WIPP Conducts Q&A With Public
WIPP News:
With regard to the Feb. 5 incident, the public has asked a number of questions at recent Town Hall meetings and in an effort to share this information, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has provided some of the questions and corresponding answers:
Q. If the filters were not deployed, how much radiation would have come out of the exhaust?
A. We cannot speculate. The filtration system is in place to minimize the amount released to the environment, and this is what happened.
Q. Wasn’t there some time after the air monitors went off, but before the filters were deployed?
A. The shift to Read More
CCNS Calls For Independent Investigation of WIPP
Courtesy/WIPP
CCNS News:
By Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS)
It has been almost two months since the vehicle fire and radiation release from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and we don’t know the essential facts about what happened. We do know that the radiation release was never supposed to happen, and the federal government is unprepared to safely address the situation. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency, charged with determining whether WIPP would leak in 10,000 years, said it would not.
On Wednesday, two eight-person teams traveled down an elevator Read More
Tall Trees Trimmed at Bethe House on Bathtub Row
Workers brought out their tall ladder Friday to trim trees inside the fence at historic Bethe House at 1350 Bathtub Row. Physicist and history buff Clay Perkins and his wife Dorothy purchased the home last October and are paying for renovations expected to cost around $100,000. The home will house the Harold Agnew Cold War Museum. The couple is scheduled to donate the property to the Los Alamos Historical Society in September. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
LAMC Emergency Room Not Currently Covered By BCBSNM but Plans are in the Works for July
Los Alamos Medical Center. File photo
The Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) Emergency Room is staffed with a contractor not currently in the Blue Cross Blue Shield network.
A Los Alamos National Laboratory employee covered by the Lab’s Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico (BCBSNM) PPO plan, said that he assumed his health coverage would include local Emergency Room services. However, after a recent visit to the LAMC Emergency Room, which ended at the University of New Mexico Hospital’s (UNMH) Emergency Room, he reviewed his online claims activity.
“I Read More
Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrade Project Completed $1 Million Under Budget
LANL Acting Deputy Director Paul Henry
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrade Project (NMSSUP) was recently completed approximately $1 million under its original budget of $245 million.
NMSSUP upgrades security at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Technical Area-55, a facility that houses high-security plutonium assets and operations.
NNSA Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Security Michael Lempke
“The security of our nation’s nuclear material is our most important Read More
NIST Launches New U.S. Time Standard: NIST-F2 Atomic Clock
NIST physicists Steve Jefferts, foreground, and Tom Heavner with the NIST-F2 ‘cesium fountain’ atomic clock, a new civilian time standard for the United States. Courtesy/NIST
NIST News:
BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time and frequency standard, along with the current NIST-F1 standard.
NIST-F2 would neither gain nor lose one second in about 300 million years, making it about three times as accurate Read More
NanoDays at the Bradbury Science Museum Begin April 7
Bradbury Science Museum celebrates NanoDays beginning April 7. Courtesy/BSM
BRADBURY News:
The tiny world of nanoscale science is a big subject at the Bradbury Science Museum as we celebrate NanoDays 2014, April 7-13.
At NanoDays, a range of exciting programs will demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the nanoscale, examine tools used by nanoscientists, showcase nano materials with spectacular promise, and invite discussions of technology. By combining hands-on activities with presentations on current research, this nationwide event features new and unique Read More
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