Community: Register to tour ‘behind the fence’ at Manhattan Project National Historical Park

‘Behind the fence’ tours of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos, New Mexico, will take place Oct. 18, 19 and 20. Registration for the free tours will begin Aug. 1at 11 a.m. MDT and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of July 24, 2023.

Former physicist photographs Manhattan Project history where it happened

Thanks to Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist-turned-freelance photographer Minesh Bacrania, science enthusiasts, history buffs and the just-plain curious can now view seldom-seen sights of the Manhattan Project in the pages of the July/August 2023 issue of Smithsonian Magazine and in a large-scale display in the windows of the former CB Fox Department Store (1735 Central Avenue, Los Alamos). Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

Science: Laboratory’s giant rotor headed for Switzerland

What’s 69 feet long, weighs 230 tons and took a slow boat from Japan to Switzerland — final destination Los Alamos? If you guessed a giant rotor that runs a pulse generator, you’d be right! Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL