Tom Row found himself as ORNL's point person for a controversial campaign in 1989, when "Tiger Teams" descended on DOE facilities with a mission to enforce regulations pertaining to environment, safety and health.
James Watkins, the secretary of Energy and retired Navy admiral who had been chief ...
The Tower Shielding Facility is located on the perimeter of the Oak Ridge Reservation on a road blocked by a locked gate. It's still one of ORNL's more conspicuous landmarks because the two towers, from which a small nuclear reactor was at times suspended, can be glimpsed from nearby Interstate 40.
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Over its three-quarters of a century history ORNL has employed many people in the area. It stands to reason several families have contributed more than one member to the Lab's work force -- in some cases multiple generations of the same families. This year's 75th Anniversary planners asked staff mem...
Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018, is the 75th anniversary of the Graphite Reactor, as it came to be known, reaching criticality for the first time on a morning in 1943. The Graphite Reactor is the first nuclear reactor facility built as such -- its predecessor, where the first controlled nuc...
The year 1993 marked the 50th anniversary of the Graphite Reactor's startup, on Nov. 4, 1943. A good number of Manhattan Project veterans were still around at the time, and ORNL invited them to a luncheon and ceremony at the Lab.
Former Director Alvin Weinberg, in fact, was still spry enough to p...
Former University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer praised UT-Battelle employees at 91°µÍø during a Leadership Givers Breakfast for contributing $858,000 to this year’s United Way campaign.
Fulmer, who is involved with several United Way agencies, said many East T...
In an interview with Laboratory Communications Director David Keim, ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia described his introduction to ORNL and East Tennessee, building a high-performance computing capability from the ground up, his vision for the Laboratory and his thoughts on leading a world-class research institution in a changing landscape.