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2024 Training Via WebEx On Contents/Use Of Los Alamos National Laboratory Electronic Public Reading Rooms

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The Department of Energy (DOE); Triad National Security, LLC (Triad); and Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, LLC (N3B) are holding a virtual training via WebEx on the contents and use of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Electronic Public Reading Rooms (EPRRs) and the use of the Intellus New Mexico (IntellusNM) public environmental data portal.

The EPRR is an information repository for environmental and administrative information and correspondence required by Permit Section 1.10 of the LANL Hazardous Waste Facility Permit, issued November 2010. The LANL Electronic Read More

Catch Of The Week: American Water Cyber Attack

By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For The Los Alamos Daily Post

Utilities such as gas, water and electric are necessities it is easy to take for granted. Loss of service due to natural disasters, such as hurricanes, happen; but what would happen if a utility company suffered a cyber-attack?

Unfortunately, that is just what happened earlier this month to American Water, the largest publicly traded utilities company in America. American Water is a major supplier of water in the US, serving more than 14 million customers across 14 states and 18 military installations. The company employs about Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Near-Earth Asteroid Data Helps Probe Possible Fifth Force Of The Universe

Bennu and other nearby asteroids. Courtesy/NASA

LANL News:

  • Analysis uses Bennu trajectory in effort to extend the Standard Model of physics

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample itself, the data generated by OSIRIS-REx might also present an opportunity to probe new physics. As described in the journal Communications Physics, a Nature journal, an international research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory used the asteroid’s tracking Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society Presents ‘The General And The Genius: A Grandson’s Perspective’ Monday Oct. 21

Los Alamos Historical Society News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society invites you to a unique evening of history for “The General & the Genius: A Grandson’s Perspective,” a fundraising event dedicated to the restoration of the historic cottage where Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer lived during the Manhattan Project.

This 95-year-old cottage is a national treasure, and the goal is to raise $2 million to transform it into a gallery that will comprehensively narrate the life and legacy of Dr. Oppenheimer, both during and after the Manhattan Project.

The event is 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, at Read More

Scenes From Memorial Service For Charlie McMillan

Family, friends and community gather this morning at Ashley Pond Park to celebrate the life of former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, who died in a vehicle accident Sept. 6, 2024, on the Main Hill Road. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Janet McMillan welcomes those gathered to honor and celebrate the life of her late husband Charlie McMillan (Oct. 25, 1954–Sept. 6, 2024), this morning at Ashley Pond Park. A full obituary is available here. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scene of family, friends and community gathered this morning at Ashley Pond Park to Read More

LANL Scientist Allison Aiken To Lead ARM Mobile Deployment And Atmospheric Research Campaign

Allison Aiken will lead DUSTIEAIM interdisciplinary team. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

          • DUSTIEAIM will investigate desert-atmosphere interactions in Phoenix

Allison Aiken, a staff scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is the lead of a new Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility campaign called Desert-Urban SysTem IntegratEd AtmospherIc Monsoon, or DUSTIEAIM, in the Southwestern United States. This campaign will take place in Phoenix from April 2026 to September 2027, and will utilize an ARM mobile atmospheric Read More

Kiwanis Hears From Bradbury Director Patrick Moore

Bradbury Science Museum Director Patrick Moore speaking to the Kiwanis Club Oct. 1 about the history of the museum, its projects and activities, and goals for the future. Courtesy/Kiwanis

By BROOKE DAVIS
Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos

Local Kiwanians were treated to a presentation at its Oct. 1 meeting by Bradbury Science Museum Director Patrick Moore.

Moore talked about the history of the museum, its projects and activities, and goals for the future.

Dr. Moore grew up in Los Alamos and received his degrees from NMSU and Arizona Stata University with specialization in public history, 20th century Read More

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