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Fulton: Fond Memories Of 30 Years Working At LANL

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By DOUG FULTON
Retired LANL Employee

I am now in Grand Junction, Colo. and occasionally look at the online Los Alamos Daily Post. I was surprised and very happy to see yesterday’s edition with a picture of four people that I worked with when we were all much younger (link).

Jim Ogle was Deputy Group Leader of P-14  when I joined the Group as a postdoc in 1985.

Randy Carlson was a valued friend and colleague when we developed the Cygnus x-ray sources for the Armando SCE that was executed at the Test Site in 2004.

Joe Ladish was my Group Leader, in P-22, when I started as the Project lead to develop the Cygnus Read More

100+ Years Of Collective LANL Experience Get-Together

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Four retired Los Alamos National Laboratory workers and close friends got together today, May 2, in White Rock to reminisce and touch base with one another. Collectively the four represent more than 100 years of Laboratory experience. Coming from various parts of the country and backgrounds, the four shared the common experience of working at one of the most prestigious laboratories in the world. All four agreed on how fortunate they had been to wind up in a remote, historically significant, town where they spent the bulk of their professional careers. This photo depicts the four former Laboratory Read More

$2.5 Million In Grants From Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Operator Benefit Nonprofits, Students And Businesses

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Jenny Parks, president and CEO of the LANL Foundation; Val Alonzo, executive director of the Regional Development Corporation; Thom Mason, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Kathy Keith, director of the Laboratory’s Community Partnerships Office mark Triad’s 2023 Community Commitment Plan investment at a recent community event. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Economic diversity, education and community giving will get a big boost this year, thanks to a $2.5 million grant from Triad National Security LLC, operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“This funding underlines Read More

NNSA: W80-4 Life Extension Program Enters Phase 6.4, Production Engineering

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NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, Dr. Marvin Adams

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In March 2023, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs approved the W80-4 Life Extension Program (LEP) to transition into Phase 6.4, Production Engineering.

The W80-4 LEP achieved Phase 6.4 entry following successful execution of the Preliminary Design Review and Acceptance Group Review and the System Baseline Design Review, and passing through the System Pre-Production Engineering Gate.  

NNSA has shown that the Read More

LANL Foundation Announces $1.5 Million In Education Enrichment & Community Outreach Grants

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LANL FOUNDATION News:

ESPAÑOLA — LANL Foundation has announced $1.5 million in grant awards to 48 schools, school districts, non-profits, Pueblos, and tribal communities in their seven-county service area in Northern New Mexico.

$1.4 million in Education Enrichment grants was awarded and $100,000 in Community Outreach grants was awarded. Education Enrichment grantees will receive $50,000 over two years and Community Outreach grantees will receive a one-time award of $5,000.

“This was a very competitive cycle and we are so inspired by all of the amazing work being done in our communities,” Read More

Manhattan Project Film Series Coming To SALA

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SALA News:

The Manhattan Project remains one of the most intriguing and controversial events in modern history. It was a time when a group of brilliant scientists came together in Los Alamos and elsewhere to develop the world’s first atomic bomb. It was a time of secrecy and intense pressure, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Decades later, the story of the Manhattan Project is still being told and retold from different perspectives. Witness the much anticipated upcoming July release of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” scheduled to play at SALA beginning in late July.  Read More

LANL News: Limitless, Renewable, Nonpolluting Energy? You’re Standing On It

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LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories including:

  • Limitless, renewable, nonpolluting energy? You’re standing on it
  • How a trip to the Arctic could help us find life on other planets

Science: Limitless, renewable, nonpolluting energy? You’re standing on it

In the quest for energy sources that reduce carbon emissions to stave off global warming, geothermal energy is coming into the spotlight—and it should. Virtually limitless, ‘always on’ and widely available across all 50 states, geothermal resources offer a tantalizing opportunity to provide Read More

EM-LA To Hold Two Public Meetings May 8-9

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EM-LA News:

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) is initiating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of continued operations of the Interim Measures (IM) to control migration of the hexavalent chromium plume beneath Sandia and Mortandad canyons at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

EM-LA will also evaluate the environmental impacts of alternatives for the final remedy for the hexavalent chromium plume.

The 2016 Compliance Order on Consent (Consent Order) between Read More

Update To Site Discharge Pollution Prevention Plan Added To Los Alamos Electronic Public Reading Room

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)  announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • 2022 Update to the Site Discharge Pollution Prevention Plan
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Rotary Club Of Los Alamos Welcomes New Members Greg Holland And Annie St. Hilarie

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The Rotary Club of Los Alamos welcomed two new members during a recent meeting. Both Greg Holland and Annie St. Hilarie were sponsored by Tim Bullock, the Club’s President-elect. From left, Holland, Bullock and St. Hilarie, Club secretary and District 5520 Assistant Governor Laura Gonzales, who led the induction ceremony, and Club President Alison Pannell. Both inductees at employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory: St. Hilarie is an environmentalist, Holland is a program manager. Photo by Linda Hull/Rotary Read More