1997 New Releases
December
1997-12-24 BNL Spent Almost $33 Million on Long Island in 1997
1997-12-22 DOE
Press Release Energy Department
Cites Associated Universities for Safety Violations
BNL Statement: Statement by Peter
Bond, BNL Interim Director, On Safety Violations Cited by Department
of Energy
1997-12-18 BNL Begins Pumping Water Out of Reactor Pool
Action Will Stop Tritium Leak
1997-12-18 BNL Opens $13M, Environment-Protecting Waste Management Facility
1997-12-17 Caption:BNL's Sewage Treatment Plant Upgraded
1997-12-16 BNL Reports on Second Phase of Sitewide Facilities Review
1997-12-16 Media Advisory: Dec. 18 Opening of Environment-Protecting Waste Management Facility
1997-12-15 Caption: Holiday Meal for Seniors to be Prepared at BNL by Red Cross
1997-12-15 BNL To Bury Two Time Capsules, December 16
1997-12-10 W.R.
Grace - BNL Release Grace and BNL
Develop First Product to Chemically Eliminate Asbestos in Installed
Fireproofing
-- Product Destroys
Asbestos While Maintaining
Original Materials' Fire-resistive Capabilities on Columns and
Beams--
-- Product Should Provide Significant Cost Savings to Building
Owners--
Statement
by U.S. Secretary of Energy Federico Peña
1997-12-09 Diversity "Leaves" Off Where Similarity
Begins
Discovery Important for Global Climate Change Studies
1997-12-08 BNL Scientists Cheer Signing of U.S.-Europe Agreement on New Collider
1997-12-03 Scientists Study How Light Activates St. John's Wort Chemical Known to be Toxic to Viruses, Cancer
1997-12-01 BNL Sensor Used in NYC Emergency Drill
Sensor Identified Chemical From 15 Feet Away in Eight Minutes
November
1997-11-25 DOE
Press Release
Energy Department Announces New Contractor
to Improve Management of Brookhaven Lab
Procurement Selection Made in Record Time
|
Statement by U.S. Secretary of Energy Federico Peña |
Introducing
Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) -- new management contractor
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Webcast Video of Press Conference (Requires RealAudio Player) |
1997-11-20 DOE Press ReleaseEnergy Department Begins Formal Environmental Review of Brookhaven Reactor
Notice of Intent for Environmental Impact Statement
1997-11-19 DOE Independent Oversight Followup Review:Status ofTritium Plume Recovery Activities at BNL (report in PDF format)
1997-11-19 Stony Brook Opera Ensemble to Perform at BNL on Dec. 11
1997-11-18 BNL-DOE
Press Release
BNL Cleans Up Remnants of 1977 On-Site Oil Spill
1997-11-18 Science Comes Alive in 3-D With BNL Visualization
Technique
Interactive Exhibit at Supercomputer
'97 Conference
1997-11-13 House
Science Committee Press Release
Committee Receives GAO Report on Brookhaven
(report in PDF format)
1997-11-13 DOE
Media Advisory
November 20 Workshop on Potential Community Advisory Council for
BNL
1997-11-06 Massive Physics Apparatus Arrives at BNL
Six-ton "Heart" for Experiment at New Atom Smasher
1997-11-05 BNL
Contract Process: Message to BNL
Employees from Dean Helms and
Letter from Secretary of Energy Federico Peña to Congress
1997-11-05 Signs of Life in Mars Meteorite?
BNL X-Rays Help Scientist Find Out (photo & caption)
1997-11-03 BNL Converts to Gas Heat But Retains Ability to Heat with Oil
October
1997-10-30 New Imaging Method Could Vastly Improve Breast
Cancer Detection
BNL Scientists, X-ray Facility Aid in Development
1997-10-30 Brookhaven Biochemist Receives Presidential Award
1997-10-30 Media Advisory: Massive Physics Apparatus to Arrive on LI Via Cargo Plane Nov. 6
1997-10-30 Brookhaven Spotlights
1997-10-23 Update on Environmental Cleanup Activities
Brookhaven Lab Reports on Corrective Actions
1997-10-22 Media Advisory: BNL to Host 2nd Annual Pine Barrens Research Forum, October 30-31
1997-10-16 ATSDR Announces Public Comment Period for the BNL Site Health Consultation
1997-10-15 Cello-Piano Duo to Perform at Brookhaven Lab, Nov. 6
1997-10-06 Status of Environmental Management Activities
September
1997-09-22 Rarest Particle Decay Seen at BNL
1997-09-22 New U.S.-Japanese Physics Center Opens at BNL
1997-09-19 Pianist Kathleen Boyd to Perform at BNL Oct. 7
1997-09-18 Media Advisory: Opening of Joint Japan-U.S. Physics Center at BNL Sept. 22
1997-09-10 Environmental Management Update at BNL
1997-09-04 BNL's New Degreasing Facility Helps Prevent Pollution
1997-09-01 Evidence of New Particle Seen at BNL Accelerator
August
1997-08-29 BNL Develops High-Performance Cement
1997-08-21 BNL Wins R&D 100 Award for a Novel Detector: The Fluorescence Omnilyzer
1997-08-19 Construction Incident August 15 at BNL: No Worker Exposure, No Environmental Release Seen
1997-08-18 BNL Announces 1997-1998 Concert Series
1997-08-15 50th Anniversary Lecture at BNL on "Alfred Nobel's Will" Sept. 16
1997-08-15 BNL Honored for Environmental Research
1997-08-08 50th Anniversary Lecture: Nobel Laureate to Discuss Theories of Brain Function September 2 at BNL
1997-08-08 Visit BNL's High Flux Beam Reactor on Aug. 24
July
1997-07-29 BNL Reports Unexpected Tritium Levels at its Sewage Treatment Plant
1997-07-29 August 14 Public Information Session on Process to Decide the Future of BNL Reactor
1997-07-29 Sayville Woman Wins $2,000 Scholarship from BNL
1997-07-28 Raphael Trio to perform at BNL Aug. 26
1997-07-17 BNL Spotlights: Devising a Quiet Jackhammer; Using a Chinese Herb to Treat Alzheimer's Disease; Changing Materials From Insulators to Conductors; and Better Batteries, Better Cars
1997-07-15 Statement by Peter Bond, Interim BNL Director, on Preliminary Findings of EPA Audit
1997-07-15 DOE News Release EPA Takes Look at BNL; DOE Issues Action Plan
1997-07-15 BNL Begins Operating Groundwater Cleanup System To Treat Volatile Organic Chemicals
1997-07-09 BNL Tests Help Mars Rover Stand Up to Space Radiation
1997-07-01 AUI News Release: AUI Board Names Peter Bond New Interim Director of BNL
June
1997-06-27 BNL Recognized for Support of Disabled
1997-06-25 Media Advisory:July 7 Kickoff at BNL for NY Math, Science & Technology Teaching Initiative
1997-06-25 Media
Advisory: July 1 Information Session
at BNL
"Cleanup and World-Class Science: A Vision for BNL's Future"
1997-06-20 Contractor Construction Worker Killed
in Accident on BNL Site
Statement by Dean Helms, Deputy Executive
Manager, DOE Brookhaven Group
Statement by
Federico Peña, Secretary of Energy
1997-06-19 BNL Issues 1995 Environmental Report
1997-06-19 BNL Brain Tumor Therapy Moves to Next Phase of Clinical Trial
1997-06-16 Free Summer Sunday Tours at Brookhaven Lab Start July 13
1997-06-16 Pianist David Korevaar to Perform at BNL, July 9
1997-06-16 DOE
Press Release
DOE Seeks Comments on Plans to Select a New Contractor to Operate
BNL
1997-06-11 Media Update: June 11 Update on Groundwater Contamination Near Underground Collection Tank
1997-06-10 Two Workers at Brookhaven Lab Exposed to Low-Level Radiation
1997-06-10 BNL Plans Management Improvements
As Part of DOE 30-Day
Action Plan
1997-06-06 50th Anniversary Lecture at BNL July 1
Nobel Laureate to Recount His Discovery of Superfluid Helium-3
1997-06-04 Six Workers Exposed to Radiation at BNL Medical Reactor; No Release of Radioactivity to Environment
1997-06-04 BNL-Swedish Team Takes Important First Step
Toward "Designer" Vegetable Oils
(Also featured in Science
News )
1997-06-02 Community Open House at BNL, June 29
May
1997-05-28 BNL Welcomes DOE Contract Plans
1997-05-28 DOE
Press Release
DOE Announces Plans to Seek a Contractor to Operate BNL
1997-05-21 50th Anniversary Lecture at BNL, June 11
"Biotechnology: Biology or Technology?"
1997-05-13 Media Advisory: High School Science Day Open House
1997-05-08 BNL to Begin Interim Tritium Remediation May 12
1997-05-01 Statement by Lyle Schwartz, BNL Interim Director, on DOE Contract Announcement
1997-05-01 DOE Press Release
Secretary Peña Terminates Brookhaven Contract
Peña Says This Step Necessary to Build Public Trust
1997-05-01 BNL-AUI Responses to Dept. of Energy Integrated Safety Management Evaluation (Click here to read the ISME Report)
1997-05-01 BNL Response to the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee
on Environmental, Safety and Health Decision Making at BNL
(Click here to read the report)
1997-05-01 BNL-AUI Announce Aggressive Response to DOE Review
April
1997-04-28 AUI
Press Release
Associated Universities Board Names
Interim Director of BNL
1997-04-23 Discover Magazine Honors BNL Invention
1997-04-23 BNL-DOE
Press Release
U.S. Dept. of Energy Seeks Public Comment
Cleanup Alternatives Presented for Inactive Waste Areas At
BNL
1997-04-21 BNL-DOE
Press Release
BNL Spent Fuel Pool Considered Primary Source of Tritium Groundwater
Contamination
Horizontal Well Data Now Available
1997-04-18 Maglev Contest Media Advisory
1997-04-17 BNL-DOE
Press Release
Statement from Department of Energy Officials Regarding BNL
1997-04-16 BNL Physicist & Industrial Partner Receive Award
1997-04-14 Lyme Disease Secrets Revealed at BNL
1997-04-12 What Causes Brown Tide? BNL, Suffolk County Scientists Publish New Theory
1997-04-03 BNL-DOE-EPA
Press Release
April 3 Update on Groundwater
Contamination at BNL
1997-04-03 U.S.-Japanese
Cooperation Yields New Physics Center For BNL
To be headed by Nobel Prize Winner T.D. Lee
March
1997-03-31 BNL Researchers Win Award from Phycological Society of America
1997-03-27 BNL-DOE
Press Release
March 27 Update on Underground Collection Tank at BNL
1997-03-27 BNL-DOE-EPA
Press Release
March 27 Update on Groundwater Contamination at BNL
1997-03-26 New Imaging Instrument for BNL Drug Addiction Studies
1997-03-21 BNL-DOE-EPA
Press Release
March 21 Update on Groundwater Contamination at BNL
1997-03-17 Marc-Andre Hamelin to Perform at BNL April 13
1997-03-14 Environmental Survey Results from BNL
1997-03-10 Community College Students Participate In BNL's Mini-Semester Program
1997-03-10 BNL-DOE-EPA
Press Release
March 10 Update on Groundwater Contamination at BNL
1997-03-07 BNL Announces Retirement of Director
1997-03-04 DOE
Statement
March 4 Update on Groundwater Contamination at BNL
February
1997-02-28 Edward Murphy Heads BNL's Plant Engineering Division
1997-02-28 50th Anniversary Lecture at BNL, March 20
"Tracking Global Epidemics: Cholera as a Paradigm"
1997-02-25 Scholarship for Women Science Students
1997-02-24 Festetics Quartet and Fortepianist Maria Rose
to Perform at BNL Mar. 23
1997-02-20 BNL-DOE-EPA
Press Release
February 20 Update on Groundwater Contamination at BNL
1997-02-18 Talk on the Birth of BNL To Be Held Mar. 19
1997-02-14 How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?
Insights Revealed Using PET Imaging at BNL
1997-02-13 BNL-DOE-EPA
Press Release
February 13 Update on Contamination at Brookhaven Lab
1997-02-06 BNL-DOE-EPA
Press Release
February 6 Update on Contamination at Brookhaven Lab
1997-02-06 AUI
Press Release
Lyle H. Schwartz to Become President of Associated Universities
Inc.
1997-02-06 BNL Remains a Major Employer on Long Island Despite Budget Cuts of 1997
January
1997-01-31 Update on Groundwater Contamination at BNL
1997-01-29 50th Anniversary Lecture at BNL On 'Exploring Brain Function with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance' Feb. 27
1997-01-27 Brookhaven Atom Smasher Goes for the Gold
1997-01-24 A New View of the Brain at New Brookhaven MRI
1997-01-18 BNL Notifies Staff of Groundwater Contamination on Site
1997-01-16 BNL Developing Corrosion-Resistant Coatings for Aircraft and Aluminum-Smelting Industries
1997-01-10 Weather of '96 -- The Whitest and Almost the Wettest Year on Record
1997-01-08 BNL Completes Groundwater Cleanup System
