EM-LA, N3B To Discuss Legacy Waste Program Overview Today, Sept. 10 At SALA
N3B News:
Are you curious about the legacy cleanup mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)? Do you want to learn more about the progress made over the past year to protect our environment and safely dispose of radioactive waste? Please join us for a community meeting at the SALA event center from 5–7 p.m., Sept. 10, 2025. We want to hear from you.
The meeting will be hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its contractor, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, LLC (N3B).
This event will feature discussions on:
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NNSA, LANL Given Okay To Depressurize Containers
From LANL:
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Los Alamos Field Office and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) received Temporary Authorization from the New Mexico Environment Department to safely perform the controlled depressurization of headspace gas from four flanged tritium waste containers at LANL’s Technical Area 54, Area G.
The “Transmittal of Notification of Planned Start of a Temporary Authorization Request” is posted in the LANL Electronic Public Reading Room at https://eprr.lanl.gov/.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Read More
Community Invited To Tour Trinity Site Ground Zero Oct. 18
NMDCA News:
Don’t miss the fascinating Trinity Site Tour! The Trinity Site is where the first atomic bomb was detonated on 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. There, you will walk around Ground Zero of the first atomic bomb (the Gadget), and you will take a shuttle to the McDonald Ranch House, where the plutonium core was assembled.
Tours to the public only occur once a year, and this bus tour is nearly sold out.
Check-in is 6 a.m., tour buses depart at 7 a.m. and return at 3:15 p.m. (estimated time varies), Oct. 18, 2025. Cost is $155 per person (Museum members Read More
Reminder: LANL To Repave East Jemez Road Sept. 7-30
Map of the paving work to be completed in two phases. Phase 1 (yellow on the above map) begins on Sept. 7, 2025, and Phase 2 (green on the above map) begins in mid-September. Courtesy/LANL
UPDATE: Project will now begin Sunday, Sept. 7, due to weather conditions.
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will be repaving East Jemez Road from the N.M. 4 intersection (mile marker 10) to the start of the three lanes and the climbing lane (mile marker 7.6). Drivers should anticipate traffic delays and potential traffic pattern shifts during this project.
Los Alamos Police Cmdr. Chris Ross said, Read More
New Documents Have Been Added To Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Electronic Public Reading Room
LANL News:
New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.
All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.
For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.
- Submittal of the Quarterly Report for the Discharge of Treated Groundwater to the Regional Aquifer under Discharge Permit 1835, Calendar Year 2025 Quarter 2, Class V Underground Injection Control Wells
https://ext.em-la.doe.gov/GovFTPFiles/api/GetFiles/GetFile?fileName=EMID-703896_N3B-2025-0245_DP-1835_2QCY25_082825.pdf
New Documents Added To LANL Electronic Reading Room
LANL News:
Per regulatory requirements, this email is to notify the public that the following documents have been added to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Electronic Reading Room.
The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 2025 Los Alamos National Laboratory Hazardous Waste Facility Permit Community Relations Plan
- Review Technical Area 63 Transuranic Waste Facility Soil Vapor Monitoring System Report, Calendar Year 2025, Quarter 2, Los Alamos National Laboratory EPA# NM0890010515 HWB-LANL-25-034
- Los
NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Launches Frontier AI Models On Venado Supercomputer
NNSA News:
ALBUQUERQUE — After moving to a classified network earlier this year, the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory is now running OpenAI’s latest o-series reasoning models to accelerate national security research. Venado, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, is the 19th-fastest supercomputer in the world and serves as a shared resource for researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories.
“Artificial Intelligence will be the defining technology of the 21st century, and NNSA is already examining how AI intersects Read More
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