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ETEC News & Notes                         9/3/2025

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Friday Meeting Details

 

Jason Hatfield  

Vice President & Chief of Staff 

TRISO-X

Friday, September 5, 2025

7:30-8:30 a.m. (EDT)

In person in the UT Outreach Center and online via Zoom.

 

In Person (Registration Not Needed)

Meetings are held in the UT Outreach Center in Oak Ridge. Guests of our members are welcome. Find more information about our Friday morning meetings here.

 

Virtual Attendees (Please Register)
*Click here to register for the online meetings.*

To participate in the meeting via Zoom, register for this and future Friday meetings.

 

Meeting Sponsor

Thank you to Piper Communications for sponsoring the Friday morning meetings in August.

 

Next Meetings

September 12 - Dr. Georgia (Gina) Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, ORNL, Interviewed by Dr. Joe Hoagland, Director of Special Initiatives, ORNL

September 19 - Nathan Buttrey, Sr. Advisor to Commissioner McWhorter, Office of Innovation in the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. 

September 26 -Featured Friday with the ETEC Board of Directors. ( All members and their guest are welcome to attend.)

October 3 - Chad Duty, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI).

 

 

After Work with ETEC: The Enrichment & Diffusion Hour

September 17, 2025 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | K-25 Interpretive Center 

What: Networking, a short program, hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and visiting the centers
Where: William J. Wilcox, Jr. K-25 Interpretive Center; in 652 Enrichment Street, Oak Ridge, TN. 37830
Cost: Free 
Speakers: Alan Lowe & Gordon Fee

Sponsor: Acato Information Management

Host: AMSE Foundation

 

Join us at the new William J. Wilcox, Jr. K-25 Interpretive Center to hear about the history of the site and to network with young professionals. The After Work event series was created to connect established and early career professionals. The meetings are intended to facilitate relationship building, all ETEC members and guests are welcome. We encourage you to invite emerging leaders in your organization and your network to attend.

 

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Did You Know?

The State of Tennessee would like to know how your private-sector business is using AI.

Click here to take a short survey from the Tennessee AI Advisory Council at the State of Tennessee. The purpose of the survey is to assess how businesses in Tennessee are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for their operations and services. By completing the survey, you will help inform the Council’s recommendations for sound policies and strategies regarding AI use and adoption.

 

The Tennessee AI Advisory Council's mission is to provide a collaborative source of knowledge, expertise and information sharing to advance the State of Tennessee’s use of AI technologies in an ethical, adaptable, collaborative, and beneficial modality for all Tennesseans. 

 

 

New Member

ETEC Welcomes Nusano as a new member.

Nusano is a privately held physics company working to stabilize supply chains, advance American national security by reducing dependency on foreign supply, and enable one-in-a-generation innovations in fields ranging from healthcare to nuclear energy. The company is commercializing platform technologies for radioisotope production, stable isotope enrichment, and advanced separation techniques.

 

Keep In Mind

ETEC Awards Nominations are Open

ETEC is accepting nominations for the 2025 Muddy Boot Award and Postma Young Professional Medal through September 30, 2025. These will be presented at the Annual Meeting & Awards Celebration on December 12. To learn more and submit a nomination click here.

 

Weekly Wisdom

“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”

– Albert Einstein

 

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