WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: With annual childcare expenses comparable to a year's rent in parts of Tennessee, FEMA may be able to help with those costs. Families that were affected by Tropical Storm Helene and have children under age 13 may be eligible for childcare assistance through FEMA's Other Needs Assistance program. Childcare assistance is limited to $200 per week per child for up more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Improving lab-to-field connections with robotic systems "One of our goals with this project is to make connections between the laboratory and the field seamless to order, for instance, automated sampling at a specific coordinate where we want to learn more and resolve asymmetries between above and belowground data," Kalluri added. "Our self-guided system is then auto more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: An indictment was unsealed yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee, charging nine members of a multi-state money laundering organization responsible for laundering millions of dollars derived from internet fraud, including business email compromise schemes. The nine defendants were arrested in a takedown coordinated across three jurisdictions. According to court documents, Samson A. Omoniyi, 43 of Houston; Misha more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Collaboration links large genetic database, photosynthesis expertise At the ORNL-led CBI, scientists have studied poplar for years as a fast-growing, nonfood perennial crop for feedstock production. They assembled the first genome-wide association study, or GWAS, of Populus trichocarpa by sampling from 1,500 trees in the wild and analyzing their physical characterist more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Kris Gaines is on a nonproliferation mission: to make it easier for more countries to eliminate highly enriched uranium, or HEU, thus neutralizing the inherent threat of its potential for nefarious use. As a nuclear nonproliferation specialist and project manager at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Gaines leads aspects of an important project  more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: New and advanced nuclear reactor technologies including small modular reactors, or SMRs and their associated fuel cycles represent growing opportunities for scalable carbon-free energy production. But their novel designs, new fuel types and forms, and unique operating environments pose distinct challenges for safeguards, the methods used to verify that nuclear materia more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced that President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made additional disaster assistance available to the state of Tennessee to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by Tropical Storm Helene from Sept. 26-30, 2024. The President authorized the federal cost-share to be increased from 75% to 100% for debris removal and emerg more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Building teams, taking risks At ORNL, Fuhr spearheaded a national grid timing and cybersecurity initiative and helped build a close research relationship with innovative utility partner EPB of Chattanooga. At ORNL's Hardin Valley campus, Fuhr founded the Grid Operations and Analytics Laboratory, or GOAL, with a 10-gigabyte-per-second direct fiber optic link to EPB fo more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Spark Innovation Center Director Lilly Trench shared that Knoxville is ranked in the top 20 hubs in the United States for clean technology--in large part because of the work of Knoxville-based organizations, such as ORNL's Innovation Crossroads, a Department of Energy Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program that offers a two-year fellowship for researchers working to ad more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: "Our work shows that amyloid fibrils can actually provide an enormous neuroprotective response due to a quantum optical effect, known as single-photon superradiance, by absorbing high-energy UV photons rapidly and downconverting them to longer, safer wavelengths," Kurian said. Kurian and his team used Summit to make predictions for the thermal quantum yields the rati more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The project combined Kumar's expertise in composites with ORNL's unique capabilities in carbon fiber. A composite is a material that combines polymers with strong fibers, such as fiberglass or carbon fiber, to create a rigid, lightweight material. The blade tip, made at ORNL in DOE's Carbon Fiber Technology Facility, incorporated two layers each of standard glass fibe more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: Two men from Connecticut and Tennessee were sentenced to prison today after they both previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Ric more PR

ROANOKE, Virginia, Dec. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release on Dec. 5, 2024: The leader of a 20-member conspiracy that distributed numerous kilograms of methamphetamine throughout southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee was sentenced today in federal court. Christopher "CJ" Johnson, 47, of Bristol, Tennessee, previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Today he was sentenced to 20 years in federal  more PR