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NRC proposing $70K fine against TVA for Watts Bar violations

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing a $70,000 fine against the Tennessee Valley Authority for violations related to one of its East Tennessee nuclear plants. According to a NRC news release on Wednesday, the violations have to do with the commercial grade dedication program during the construction of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2. The NRC requires certain ...
Deputies locate missing Knox County 14-year-old

Members of the Animal Control Advisory Board in Campbell County met for the first time Tuesday night since closing the county's only shelter amid ...
Marriott Business Services in Blount County sold

Marriott Business Services, one of Blount County's largest employers, has been sold to Accenture, a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company based in ...
Niota loses insurance shuts down city services

Coverage through the Tennessee Municipal League lapsed at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Athens Insurance owner Allen Carter said he received a letter from TML stating that the city did not meet the "long term results needed" for coverage to ...
Knoxville man sets couch on fire inside aparment

A Knoxville man is facing possible charges this morning after police say he set a couch on fire inside his apartment. Around 5:30 Wednesday morning fire fighters were called to Cagle Terrace Apartments. Investigators say that a resident who was being evicted set his couch on fire. The sprinkler in the apartment was able to extinguish the blaze. Fire fighters say that several other apartments ...

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The Ruling Class [DVD]

The historical rigidity and socially sanctioned elitism of the British class system has been a target of constant parody for centuries, from Jonathan Swift, to Oscar Wilde, to George Bernard Shaw, to Monty Python. With the onset of radical politics and social reform in the 1960s, overt satire of the British aristocracy died down as the view became more prominent that class inequalities were being ... ...

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Man arrested at scene of West Knoxville apartment fire

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A small fire broke out early Wednesday morning inside a West Knoxville apartment complex. One person was arrested at the scene. The fire started at Cagle Terrace Apartments, 545 Renford Road, just before 6:00 a.m. The building's sprinkler system was able to put out the fire, which was contained to one apartment. Police say the man arrested is suspected of setting the ...
Travel options grow as Megabus adds Lexington route

A new Megabus route from Knoxville to Lexington, Ky., adds to the options for Knoxville travelers who don't depend on a personal automobile for getting ...
UT Foundation to re-evaluate leadership role before finding replacement

A search to fill one of the top administrator roles at the University of Tennessee Foundation will begin after officials re-evaluate the ...
6 things to know today

Janelle Arthur will perform at 8 p.m. today on the Grand Ole Opry. Arthur, who came in fifth place on Season 12 of "Idol," will take the stage along with fellow country artists Dustin Lynch, Restless Heart, The Grascals, Larry Gatlin, Jim Ed Brown, Kristen Kelly and more. Tonight's edition of the Grand Ole Opry begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time, and can be streamed live ...
City of Knoxville offers annual Business Breakfast

Business owners interested in bidding on contracts worth millions of dollars with the city of Knoxville are invited to the city's annual Business Breakfast, to be offered at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Knoxville Civic ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

Hassan Rouhani

Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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New sulfur-based battery outperforms traditional lithium-ion technology

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

The ORNL battery design, which uses abundant low-cost elemental sulfur, also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries.

"Our approach is a complete change from the current battery concept of two electrodes joined by a liquid electrolyte, which has been used over the last 150 to 200 years," said Chengdu Liang, lead author on the ORNL study published this week in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Scientists have been excited about the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries for decades, but long-lasting, large-scale versions for commercial applications have proven elusive. Researchers were stuck with a catch-22 created by the battery's use of liquid electrolytes: On one hand, the liquid helped conduct ions through the battery by allowing lithium polysulfide compounds to dissolve. The downside, however, was that the same dissolution process caused the battery to prematurely break down.

The ORNL team overcame these barriers by first synthesizing a never-before-seen class of sulfur-rich materials that conduct ions as well as the lithium metal oxides conventionally used in the battery's cathode. ...