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Tenn. legislature funds monument for Oak Ridge civil rights pioneers
In a historic photo, students gather at the Oak Ridge high school in Tennessee. (Photo: DOE)
The Tennessee legislature has approved a $3.2 million proposal to fund a monument that will honor a group of 85 black former students known as the Scarboro–Oak Ridge 85 who, with support from the Atomic Energy Commission, became the first students to enter a previously white-only public school in the southeastern United States.
"We want to make sure that Oak Ridge and the Scarboro 85 get their rightful place in the civil rights history timeline; we do not want to be left out," said John Spratling, chair of the Scarboro 85 Monument Committee.
ANS recognition: The American Nuclear Society officially recognized and honored the Scarboro 85 in 2021 by awarding the group with the inaugural Social Responsibility in the Nuclear Community Award at that year’s Annual Winter Meeting.
H. Hashizume, T. Nishitani, S. Konishi, Y. Ueda, S. Fukada, A. Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | September 2015 | Pages 201-210
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-947
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Based on long-term research activities on fusion engineering, eleven key technologies for future fusion reactors, especially for demo reactor, were selected in the Working Group of fusion research under the Council for Science and Technology, MEXT.
In this paper, the recent achievement on the following key technologies will be summarized, which are strongly related to the Working Group proposal, 1) Fusion engineering research project in National Institute for Fusion Science, 2) High Tc superconducting magnets, 3) LiPb blanket system 4) Tungsten divertor and 5) Fusion engineering activities under the Broader Approach (BA) framework.
