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Los Alamos Researchers Receive Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes

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Top row, Matthew Biss, Sowjanya Gollapinni. Bottom, Andrei Simakov and Etienne Vermeulen. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Simakov recognized for research; Biss, Gollapinni, Vermeulen for leadership

Four Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have been awarded Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes: Andrei Simakov received the Fellows’ Prize for Research and Matthew Biss, Sowjanya Gollapinni and Etienne Vermeulen received the Fellows’ Prize for Leadership.

“We are honored to celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of this year’s Fellows’ Prize recipients,” Laboratory Director Thom Read More

Los Alamos Researchers Named 2025 Laboratory Fellows

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Top row from left, James Colgan, Carl Ekdahl, Franz Freibert, Bryan Henson. Bottom row from left, Toshihiko Kawano, Charles Reichhardt, Tom Vestrand, David Zerkle. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • “These eight researchers exemplify the highest standards of scientific excellence,” –Thom Mason

Eight researchers have been named 2025 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows: James Colgan, Carl Ekdahl, Franz Freibert, Bryan Henson, Toshihiko Kawano, Charles Reichhardt, Tom Vestrand and David Zerkle.

“These eight researchers exemplify the highest standards of scientific excellence,” Laboratory Read More

LANL Director To Host Year’s Final Virtual Public Town Hall

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Lab Director Tom Mason

LANL News:

          • All New Mexicans invited; no registration required

All employees, their families and community members across New Mexico are invited to tune in to Laboratory Director Thom Mason’s final virtual Town Hall of the year, 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, on Zoom.

Mason will recap 2025 activities, including significant mission-related accomplishments and notable community-focused initiatives. He will also provide a brief preview of the year ahead and discuss some of the main challenges and opportunities for the Laboratory in 2026. Mason will close with a public Read More

LANL Flanged Tritium Waste Containers Shipped Offsite

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Manager Ted Wyka
NNSA Los Alamos Field Office 

LANL News:

On Friday, Nov. 14, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) successfully shipped the fourth and final flanged tritium waste container offsite for permanent storage.

The same day, NNSA and LANL released the FTWC Radioactive Air Emissions Summary, Volume 1 Stack Emissions & Off-Site Dose Consequence report. This first volume summarizes operations, documents emissions measurements, and reports radiological dose to the hypothetical Maximally Exposed Individual (MEI) Read More

Five Documents Added To LANL Electronic Reading Room

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, this email is to notify you that 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.

  • Notice of Completion of Off-Site Waste Shipment for Final Disposal, Activities 3.1.5 and 4.0, Compliance Plan, Site Treatment Plan, Federal Facility Compliance Order, Los Alamos
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Level 1 Starts Here: Local Voices Shaping Game Design—And Global Security

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This image of Pine Lakes Lodge is an example of modeling, texturing, AO/detail maps and collision (Xbox 360, 2007). Environment art by Holly Sheppard

Holly Sheppard, senior world builder at 31st Union. Courtesy photo

By MARLENE WILDEN
Los Alamos Daily Post
marlene@ladailypost.com

When 21-year-old Holly Sheppard began 3D modeling a simple office chair, she didn’t know she was helping lay the groundwork for a new kind of world building, one that could someday help train international nuclear inspectors.

Sheppard, now a senior world builder at 31st Union, was a University of Advancing Technology Read More

Catch Of The Week: Cloudflare Outage

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Cloudflare meme. Courtesy image

By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

What happened?

On Nov. 18, 2025, Cloudflare — a firm that helps power and protect a big chunk of the internet — had a major outage. Websites and services you use like ChatGPT, X, Spotify and more were either unavailable or showing error messages. Ruh roh raggy!

  • Cloudflare uses a “feature file” that helps its system spot bots and protect websites.
  • A change was made to a database system, which caused that feature file to double in size, beyond what the system expected or could handle. 
  • Because the file was
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UP Aerospace Carries LANL Payloads To Suborbital Space At Spaceport America

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UP Aerospace’s SpaceLoft-XL 18 rocket lifts off from Spaceport America in the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 19. Photo by William Gutman

SPACEPORT News:

LAS CRUCES — UP Aerospace completed its 23rd suborbital space flight at Spaceport America, carrying a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) payload to an apogee of roughly 72 miles, at 7 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 19.

“We extend our congratulations to UP Aerospace on its latest successful launch from New Mexico,” said Scott McLaughlin, Executive Director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. “Our two organizations have a history dating Read More

New Documents Added To Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Electronic Public Reading Room On Behalf Of EM-LA

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, this email is to notify you that 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.

Submittal of Site Deletion Requests for ACID-SMA-1.05 and 2M-SMA-1.67
https://ext.em-la.doe.gov/GovFTPFiles/api/GetFiles/GetFile?fileName=EMID-703983_N3B-2025-0342_EPA_Deletion_Request_ACID-SMA-1.05_2M-SMA-1_111025.pdf Read More