LANL’s Piotr Zelenay Wins Research Award
Piotr Zelenay. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Piotr Zelenay of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Sensors and Electrochemical Devices group has won the 2012 Research Award presented by the Energy Technology Division of The Electrochemical Society.
The award recognizes Zelenay’s “outstanding and original contributions to the science and technology of energy-related research areas that include scientific and technological aspects of fossil fuels and alternative energy sources, energy management and environmental consequences of energy utilization.”
The award includes a monetary
Luján Urges Congressional Leaders to Support Labs During Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
- Lujan Will Co-Chair New National Lab Caucus to Highlight Importance of Labs to National Competitiveness
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District sent a letter to Congressional leaders today urging them to resolve the fiscal cliff in a manner that prevents damaging funding cuts to the national laboratories, including Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories.
In the letter, Luján highlights the important role these labs have played in providing cutting-edge research and innovation for applications ranging from national security to the Mars rover and Read More
Gell-Mann Presents ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’
SFI News:
The 2012 Science On Screen series wraps up at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, with Murray Gell-Mann’s presentation of Jamie Uys’ groundbreaking 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy.
The event takes place at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe.
In the movie, a wayward Coca-Cola bottle upsets the balance in a utopian African village, setting off a chain of unlikely events, including bewildering (and hilarious) confrontations with “modern culture.”
Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate, physicist, complexity pioneer, world traveler, and Santa Fe Institute icon Read More
NNSA, Los Alamos County Revised Fire Protection Agreement a Win-Win
Shaking hands recently on a modified Cooperative Fire Protection Agreement are from left, LASO’s Kevin Smith, Fire Chief Troy Hughes and County Administrator Harry Burgess. Courtesy/LAC
NNSA/COUNTY News:
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Los Alamos Fire Department (LAFD) recently modified the Cooperative Fire Protection Agreement to ensure world-class emergency response capabilities for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Los Alamos County.
County Administrator Harry Burgess and Manager Kevin Smith of NNSA’s Los Alamos Site Office signed Read More
LANL’s Dr. Wingo Introduces Rotarians to the Power of Domestic Honeybees
Dr. Bob Wingo discusses the power of bees as Rotary President Linda Hull and her husband Robert Hull of Los Alamos Technical Associates (LATA) listen at right. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Staff Report
The incredible power of bees as a detection tool was literally the buzz among many Rotarians assembled for a lunchtime presentation Tuesday at the Dixie Girl Restaurant in downtown Los Alamos.
Dr. Robert M. Wingo, the Environmental Science and Engineering Team Leader for the Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory delivered the talk.
Domestic Read More
NNSA Completes Removal of All HEU From Austria
Anne Harrington
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), the Vienna University of Technology, and the Government of Austria Tuesday announced the successful return of all remaining U.S.-origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) nuclear reactor fuel from Austria to the United States.
This makes Austria the 22nd country that has worked with GTRI to remove all HEU from its territory.
“The completion of this project with Austria is another important step in the global effort to minimize the civilian use of Read More
Plutonium Going Strong at 150 Years
Livermore chemist Brandon Chung, left, and mechanical technologist Kenneth Lema peer through a glovebox to check the setup on the dilatometer that measures the dimensions of plutonium samples. Courtesy/S&TR
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REVIEW News:
PLANNING the future needs of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile as well as the nuclear weapons complex depends in part on maintaining confidence in the long-term stability of the pit, or core, of plutonium-239 residing inside every weapon.
Scientists and engineers who ensure the safety and reliability of the nation’s stockpile had Read More
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