DOE Awards Regional Coalition of LANL Communities $100K
NNSA’s Kevin Smith, Manager of the Los Alamos Site Office. Courtesy photo
NNSA News:
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos Site Office has awarded the State of New Mexico $100,000 in funding for the Regional Coalition of Los Alamos National Laboratory Communities to help address environmental and other related issues at LANL that affect the Regional Coalition’s members.
Under the grant funding, one of the key roles of the Regional Coalition will be to understand and help address the various issues regarding the cleanup and long-term management Read More
Asteroid’s Troughs Suggest Stunted Planet
An image taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on July 24, 2011, shows troughs along the equator of the asteroid Vesta, including Divalia Fossa, which is larger than the Grand Canyon. A new study analyzing these troughs finds that they are probably graben – a dip in the surface with faults on either side that would indicate that Vesta has characteristics much like a planet or large moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
AGU News:
WASHINGTON—Enormous troughs that reach across the asteroid Vesta may actually be stretch marks that hint of a complexity beyond most asteroids.
Scientists Read More
SFI: Three Lectures, Three Nights…
The Santa Fe Institute presents the Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture Series
Three lectures, three nights … The Many Faces of Complexity
Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 3, & 4.
James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe.
Lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Lord Robert May
Baron May of Oxford; professor, zoology, Oxford University and Imperial College; former president of Britain’s Royal Society and former chief scientific advisor to the UK Government; member, Santa Fe Institute Science Board.
Abstract: Renowned Read More
LANL Director Hosts R&D 100 Awards Ceremony
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan addresses attendants at the R&D 100 Awards Recognition Ceremony held Wednesday evening at the Hilltop House Hotel on Trinity Drive. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Staff report
Technology innovations at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been recognized with four of R&D Magazine’s 2012 “R&D 100” awards. These awards honor the top 100 proven technological advances of the year, as selected by a group of R&D Magazine’s chosen judges.
“Congratulations to this year’s R&D Read More
Military Control of U.S. Nuclear Security if Bill Passes
Anti-nuclear arms protesters display a banner during the April 2011 Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) rally at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Photo Credit: Brian Stansberry under CCA 3.0 Unported license.
Staff Report
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, has submitted legislation that would station American troops at the Defense Department’s atomic weapons facilities and at nuclear installations controlled by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Read More
SFI Colloquium: Algorithms, Equations and Logic
Martin Davis
Professor Emeritus, Courant-NYU; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, Sept. 26 • 3:30 p.m. • Noyce Conference Room
Abstract: In this talk, meant for a general audience, surprising relationships, will be explored among the three concepts listed in the title, including unsolvable problems and Gödel undecidability.
The discussion will include philosophical considerations.
Note: We are unable to accommodate members of the public for SFI’s limited lunch service; you’re welcome to bring your own.
SFI Host: Cris Moore
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NNSA Completes Removal of High Security Special Nuclear Material from LLNL
Research at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory supports the nation’s nuclear weapon Stockpile Stewardship Program as well as studies high energy density physics and astrophysical phenomena. Courtesy/NNSA
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced Friday that the last of the Security Category I/II special nuclear material items that required the highest level of security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have been removed.
LLNL’s primary mission will continue to be to Read More
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