The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: User Facilities Help to Illuminate Fundamental Sciences – Discovery of America by Queltanews

1980 was a banner year for many Laboratory programs. For the first time, the budget exceeded $300 million. Of this total, $20 million was subcontracted to     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Three Mile Island Accident and Iranian Embargo Quick Responses – Discovery of America by Queltanews

The March 1979 accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 surprised nuclear experts at the Laboratory and elsewhere. Having a national reputation in the safety field, Laboratory staff led by Fred Mynatt became immersed in the Three Mile Island emergency     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The Return of Renewables – Discovery of America by Queltanews

The transition from ERDA to DOE proved difficult. Secretary Schlesinger revised the system for managing DOE's eight multiprogram laboratories, 32 specialized laboratories, and 16 nuclear materials and weapons laboratories     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: President Jimmy Carter Establishes the Department of Energy (DOE) – Discovery of America by Queltanewsca by Queltanews

The urgent energy research provided expansion for the Laboratory. By 1977, it had acquired lead responsibility for five major nation's energy programs.     more...

Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Fusion &Fission Researches – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Although fusion research could not enhance the nation's short-range energy posture, ERDA gave the program substantial support in the hope that it would provide a long-range solution to the nation's energy problems     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Coal-related Research Initiative – Discovery of America by Queltanews

The United States with nearly half of the world's known coal reserves has been called the "Saudi Arabia of coal." In the face of dwindling domestic petroleum supplies, scarce natural gas reserves     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Energy Conservation Research and Development – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Recognizing that the nation's energy posture could be improved by reducing consumption of existing energy resources and putting wasted energy to use, the Laboratory joined ERDA's national conservation program     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Under the Management of Director Herman Postma – Discovery of America by Queltanews

The 1974 energy crisis and Postma's appointment as director during the same year had far reaching implications for the Laboratory. Postma had joined the Laboratory's Thermonuclear Division in 1959 and became division director     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Learning to Live In Peace – Discovery of America by Queltanews

The end of the war left the staff of Clinton Laboratories with both a pride in their accomplishment and a sense of anxiety. Their future looked uncertain. Would the federal government be willing to invest     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: How United States Won the Battle of the Laboratories – Discovery of America by Queltanews

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: How United States Won the Battle of the Laboratories – Discovery of America by Queltanews     more...