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LANL Closes A Gate On Infectious Diseases

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Los Alamos National Laboratory biomedical researcher Alina Deshpande is working on speeding awareness and strengthening global resilience against infectious diseases. Courtesy LANL
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

What’s the latest on chikungunya?

Don’t know? Never heard of it?

Don’t feel bad. Not many people outside the health profession have encountered this disturbing, infectious disease that has hit parts of southwestern Mexico very hard this month.

So try this: Go to swap.lanl.gov where there is an option box labelled “Select a Disease.” Click on the down arrow to

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LAAOR President Cindy Hollabaugh Joins Thousands Of Realtors® In DC To Advance Key Housing Issues

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LAAOR President Cindy Hollabaugh
 
LAAOR News:
 
Fighting for all current and prospective American home and property owners, more than 8,500 Realtors® stormed Washington, D.C., May 11-16, to urge action on various real estate issues during the 2015 REALTOR® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo.
 
President Cindy Hollabaugh of the Los Alamos Association of Realtors® (LAAOR) joined fellow Realtors® from every corner of the country to attend the meetings and visit lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Realtor® attendees, members of the National Association
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Heinrich: USA FREEDOM Act Only Responsible Path

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is calling for the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 to ensure the Intelligence Community has an updated legal framework to strengthen national security while also protecting the privacy rights of Americans.

The legislation will end the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection program that has allowed the government to collect billions of Americans’ private records while suspecting them of no wrongdoing. Read More

Energy Secretary Moniz Launches Key Initiatives

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DOE News:
 
MERIDA, MEXICO ― U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz launched several new initiatives with other global energy leaders at the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) and the sixth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM6) this week in Merida, Mexico.
 
These initiatives will further strengthen momentum in the Western Hemisphere and around the globe to combat climate change and accelerate clean energy technology and policies ahead of the December 2015 climate talks in Paris. At both ECPA and CEM6, energy ministers discussed technology solutions
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Udall, Heinrich Introduce Bill To Preserve And Expand Native American Languages

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced Thursday that they have introduced a bill to preserve endangered Native languages.
 
The Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act creates a new grant initiative to establish or expand Native language immersion programs. The grants will support the revitalization and maintenance of Tribal languages while increasing educational opportunities for Native American students.
 
“Native language education fosters pride and a feeling of interconnectedness
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WIPP Successfully Completes ISO 14001 Certification

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WIPP News:

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site successfully demonstrated to independent auditors that the WIPP Environmental Management System (EMS) meets all the requirements of the ISO 14001 standard.

After a recent three days of reviewing the 17 elements of ISO 14001, the auditors concluded the EMS program and procedures properly manage the environmental aspects and impacts of WIPP operations to meet the standard’s requirements. As a result, the certification of the WIPP EMS will continue for three years.

ISO 14001 is an international standard for the development of effective Read More

DOE Announces 23 New Projects

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON ― The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $60 million in funding for 23 groundbreaking new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.
 
The projects are funded through ARPA-E’s two newest programs, Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), which both seek to develop low-cost technology
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NNSA Conducts Experiment To Improve U.S. Ability To Detect Foreign Nuclear Explosions

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, a National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) led-team successfully conducted the fourth in a series of experiments designed to improve our ability to detect underground nuclear explosions.

The Source Physics Experiment (SPE-4 Prime) is a fundamental step forward in the U.S. effort to improve arms control verification, and will eventually be used to assure compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, Anne Harrington, noted that “The seismic Read More

Manhattan Project National Historical Park: NPS & DOE Field Team Visits Los Alamos June 2-4

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COUNTY News:

With the passage last December of legislation creating the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP), a field team of representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Park Service (NPS) has scheduled a trip to Los Alamos June 2-4.

This three-day site visit will include tours of historic buildings, both in town and on DOE/LANL property, as well as high-profile public and stakeholder meetings. 

The community is invited and encouraged to attend an important event during the team’s visit:

  • Public Meeting & Reception for the MPNHP Field
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Heinrich Introduces Energy Storage Promotion And Deployment Act

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
 
SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. introduced S. 1434, the Energy Storage Promotion and Deployment Act, to establish an energy storage portfolio standard for electric utility companies.
 
A utility may meet the standard with any combination of storage technologies and ownership, including storage located at homes or businesses. U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine is a cosponsor of the bill.
 
The bill would set national targets for energy storage in order to meet the growing demand on
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