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Voting For Chamber Business Awards Ends 10pm Friday!

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CHAMBER News:

Voting is very tight in most of the categories! You have time for one final push before voting ends this Friday evening.

Don’t miss your chance to vote for your favorite Chamber member businesses and organizations in Los Alamos and White Rock! Voting is open until 10 p.m. this Friday, April 28.

Join the Chamber in recognizing great Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce businesses and vote now at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PDBYGT9.

Best New Business of the Year Award Nominees:
High Mountain Wellbeing, Inspired Jewelers, Jemez Mountain Brewhouse, SALA Los Alamos Event Center and

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NNSA Delivers 2023 Stockpile Stewardship And Management Plan To Congress

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monday, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration released the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan for Fiscal Year 2023.

This report describes NNSA’s plans to implement the Biden Administration’s 2022 Nuclear Posture Review by maintaining a safe, secure, reliable, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile, without the need for nuclear explosive testing and while revitalizing the nuclear security enterprise.

This year’s SSMP details efforts to accomplish program requirements including producing 80 plutonium pits per Read More

Celebrating Oppenheimer’s Birthday Los Alamos Style

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As is often the case for holidays and special events, someone around town decorated the J. Robert Oppenheimer sculpture Saturday on the lawn at Fuller Lodge in honor of his birthday. Photo by Nancy Bartlit

J. Robert Oppenheimer sporting a dapper tie and present in hand celebrates his birthday Saturday on the lawn at Fuller Lodge with General Leslie Groves. Photo by Nancy Bartlit Read More

Review, 2022 Triennial Ordnance Survey Report Added To LANL 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:

  • Review, 2022 Triennial Ordnance Survey Report, Solid Waste Management Units 00-011 (a, d, and e,) Guaje/Barrancas/Rendija Canyons Aggregate Area (Link)
  • Review,
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NNSA Invites Comments On Notice Of Intent For New Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement For Continued Operation Of Sandia National Laboratories

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NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) published a Notice of Intent (NOI) Friday to prepare a new Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque (SWEIS).

The purpose of the NOI is to invite participation in the process and to encourage involvement on the scope and alternatives that should be considered. The publication of the NOI in the Federal Register today begins a 45-day public scoping comment period. NNSA will accept comments Read More

LANL Director Encourages Community Partnerships With Rotary And Los Alamos Public Schools

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LANL Director Thomas Mason

ROTARY News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Director Thomas Mason was the keynote speaker at the recent Community Collaboration event at the Bradbury Science Museum sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos (RCLA) in alliance with the Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS.)

Mason discussed the Laboratory’s workforce programs and outlined continuing opportunities for collaboration between regional organizations and LANL. LANL has seen a steady increase in the need for a skilled workforce over the past few years and he spoke on the importance of the Laboratory’s Read More

NNSA Awards $428 Million Phase II Contract To Nuclear Fuel Services For Uranium Purification And Conversion

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a $428,050,945 Phase II contract to Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS).

This follow-on contract establishes capabilities for initial production and up to two years of full production for the purification and conversion of highly enriched uranium (HEU) and very highly enriched uranium (VHEU). 

NNSA is modernizing facilities, equipment and processes used at the Y-12 National Security Complex to recycle and recover HEU. A Phase II contract will ensure an oxide-to-metal conversion Read More

Fee Assessment For Technical Area 63 Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has announced that new documents have been added to the LANL Electronic Reading Room.

The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory:

 

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Dr. Richard Sayre To Give Keynote Lecture At Molecular Biophysics & Bioimaging Retreat At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Dr. Richard Sayre. Courtesy/LANL

NMC News:

New Mexico Consortium Scientist Dr. Richard Sayre will be giving an invited keynote lecture for the annual Molecular Biophysics and Bioimaging Retreat at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory May 3, entitled “Remodeling Photosynthesis for Enhanced Carbon Capture and Sequestration”.

Addressing the dual challenges of feeding a growing human population and mitigating atmospheric greenhouse gases will require substantial increases in biomass production and biological carbon capture, respectively.

These challenges cannot be met by increasing Read More

N3B Matches Funds For Family Strengths Network

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A family attends FSN’s field trip to Little Studio on the Mesa in early February. Courtesy/FSN

FSN News:

Family Strengths Network (FSN) announces a fundraiser for its Los Alamos Community Foundation (LACF) Agency Fund to be matched by N3B.

N3B agreed to match up to $1,500 in raised funds April 17-30.

FSN started as a child abuse prevention organization in Los Alamos in 1989 and has grown greatly in its offerings to families of Los Alamos and surrounding communities. Its mission is to provide education, support groups, and fun activities to all types of families, parents, teens, and children. Read More