ORNL Review v25n1 1992.pdf

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