An Oak Ridge engineer on Tuesday will discuss a proposal to use giant mirrors in space to produce power, reduce exposure from the sun’s rays, and lower temperatures on Earth.
Tetra Tech engineer Robert Kennedy III will be the speaker at this fall’s first “Lunch with the League” at noon Tuesday, a press release said.
Children who use their library card at the Clinton Public Library in September can enter a drawing to win a backpack full of school supplies, and adults can win a tote bag filled with books, a press release said.
The drawings are being held in honor of Library Card Sign-Up Month.
The Rogues will perform at a Sept. 22 reunion of the Oak Ridge High School Class of 1967.
The Oak Ridge High School Class of 1967 will have its 45th reunion this month.
The reunion is from 7 to 11 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Midtown Community Center
Special entertainment will be provided by The Rogues, which includes four 1967 classmates: Bill Halsey, Mike Tabor, Charles Collins, and Ronnie Letellier. The band also includes Chip Zulliger, who graduated in 1970.
The Marlow Volunteer Fire Department will benefit from this year’s annual 9/11 Remembrance Ride, which will be held on Sunday, Sept. 9.
Registration for the 65-mile ride begins at 8 a.m. at the World’s Fair Park in Knoxville. The ceremony will begin at 10:15 a.m. with a flyover, “Taps,” 21-gun salute, and then the 9-11 memorial procession, a press release said.
Law enforcement agencies across the country have stepped up drunk driving enforcement this Labor Day holiday weekend, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department said in a press release.
The Sheriff’s Department is taking part in “Drive Sober Or Get Pulled Over,” a campaign taking aim at drunk drivers, by conducting saturation patrols this weekend, the release said.
Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility (Photo courtesy of NNSA/B&W Y-12)
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A special federal report published Wednesday documents alleged failures that allowed three anti-nuclear weapons activists to sneak into the Y-12 National Security Complex on July 28, penetrate a high-security area, and spray-paint slogans and splash human blood on a building that stores bomb-grade uranium.
Among the findings: A critical security camera in an area penetrated by the protesters hadn’t worked for about six months, and guards assumed the trespassers were maintenance workers when they used hammers to beat on the walls of the uranium storage building, officially known as the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility.
The failures in the $150 million security system at Y-12, which has “long enjoyed a reputation as one of the most secure facilities in the United States,” raised serious questions, said the 18-page report by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General.
“We identified troubling displays of ineptitude in responding to alarms, failures to maintain critical security equipment, over-reliance on compensatory measures, misunderstanding of security protocols, poor communications, and weaknesses in contract and resource management,” said the report, signed by Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman.
Business owner Terry Frank, Anderson County’s new mayor, will be sworn in at 5 p.m. today in the Circuit Courtroom at the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton.
The new property assessor, John K. Alley Jr., will also be sworn in.
Note: This story was last updated at 11:25 a.m. Sept. 1.
A Campbell County man was shot in north Lake City Thursday afternoon, Police Chief Jim Shetterly said.
Scottie Tackett, 29, was shot once at the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and Railroad Avenue. He sought medical attention and was flown to the University of Tennessee Medical Center by Lifestar helicopter, Shetterly said.
No information was available on his condition, UT Medical Center spokeswoman Susan Wyatt said Friday.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General has released a report on the July 28 security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex, and it found “multiple system failures on several levels,” including ineptitude in responding to alarms, failures to maintain critical security equipment, misunderstanding of security protocols, and poor communications.
There was also an over-reliance on “compensatory measures,” and weaknesses in contract and resource management, said the 18-page report, released about one month after the security breach. In addition, “contractor governance and federal oversight failed to identify and correct early indicators of these multiple system breakdowns.
“When combined, these issues directly contributed to an atmosphere in which the trespassers could gain access to the protected security area directly adjacent to one of the nation’s most critically important and highly secured weapons-related facilities,” according to a summary of the report posted on the OIG website.
Kelly Callison
An Oak Ridge planning commissioner who sought an appointment to City Council last year is running for election to the seven-member legislative body this year.
The candidate, Kelly S. Callison, is vice chair of the Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission. He is also the chief operating officer of Information International Associates Inc.
Linda Bauer
B&W Y-12 President and General Manager Chuck Spencer has named Linda Bauer as vice president of Facilities, Infrastructure, and Services, or FI&S.
Bauer most recently served as senior vice president with Los Alamos Technical Associates Inc., helping direct large-scale government and private endeavors, such as the Portsmouth Environmental Restoration Project and the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Project.
