #TeddyBridgewater #TeeHiggins #Tennessee

This Tiny Oregon Italian Restaurant Feels Like A Secret Mediterranean Escape In The Foothills https://www.diningandcooking.com/2643725/this-tiny-oregon-italian-restaurant-feels-like-a-secret-mediterranean-escape-in-the-foothills/ #BestSpots #CioppinoHouse #DateNight #dinner #EugeneSpringfieldArea #Hwy58 #Italia #Italian #ItalianDinner #italiano #ItallianRestaurant #italy #Oakridge #PleasantHillOregon #RomanticVibes #Seafood #SteakHouse #WhereToEat #WhereToGoForDinner #WillametteValley #WineMenu

This Tiny Oregon Italian Restaurant Feels Like A Secret Mediterranean Escape In The Foothills https://www.diningandcooking.com/2643725/this-tiny-oregon-italian-restaurant-feels-like-a-secret-mediterranean-escape-in-the-foothills/ #BestSpots #CioppinoHouse #DateNight #dinner #EugeneSpringfieldArea #Hwy58 #Italia #Italian #ItalianDinner #italiano #ItallianRestaurant #italy #Oakridge #PleasantHillOregon #RomanticVibes #Seafood #SteakHouse #WhereToEat #WhereToGoForDinner #WillametteValley #WineMenu

#OakRidge spawns institute to curb #AI #datacenter power surge
#ORNL aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid
As an internal "institute within an institute," NGDCI aims to bring together the laboratory's facilities and expertise spanning energy, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and grid technology. The ultimate goal is to ensure that #America's rapidly growing AI infrastructure remains secure, efficient, and reliable.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/oak_ridge_datacenter_power/

#OakRidge spawns institute to curb #AI #datacenter power surge
#ORNL aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid
As an internal "institute within an institute," NGDCI aims to bring together the laboratory's facilities and expertise spanning energy, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and grid technology. The ultimate goal is to ensure that #America's rapidly growing AI infrastructure remains secure, efficient, and reliable.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/oak_ridge_datacenter_power/

#Trump's rush to build #nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries

December 17, 2025

"Critics, however, worry that the tight July 4 deadline, political pressure and a lack of transparency are all compromising safety. Even a 'small' release of #radioactive material could cause damage to #people and the #environment around the test sites.

"This is not normal, and this is not OK, and this is not going to lead to success," warned #AllisonMacfarlane, a professor at the University of British Columbia who served as chairman of the #NRC under President Barack Obama. 'This is how to have an accident.' "

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5608371/trump-executive-order-new-nuclear-reactors-safety-concerns

#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NoMoreChernobyls #NoMoreFukushimas #SMRs #NRCFail #DOE #IdahoNationalLab #ParsonsKS #UtahSanRafaelLab #OakRidge #TexasAM #AbileneChristianUniversity #MakeAmericaRadioactiveAgain

#Trump's rush to build #nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries

December 17, 2025

"Critics, however, worry that the tight July 4 deadline, political pressure and a lack of transparency are all compromising safety. Even a 'small' release of #radioactive material could cause damage to #people and the #environment around the test sites.

"This is not normal, and this is not OK, and this is not going to lead to success," warned #AllisonMacfarlane, a professor at the University of British Columbia who served as chairman of the #NRC under President Barack Obama. 'This is how to have an accident.' "

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5608371/trump-executive-order-new-nuclear-reactors-safety-concerns

#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NoMoreChernobyls #NoMoreFukushimas #SMRs #NRCFail #DOE #IdahoNationalLab #ParsonsKS #UtahSanRafaelLab #OakRidge #TexasAM #AbileneChristianUniversity #MakeAmericaRadioactiveAgain

How America Built A Secret Appalachian City To Develop Atomic Weapons – West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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How America Built A Secret Appalachian City To Develop Atomic Weapons

By Mason Adams, Published February 4, 2026 – 4:23 pm

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This conversation originally aired in the Feb. 2, 2026 episode of Inside Appalachia.

In the 1940s, scientists worked feverishly to create the atomic bomb, which ultimately was dropped on two Japanese cities in August 1945. 

Appalachia played a key part in the project through the creation and development of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a secret city that was developed by the federal government beginning in 1942. 

A new PBS American Experience film explores that history. It’s called Bombshell, and details how the U.S. manipulated the public narrative about the bomb’s development and deployment. 

• See also at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/bombshell/ and embedded from YouTube at the end of this post.

Author Greg Mitchell appears as an expert in the film and spoke with Inside Appalachia host Mason Adams.

The transcript below has been lightly edited for clarity.

Adams: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was and continues to be, a center for nuclear research. Can you talk a little bit about the role it played during the development of the atomic bomb?

Mitchell: Well, it was absolutely vital. For better or worse, we would not have had the atomic bomb without the Oak Ridge project. In a nutshell, when the go-ahead was given to attempt to build an atomic bomb, which was very iffy, we needed uranium and some plutonium to help create the bomb. And that’s very, very rare in nature, so they had to basically create it.

The key plant, especially at the start, would be Oak Ridge. Of course, it didn’t exist when the war started. They had to clear the land and drive out local residents, of which there weren’t that many. The Oak Ridge area was chosen because the Tennessee Valley Authority, was nearby, and it was open land. It had to be top secret. I mean secret, secret — secret beyond belief, almost. Massive spending went into building these very large facilities, very large plants, very large laboratories. People may have the vision of chemists in their little labs with test tubes, but it was nothing like that. It was an enormous, enormous project. 

Los Alamos gets all the publicity, with [Robert] Oppenheimer and General [Leslie] Groves and so forth. Probably a lot of people think that the bomb was basically created at Los Alamos, when in fact it was just various scientists and other experts, designing and discussing. But they needed the raw materials, and that had to come mainly from Oak Ridge and from Hanford, Washington, another secret, secret city. Oak Ridge, to do this, used what became known as uranium enrichment — all these very, very difficult processes that had to be done. They needed so many employees and workers that the “secret city” had to end up having schools and hospitals and movie theaters and grocery stores, everything that would be in a city. And the city grew to 75,000 residents, and there was always an enormous housing shortage, issues like that. 

It was segregated as the South was then, but they did incredible work in accomplishing the goals of getting just enough uranium and plutonium to be able to make the early bombs. When the war ended, Oak Ridge was still there. Its population went down, but it continued on. Today, it’s still an important area. I think there’s only 31,000 population, but it’s a real city.

Adams: We’ll come back to Oak Ridge in just a minute, but I wanted to talk real quickly about the PBS documentary Bombshell, in which you appear. It details how the U.S. government downplayed and pushed back on coverage of its atomic weapons program. How and why was the federal government trying to influence press reports about the Manhattan Project and the bombings in Japan?

Mitchell: Well, it was a sensitive area. On the one hand, you had the image — and what was put out right from the start, from day one, — was that this weapon would be crucial in ending the war and saving American lives and so forth. Of course, the atomic bomb itself was secret, so they had to announce both the bombing of Japan and the existence of an atomic weapon at the same time. As you can imagine, there was massive publicity about it. One part of the documentary is about the New York Times reporter William L. Lawrence, who had joined the Manhattan Project during its early years and became its chief propagandist. He gave up his job at the New York Times temporarily, and then he went back to New York Times and wrote pieces based on his inside experience. He was not exactly an unbiased observer. There’s a section in the film about William L. Lawrence, who is known as “Atomic Bill.” 

The American public responded to the atomic bombings of Japan. Some people were appalled that we dropped the bomb over two cities and that the vast, vast majority of those killed were civilians. But probably the overwhelming majority felt that it helped end the war, and that, at least in these cases, they welcomed the use of the bomb, and embraced it at least temporarily. The problem was that we were planning to build more and bigger bombs, and so people were scared about those bombs being used against us.

Caption: People suffering burns received dabs of transformer oil brought from the nearby Hiroshima Electric Railway. The girl in the foreground, wearing a sailor style uniform with a triangular collar, and the girl to her left were second-year students at Hiroshima Girls’ Commercial School (then 13 years old) who experienced the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Postal Savings Bureau in Senda-machi 1-chome, where they were mobilized to work, but survived

The boy second to the right of the police officer from the Ujina Police Station was a first-year student at Hiroshima Municipal Junior High School (then 12 years old) who experienced the atomic bombing in Koami-cho (now part of Naka Ward), where he was helping to demolish buildings to create fire lanes. It is believed he was on his way to his home in Danbarasuehiro-cho (now Danbara in Minami Ward), where he lived with his parents. He went missing and his remains were never found. (Distance from hypocenter 2200 meters.)

Photo taken in August 1945, by Yoshito Matsushige, Chugoku Shimbun.

Photo Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images. Photo Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

Adams: In Bombshell, there’s a section of the film about Harold Jacobson. He’s a scientist at Oak Ridge in Bombshell. You describe him as “a junior Manhattan Project Scientist at Oak Ridge, no big deal, no key figure,” but he does figure into the film and into history. What did he do? What happened?

Mitchell: Probably the main concern on the publicity front that needed to be managed by the government was the fact of radiation with this bomb, they tried to picture it as just a massively bigger bomb, and did not want to focus on the radiation aspects. Of course, that’s what made this bomb even more different. They called it propaganda and a hoax, the fact that Japanese civilians were dying from radiation disease afterwards. This was this very scary new aspect of the bomb that they had. It put the bomb more in the category of chemical or biological weapons, which were banned around the world even then. 

Harold Jacobson was quoted as — I don’t know if it was originally in the New York Times, but it was in the New York Times and newspapers around the country — claiming that we wouldn’t be able to occupy Hiroshima for, I think, 70 years. Somehow, he came to that because of lingering radiation. Of course, U.S. troops were heading to Hiroshima and Nagasaki with our soldiers for occupation. So that was especially scary. There was a flurry of attention for his claim. A few U.S. scientists got in there very early and did readings, which were accurate or not, but Oppenheimer himself was quoted saying, “No, this is nonsense.” So many experts weighed in that Jacobson’s views were pushed aside and largely forgotten. At least he drew attention to the fact that there was a tremendous radiation issue surrounding the atomic bomb.

Adams: Eighty years later, how have these claims sorted out? Was Jacobson right? Were Oppenheimer and the government scientists right? What’s your read? 

Mitchell: As a historian, I’ve spent a month in Hiroshima, and I can tell you, it’s an average very, very large city. People had to move back there. Like any disaster, you have all these thousands of people uprooted, and they moved back and searched for their families and found some remains and found, in some cases, where their houses had stood and all that. There was a big drive to move back there, and the U.S., in fact, sent in an occupying force starting a month or so after the bombing. Studies have been done ever since, and they found definitely an increase in various forms of cancer, various genetic defects, other sorts of illnesses and diseases connected to radiation exposure. But there always was a question, was it from the immediate exposure from the day of the bomb or the couple days after, or people being affected a month later? But clearly there was many, many thousands who were negatively affected by being exposed to radiation after the bombing.

Adams: Here in 2025, all these years later, we’re still dealing with the fallout from these events, and journalists are dealing with similar efforts by the federal government to control coverage. So, what lessons do you draw from this historic episode? What do you think this documentary and this moment in history has to tell us today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp8mh8iZTe4

See also: The film “Oppenheimer,” linked below…

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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The #exascale offensive: #America's race to rule #AI #HPC
DOE's audacious plan will deploy nine cutting-edge #supercomputers across #Argonne, #OakRidge, and #LosAlamos National Labs through unprecedented public-private partnerships. Scale is staggering: systems bristling with hundreds of thousands of next-generation processors, capable of quintillions of calculations per second purpose-built to unlock AI applications – and to ensure America's rivals don't get there first.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/26/the_exascale_offensive/

The #exascale offensive: #America's race to rule #AI #HPC
DOE's audacious plan will deploy nine cutting-edge #supercomputers across #Argonne, #OakRidge, and #LosAlamos National Labs through unprecedented public-private partnerships. Scale is staggering: systems bristling with hundreds of thousands of next-generation processors, capable of quintillions of calculations per second purpose-built to unlock AI applications – and to ensure America's rivals don't get there first.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/26/the_exascale_offensive/

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https://www.alojapan.com/1386712/oak-ridge-japanese-sister-city-trips-resume/ Oak Ridge, Japanese sister city trips resume #Japan #JapanTrips #JapaneseStudents #OakRidge #SCSO #SisterCity #trips The Sister City Support Organization (SCSO), in cooperation with Oak Ridge Schools, has selected the delegates for the 2024 middle school exchange with the sister city of Naka-shi, Japan. The 29-year student exchange will resume this year after it was stopped five years because of COVID-19. The Oak Ridge students are paired wit

#MoltenSalt #nuclearreactor slated to power #Google #datacenters in #2030
More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, #Kairos will bring it back to #OakRidge
The small modular reactor startup, along with the #TennesseeValleyAuthority (TVA), one of the largest utilities in the country, aim to bring 50 megawatts of #nuclear power to #Tennessee. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/google_smr_datacenters/

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More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, #Kairos will bring it back to #OakRidge
The small modular reactor startup, along with the #TennesseeValleyAuthority (TVA), one of the largest utilities in the country, aim to bring 50 megawatts of #nuclear power to #Tennessee. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/google_smr_datacenters/

#Google setzt auf #Kernenergie der nächsten Generation und schließt mit dem US-Versorger #TVA einen Stromabnahmevertrag für den geplanten #Hermes2-Reaktor in #OakRidge.

Entwickelt von #KairosPower, nutzt der Reaktor erstmals flüssiges Salz statt Wasser zur Kühlung. Bis 2035 sollen bis zu 500 MW neue Kapazität bereitgestellt werden.

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#Google setzt auf #Kernenergie der nächsten Generation und schließt mit dem US-Versorger #TVA einen Stromabnahmevertrag für den geplanten #Hermes2-Reaktor in #OakRidge.

Entwickelt von #KairosPower, nutzt der Reaktor erstmals flüssiges Salz statt Wasser zur Kühlung. Bis 2035 sollen bis zu 500 MW neue Kapazität bereitgestellt werden.

https://www.theverge.com/news/761809/nuclear-energy-google-ai-advanced-reactor-kairos-tva-electricity-utility

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Google stellt ersten Atomreaktor-Standort für KI-Betrieb vor
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"Künstliche Intelligenz gilt als Energiefresser. Zusammen mit Kairos Power will Google die eigenen KI-Server auch künftig mit ausreichend Strom versorgen – aus Kernenergie. Das Start-up baut nun ein erstes Atomkraftwerk im Rahmen der Kooperation."

https://www.itmagazine.ch/artikel/85329/Google_stellt_ersten_Atomreaktor-Standort_fuer_KI-Betrieb_vor.html

20.8.2025

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Google stellt ersten Atomreaktor-Standort für KI-Betrieb vor
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"Künstliche Intelligenz gilt als Energiefresser. Zusammen mit Kairos Power will Google die eigenen KI-Server auch künftig mit ausreichend Strom versorgen – aus Kernenergie. Das Start-up baut nun ein erstes Atomkraftwerk im Rahmen der Kooperation."

https://www.itmagazine.ch/artikel/85329/Google_stellt_ersten_Atomreaktor-Standort_fuer_KI-Betrieb_vor.html

20.8.2025

BS tech to run BS.

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Google plant mit Kairos Power ein #Atomkraftwerk in #OakRidge für seine #KI-#Rechenzentren. Bis 2035 sollen modulare Reaktoren 500 Megawatt für Standorte in Tennessee und Alabama liefern. #Google #Atomkraft https://winfuture.de/news,153049.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

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Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times

Opinion,

Guest Essay

How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness

Aug. 12, 2025 A Manhattan Project development site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1944. Credit…Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Listen to this article · 7:42 min Learn more

By Garrett M. Graff

Mr. Graff is a journalist, a historian and the author, most recently, of “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb.”

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The 80th anniversary last week of the atomic bombings that helped end World War II came at a most peculiar time. That is in part because we can’t mark that anniversary without also noting the astonishing Manhattan Project that built atomic weapons.

The Manhattan Project was a towering achievement, one of the great stories of human effort and accomplishment. Yet the Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the culture of research that the Manhattan Project and World War II bequeathed us, a culture that propelled American prosperity.

At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths. The very elements that made the Manhattan Project such a success are today under assault. With devastating cuts to science and health research, the administration is turning its back on a history of being powered and renewed by the innovation and vision of immigrants. What America may find is that we have squandered the greatest gift of the Manhattan Project — which, in the end, wasn’t the bomb but a new way of looking at how science and government can work together.

That the Manhattan Project happened is itself a minor miracle. For nearly two years, the U.S. military seemed to want nothing to do with the effort of inventing an atomic bomb.

From 1939 to 1941, a ragtag group of mostly Jewish refugee scientists from Hitler’s Europe, including Albert Einstein, approached the government and met with military officials. The scientists educated them on the discovery of nuclear fission, its implications for war and their fears that Hitler would develop an atomic bomb first.

The military brushed them off. “The colonels kept rather aloof,” the physicist Eugene Wigner recalled after one such meeting in October 1939, as Hitler took Poland. “They were friendly, they smiled, but they never expected to see a working atomic bomb in this world.”

One of those colonels told Wigner and Edward Teller, dismissively, that he would award $10,000 to whoever could develop a death ray and prove it by killing a goat — the implication being he imagined that project more likely than a bomb that unlocked the power of the fundamental building block of the universe.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times

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Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times

Opinion,

Guest Essay

How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness

Aug. 12, 2025 A Manhattan Project development site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1944. Credit…Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Listen to this article · 7:42 min Learn more

By Garrett M. Graff

Mr. Graff is a journalist, a historian and the author, most recently, of “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb.”

阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版

The 80th anniversary last week of the atomic bombings that helped end World War II came at a most peculiar time. That is in part because we can’t mark that anniversary without also noting the astonishing Manhattan Project that built atomic weapons.

The Manhattan Project was a towering achievement, one of the great stories of human effort and accomplishment. Yet the Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the culture of research that the Manhattan Project and World War II bequeathed us, a culture that propelled American prosperity.

At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths. The very elements that made the Manhattan Project such a success are today under assault. With devastating cuts to science and health research, the administration is turning its back on a history of being powered and renewed by the innovation and vision of immigrants. What America may find is that we have squandered the greatest gift of the Manhattan Project — which, in the end, wasn’t the bomb but a new way of looking at how science and government can work together.

That the Manhattan Project happened is itself a minor miracle. For nearly two years, the U.S. military seemed to want nothing to do with the effort of inventing an atomic bomb.

From 1939 to 1941, a ragtag group of mostly Jewish refugee scientists from Hitler’s Europe, including Albert Einstein, approached the government and met with military officials. The scientists educated them on the discovery of nuclear fission, its implications for war and their fears that Hitler would develop an atomic bomb first.

The military brushed them off. “The colonels kept rather aloof,” the physicist Eugene Wigner recalled after one such meeting in October 1939, as Hitler took Poland. “They were friendly, they smiled, but they never expected to see a working atomic bomb in this world.”

One of those colonels told Wigner and Edward Teller, dismissively, that he would award $10,000 to whoever could develop a death ray and prove it by killing a goat — the implication being he imagined that project more likely than a bomb that unlocked the power of the fundamental building block of the universe.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times

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“Chemical Eye 👁️ on Cathedrals in #Science.” http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/122704_macdougall.html

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#StrategicVoting by the #PrimaryFromTheCenter method survived a challenge by a #SobbingMAGA 💦 from #OakRidge. #JohnRagan lost his seat in the #TNleg state House of Representatives due to what he called “poison” votes - those cast by primary voters who are not in his opinion “bona fide #Republicans.” https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/09/09/tennessee-republicans-deny-oak-ridge-rep-john-ragans-challenge-of-august-primary-loss/

#Tennessee has ‘open primaries’ by law. #USpol

#StrategicVoting by the #PrimaryFromTheCenter method survived a challenge by a #SobbingMAGA 💦 from #OakRidge. #JohnRagan lost his seat in the #TNleg state House of Representatives due to what he called “poison” votes - those cast by primary voters who are not in his opinion “bona fide #Republicans.” https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/09/09/tennessee-republicans-deny-oak-ridge-rep-john-ragans-challenge-of-august-primary-loss/

#Tennessee has ‘open primaries’ by law. #USpol

#Tennessee state Rep. #JohnRagan *represents* #OakRidge , but he *demonstrates* the mentality of the new #Trump -ruled #GOP (Grievances Only Party). He is suing his own district claiming that he was ‘primaried’ with the help of ‘illegal voters’ that were not ‘bona fide #Republicans.’ 😂 👉 https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/16/john-ragan-challenges-primary-loss-alleges-illegal-crossover-voting/74827908007/

#MAGA Republicans aren’t just losers. They are #weird losers!

#Tennessee state Rep. #JohnRagan *represents* #OakRidge , but he *demonstrates* the mentality of the new #Trump -ruled #GOP (Grievances Only Party). He is suing his own district claiming that he was ‘primaried’ with the help of ‘illegal voters’ that were not ‘bona fide #Republicans.’ 😂 👉 https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/16/john-ragan-challenges-primary-loss-alleges-illegal-crossover-voting/74827908007/

#MAGA Republicans aren’t just losers. They are #weird losers!

#Tennessee state Rep. #JohnRagan ‘represents’ the honorable scientists and engineers at the historic #OakRidge National Laboratory, #ORNL. They should be ashamed of him, and 💩 👉 🚽.
👀 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZT8A6NHJd/

#Tennessee state Rep. #JohnRagan ‘represents’ the honorable scientists and engineers at the historic #OakRidge National Laboratory, #ORNL. They should be ashamed of him, and 💩 👉 🚽.
👀 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZT8A6NHJd/

Global News BC: Heavy flames, thick black smoke at Oakridge mall construction site fire https://globalnews.ca/news/9744323/black-smoke-fire-oakridge-mall-construction-site/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #VancouverFireRescue #Oakridgemallfire #Vancouverfire #OakridgeMall #Vancouver #Oakridge #Fire #vfr

😳 Over 800 internship and job opportunites from (the K-12 student level up to the postdoctoral level) are currently available through the #OakRidge Institute for #Science and #Education on #Zintellect: https://zintellect.com/Catalog

#jobs #STEM #nonSTEM #edu #

😳 Over 800 internship and job opportunites from (the K-12 student level up to the postdoctoral level) are currently available through the #OakRidge Institute for #Science and #Education on #Zintellect: https://zintellect.com/Catalog

#jobs #STEM #nonSTEM #edu #

Scientists in China are now building on the same basic MSR technology developed at ORNL. The Chinese gov’t had a small, short-lived knowledge exchange program with ORNL. But most of the…intellectual property…is in the public domain.

“The real data mine is the thousands of published reports in 1960s and '70s that are found in the open literature," Forsberg says.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor

#nuclearpower #energy #MSR #OakRidge #nuclearengineering #innovation #USA #intellectualproperty

#DOE's #OakRidge #NationalLaboratory has developed a utility-scale #solar and storage project that can provide power to both AC and DC high-voltage lines. Project is called MARS “multi-port autonomous reconfigurable solar power plant” –here’s how it works https://bit.ly/3QWlIUx