Vol. 25, No. 3, ( 1992)
ORNL: The First 50 Years- Foreword
- Preface
- Prologue
- Letter by Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.
- Chapter 1: Wartime Laboratory
- Atoms in Appalachia
- Revolving Door of Success
- ORNL and TVA
- Leslie R. Groves: Manhattan Project's Main Man
- Safety Margins
- The Silver Lining of the Calutrons
- Chapter 2: High-Flux Years
- Samuel Lind: Tennessee's Own
- Radioisotopes and Health
- Alexander Hollaender: A Radiant Biologist
- Karl Z. Morgan: Man on a Mission
- Ernest Wollan: Badge of Solid Distinction
- Promethium Unbound: A New Element
- From Installation Dog to Katy's Kitchen
- Chapter 3: Accelerating Projects
- Dr. Alvin Weinberg: Mr. ORNL
- Democratic Responsibility
- Small Science in a Big Laboratory
- Clarence Larson: The Right Chemistry
- P. R. Bell: Scanning the Future
- Radiation Effects in Materials: Cultivated in Oak Ridge
- The Russells: A Family Affair
- Rickover: Setting the Nuclear Navy's Course
- Chapter 4: Olympian Feats
- VIPs at the ORR
- 1955 Geneva Conference
- Crossing the Swords
- Ellison Taylor: Player-Coach of Chemistry
- Chapter 5: Balancing Act
- Smoking Out the Facts
- In the Nation's Defense
- Neutrons and JFK
- Laboratory's Collective Strength
- Chapter 6: Responding to Social Needs
- Earth Day 1970
- Nuclear Physics Research: Little Things Mean a Lot
- Y Not Swans?
- ORNL and Nuclear Criticality Safety: From Standards to Software
- Structure and Soundness
- The ECCS Hearings
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- Floyd Culler: Directed with His Boots On
- Chapter 7: Energy Technologies
- Director Herman Postma
- Skyjack '72
- Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
- The Carter Visit
- Oak Ridge's Environmental Park
- Chapter 8: Diversity and Sharing
- Ion Implantation of Materials
- Raising the Quality of Roof Research
- Quest for Fail-Safe Reactors
- Neutron Scattering Research: Born in Oak Ridge
- The States of the Laboratory
- Chapter 9: Global Outreach
- Alex Zucker: From Cyclotrons to Central Administration
- Ceramics and Energy: It's a Materials World
- Director Alvin Trivelpiece
- President Zachary Taylor and the Laboratory: Presidential Visit from the Grave
- Industrial-Strength Science
- The Bush Visit: Molding the Future
- Epilogue
- Additional Reading
- ORNL Technologies Licensed Since 1985 to Private Companies by Energy Systems
- ORNL Technologies Used in Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
- R&D 100 Awards to ORNL Researchers
Vol. 25, No. 2, ( 1992)
Thin Films for Advanced Batteries- State of the Laboratory—1991: Strengthening R&D
- An Eye on Reactor and Computer Control
- Seeking Order in Chaos
- Thin Films for Advanced Batteries
- Waste R&D at ORNL
- New Waste Technologies
- License Renewal for Nuclear Power Plants
- Pick a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- User Facilities: Surface Modification and Characterization Collaborative Research Center
- Educational Activities: ORNL-ORAU partnership in education
- R&D Updates
- Technical Highlights
Vol. 25, No. 1, ( 1992)
Probing Life's Building Blocks- Walker Branch Watershed: DOE's Canary in a Cage
- Technology for the Future Battlefield
- New Technologies for DNA Sequencing
- Covering All the Bases: ORNL Probes the Human Genome Jim Pearce
- ORNL as a Supercomputer Research Center
- Paving the Way to Superconcrete
- A New Look at Supercritical Water
- Small Mammals as Environmental Monitors
- Awards and Appointments
- Pick a Number—Joseph Fourier and his heat flux law
- User Facilities-A new mission for Holifield Heavy Ion Research Facility
- Educational Activities—New training opportunities for students and university faculty
- R&D Updates—Bulk Shielding Reactor permanently shut down; C02 claim disputed by ORNL model; studies of Brazil's rain forest; ORNL's corrective action plan approved; report on advantages of demand-side management; cold neutron source for Advanced Neutron Source promising
- Technical Highlights—Fuzzy-logic chip for controlling robot; studies of vegetation regrowth at Mt. St. Helens; global chemical pollution; space conditions simulated at ORNL
- Technology Transfer—CRADA signing at ORNL witnessed by President Bush; new microwave furnace developed; CRADA involving ORNL, UT, and Dow Chemical; Optics MODIL CRADA; licenses for check valve technology and Raman spectral library