Frank Munger

Energy Reporter, Knoxville News Sentinel

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White hot | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com

blogs.knoxnews.com — Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory In this November 2011 ORNL photo, health physics staff survey tank at the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center -- a hot cell facility that's locat

Tighter security at Secret City Fest

blogs.knoxnews.com — Organizers of the Secret City Festival announced this week that festival-goers may see tighter security, especially at this weekend's concerts. No backpacks or coolers are being allowed into the concert site and all bags will be subject to search, the festival said in info released to the news media.

On guard at X-10

blogs.knoxnews.com — Department of Energy archives/Ed Westcott photo Early guard tower shown here on July 22, 1943, at the World War II site that eventually became Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

On guard at X-10

blogs.knoxnews.com — Department of Energy archives/Ed Westcott photo Early guard tower shown here on July 22, 1943, at the World War II site that eventually became Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Bechtel ready to move forward on Y-12/Pantex contract without further 'distractions.' @knoxnews @knoxvillebiz bit.ly/14H3Bpf

Bechtel ready to move ahead without more 'distractions' on Y-12/Pantex management contract

blogs.knoxnews.com — Asked for comment on B&W's latest protest on the Y-12/Pantex contract award (won earlier this year by Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security), Bechtel National spokesman Jason Bohne provided this s
New challenge to $22 billion nuclear weapons contract to manage Y-12 & Pantex. bit.ly/12RsdOq

B&W-led team files new protest on Y-12/Pantex contract award

blogs.knoxnews.com — Nuclear Production Partners,the B&W-led team that bid on the combined Y-12/Pantex management contract, has filed a new protest with the Government Accountability Office, Babcock & Wilcox announced thi
B&W-led team files new protest on $22B Y-12/Pantex contract award. @knoxnews bit.ly/12RsdOq

B&W-led team files new protest on Y-12/Pantex contract award

blogs.knoxnews.com — Nuclear Production Partners,the B&W-led team that bid on the combined Y-12/Pantex management contract, has filed a new protest with the Government Accountability Office, Babcock & Wilcox announced thi

China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer debuts at No. 1 on TOP500 list; ORNL's Titan drops to second place

blogs.knoxnews.com — As expected, the Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China's National University of Defense Technology, is the new No. 1 on the TOP500 List of the world's fastest supercomputers. According to the announcement, Tianhe-2 had an astonishing performance of 33.86 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark.

Not yet | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com

blogs.knoxnews.com — The Waste Control Specialists nuclear landfill in west Texas is now open for federal business, with recent reports of radioactive waste being shipped from Los Alamos National Lab to the site. I asked

Movement on Manhattan Project Park

blogs.knoxnews.com — The Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act, which would sanction a three-site park that includes facilities in Oak Ridge, passed the U.S. House of Representatives late last week as part of the
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