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The last day to drop off books for the Argonne Combined Appeal (ACA) used book sale is Thursday, Sept. 3. Collection boxes are in the lobbies of Argonne-East's Buildings 201, 203, 205, 362, 401, 900 and the Building 213 Cafeteria. Textbooks, magazines, encyclopedias or Reader's Digest condensed books cannot be accepted. The Combined Appeal's second annual used book sale will be held Sept. 10-11. For more information on the Combined Appeal see theACA home page.
Senior nuclear officials from International Nuclear Safety Centers in Russia and the United States have signed an agreement to continue collaborative research to enhance the safety of nuclear reactors around the world.
Present at the signing of the two-year, $500,000 agreement were Sergei Bougaenko, director of the Russian International Nuclear Safety Center; Vladimir Vinogradov, deputy minister of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom); David J. Hill, director of Argonne's International Nuclear Safety Center; and Yoon I. Chang, Argonne associate laboratory director for engineering research. The signing took place at Argonne-East on Aug. 21.
The jointInternational Nuclear Safety Center project was established in 1996 by Vice President Al Gore and Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Victor Chernomydrin.
The project's goals are:
To
maintain the basic knowledge needed to design nuclear
reactors;
To
cooperate in the development of technologies associated with
nuclear safety in nuclear power engineering; and
To serve
as international centers for the collection of information
important for safety and technical improvements in nuclear
power engineering.
One of the project's most significant accomplishments has been to establish and maintain two complimentary databases of information about nuclear power plants around the world.
Together, they provide a comprehensive resource for safety evaluation analysis of nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities worldwide.
Argonne's database can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.insc.anl.gov/, and the Russian database can be found at http://www.insc.ru/.
How many randomly generated arithmetic problems can a person answer in 60 seconds?
Find out by visiting "The ArithmAttack," a free software program offered to children and other arithmetic students around the world on Argonne's World Wide Web site.
The game can be played on the web page at http://www.dep.anl.gov/aattack. htm or downloaded free for use on individual computers.
"We hope children will use it at home and that teachers and schools all over the world will download it for their classrooms," said David Baurac (OPA), who wrote the program. "We want to make it easy and fun for anyone to acquire strong basic skills in arithmetic."
The ArithmAttack was written entirely in JavaScript and runs as a Web page on both major Web browsers -- Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 3.0 or higher, and Netscape Navigator, version 3.0 or higher.
The game creates problems using random numbers between 0 and 12. Students can instruct it to focus exclusively on addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, or can let it choose among them at random.
The entire program takes up only about 14 kilobytes of memory.
The Laboratory Director Search Committee has scheduled a series of meetings with Argonne-East employees to discuss the search process for a laboratory director and to seek input from employees.
All employees whose schedules permit are invited to attend. Meetings at Argonne-East will be held in the Building 362 Auditorium.
* Management meeting -- 10 a.m., Monday, Aug. 31.
* Senior scientists -- 2 p.m., Monday, Aug. 31.
* All employees -- 10 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 1.
The committee met with Argonne-West employees Aug. 4.
Argonne-West's United Way Kick-Off Barbecue will be held Sept. 10.
The theme of this year's campaign will be the "Power of U". The Master of Ceremonies will be Ken Torrey of Idaho 8 TV News, with entertainment by "Linna."
A golf-chipping contest is planned during the barbecue. For more information, contact Kris Statham (RPS), barbecue chairman at 533-7449.
According to Maxine Klossner (ED), Argonne-West United Way chairperson, several more events are planned in the next few weeks, including a silent auction, poker fun run, raffle and rally.
Zoltan Nagy (CMT) has been elected a fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
The fellowship recognizes Nagy's unique experimental and theoretical studies of fundamental electrochemical processes and his devoted service to the society. He will be honored at the society's meeting on Nov. 4.
A senior scientist, Nagy has spent 22 years researching electrode reactions in molten salts and high-temperature aqueous solutions. In recent years, he has also used synchrotron X-ray techniques for the study of electrode surfaces.
He has written more than 80 publications, including two books and several book chapters. He holds several patents.
The Electrochemical Society, founded in 1902, provides the principal forum for the presentation of scientific research and technology advances in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology.
Human Resources will offer several classes in office skills at Argonne-East during September.
Complete class descriptions can be found on Human Resources' World Wide Web pages at http://www.hr.anl. gov/services2.htm.
To register, call Betty Iwan (HR) at ext. 2-3410.
Preventing Sexual Harassment (HR137) -- Wednesday, Sept. 2,
from 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. in Building 201, Room 190. This
class is free.
Preventing Sexual Harassment For Supervisors (HR140) --
Tuesday, Sept. 8, from 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. in Building 402,
Room E1100. This class is free.
Stop
Procrastinating (HR233) -- A brown bag lunch seminar,
Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 11:30 a.m. _ 1 p.m. in Building
201, Room 238. The cost is $40.
Coaching
For Maximum Performance (HR634) --Wednesday, Sept. 9 from 1
p.m. - 5 p.m. in Building 201, Room 190. The cost is $25.
Time
Management (HR486) -- Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 1 p.m. - 5
p.m. in Building 201, Room 274. The cost is $25.
Performance Management (HR561) -- Monday, Sept. 21 from 1:30
p.m. _ 4 p.m. or Sept. 22 from 9 a.m. _ 11:30 p.m. in
Building 402, Room E1100-1200. The class is free.
Grant McClellan (TD) was honored for helping bring several new programs to Argonne-West, including a project for examining light-water reactor tritium-producing targets. This project involved upgrading the Idaho site's capabilities for handling commercial- size spent fuel.
Robin Stewart (ED) spent a year working toward the completion of the Mark-V electrorefiner control system, and was the driving force behind each phase of qualification testing and resolution of design and engineering problems. Stewart work many overtime hours developing code for relays and motor control sequences. Since the Mark-V control system uses a new generation of industrial controllers, he paved the way for the new technology and helped to establish new coding standard.
Editorial specialist Judith Beumer (MCS) processed about 100 submissions to the High Performance Distributed Computing Conference. These submissions arrived mainly by file-transfer and electronic mail, in several formats, and had to be sent to referees and recorded in a database. This exceptional effort, completed in a short time, came while Beumer was under pressure to complete several other demanding activities.
Custodian Jeff Dyszczakowski (PFS-CU) was honored with a Pacesetter for his continuing high level of performance and exemplary attitude. The nomination was submitted by 14 occupants of the second floor of Argonne-East's Building 201, who cited his courtesy, attention to detail and willingness to fulfill requests for additional service.
John Jasunas and Mike Skwarek (both ECT) senior computer specialists, put forth extraordinary effort and considerable overtime on a tight schedule to move networks for Industrial Technology Development and Environmental Management Operations as they relocated. Jasunas and Skwarek designed the networks, ordered, tested and installed equipment. They also worked with customers to resolve issues during and after installation. Much of this work was done at night to minimize disruption.
Robert Sommer (ECT-CS) worked with Fermilab to develop electron beam welding methods and techniques for a successful lithium proton lens septum program. Robin Reierson picked up the project and performed production welding on more than 16 assemblies. Their efforts have resulted in additional work from Fermilab.
Gene Argast(ED) retired June 15 with 21 years of service.
Daniel A. Berard(OD) retired July 31 with 35 years of service.
Janaye E. Berggren (OD) retired June 19 with 21 years of service.
Everet A. Clifton (OD) retired June 26 with 20 years of service.
Rudolph Damm (ASD) retired June 26 with 6 years of service.
Marian L. Harkins (CMT) retired July 31 with 19 years of service.
Nancy J. Ihrig (RPS) retired July 17 with 15 years of service.
Gordon S Knapp (MSD) retired July 23 with 24 years of service.
Anthony J. Kras (RE) retired July 6 with 36 years of service.
Leo G. LeSage (ERD) retired July 17 with 32 years of service.
Lawrence A. Neimark (ET) retired July 31 with 40 years of service.
Marion M. Oldham (HR) retired July 15 with 20 years of service.
Carmen S. Sabau (CMT-AC) retired June 19 with 19 years of service.
Gary D. Spaulding (RPS) retired on July 6 with 37 years of service.
Stanley Zellmer (ES) retired July 31 with 25 years of service.
Thomas E. Zinneman (TD-DES) retired June 19 with 24 years of service.