LANL Protesters Plead ‘Not Guilty’ and Hunger Strike Continues
Anti-nuclear peace activist, Barbara Grothus of Albuquerque, left, files a “not guilty” plea with Court Administrator Lisa Zuhn of the Los Alamos County Municipal Court. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
By Greg Kendall
Not Guilty
Los Alamos County Municipal Court Judge Alan Kirk presided over this morning’s arraignment of six demonstrators arrested Monday for blocking traffic during a protest at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Protesters Janet Greenwald, Barbara Grothus, Pam Gilchrist, Benjamin (Summer) Abbott, Catherine Euler and Cathie Sullivan Read More
NNSA Conducts 100th WMD Counterterrorism Exercise
NNSA News:
- NNSA, FBI Conclude Radiological Security Exercise at University of Cincinnati
WMDs. Courtesy photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. – NNSA’s Offices of Counterterrorism Policy and Cooperation and Global Threat Reduction and the FBI today announced the completion of the Bearcat Thunder counterterrorism table-top exercise at the University of Cincinnati (UC), the 100th exercise of its kind.
The exercise is part of NNSA’s Silent Thunder table-top series, which is aimed at giving federal, state and local officials, first responders and law enforcement critical, hands-on experience in responding Read More
Bingaman to Address LANL Employees Monday
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman will be in Los Alamos Monday, Aug. 13 and will address Los Alamos National Laboratory employees. - 10 a.m. – Bingaman
LANL Calls on Public for Help to Improve Plan
LANL News:
To accomplish our mission, Los Alamos National Laboratory generates some hazardous and mixed waste.
In November 2010, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) issued the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Hazardous Waste Facility Permit.
The Permit establishes standards for how LANL manages, stores and treats hazardous wastes on-site and for the closure and post-closure care of permitted waste management units.
The plan covers six elements
- Establishing an open working relationship with the public
- Establishing productive relationships with local tribes and pueblos
ChemCam Sends Digital ‘Thumbs Up’
Researchers from LANL and the French Space Agency examine data from the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover from inside the ChemCam Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday, Aug. 6., less than a day after the rover landed on Mars. The ChemCam team received signals indicating that the instrument is healthy and all systems are ready to go. Photo Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory/James E. Rickman
LANL News:
- Martian landing area could be a boon for scientific study
Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up Read More
Mutual Respect Framed LANL Protest
Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy shakes hands with a protester during Monday’s demonstration at Los Alamos National Laboratory, marking the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite any differences that may exist between demonstrators and authorities, an air of mutual respect permeated the annual event. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Deputy Police Chief Kevin Purtymun calmly chats with protesters from left, Benjamin (Summer) Abbott, Catherine Euler and Cathie Sullivan who are three of the six protesters who eventually were arrested Read More
DOE Awards $62 Million in Contracts to Accelerate Development of ‘Extreme Scale’ Supercomputers
Sequoia, an IBM supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, was on June 18, 2012 named No. 1 in the TOP500, a list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Here, Sequoia is installed in LLNL’s Terascale Simulation Facility in April 2012. Courtesy/LLNL
DOE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Under an initiative called FastForward, the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have awarded $62 million in research and development (R&D) contracts to five leading companies in high performance computing Read More
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