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LANL: New Insights Into HIV-1 Design

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An HIV virus attacking a T cell. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a computational model that could change the way that researchers look at possibilities for an HIV-1 vaccine.

“An effective HIV-1 vaccine has proven elusive, partly due to the difficulty of causing an immune response that can neutralize the diverse viral strains circulating in the human population,” said Alan Perelson, of Los Alamos’ Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group. “Harnessing the power of broadly neutralizing antibodies, which emerge years into a chronic HIV Read More

NNSA: Last HEU Removed From Switzerland

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), working in collaboration with the Government of Switzerland, announced that approximately 2.2 kilogram of U.S.-origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) has been returned from the University of Basel in Switzerland to the United States.
 
The HEU is from AGN-211-P research reactor, which commenced operation in 1961 using U.S.-origin HEU Material Test Reactor (MTR)-type fuel. 
 
The reactor was operated for decades by the University of Basel
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Energy Department Announces $70 Million For Innovation Institute On Smart Manufacturing

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The Department of Energy announced Wednesday $70 million in funding for the next Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute, which will be focused on smart manufacturing.
 
With this investment, the Department aims to support research and development advancements that can reduce the cost of deployment for technologies such as advanced sensors, controls, platforms, and modeling for manufacturing by as much as 50 percent.
 
As part of President Obama’s National Network of Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (NNMI), the institute
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Los Alamos To Team With Procter & Gamble In Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative

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LANL and consumer products company Procter & Gamble will form one of the seven ‘innovation pairs’ working to bring sustainable ideas from some of the nations top scientists into the day-to-day world of manufacturing. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Clean energy manufacturing efforts will get a boost, thanks to a new national laboratory-industry collaboration pilot announced this week by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI).

Los Alamos National Laboratory and consumer products company Procter & Gamble will form one of the seven ‘innovation Read More

Secretary Moniz Unveils Roadmap To Double U.S. Energy Productivity By 2030

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DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz
 
DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― In support of the President’s goal to double U.S. energy productivity by 2030, Secretary Ernest Moniz unveiled a strategic plan today laying out a path businesses, state and local governments, consumers and other stakeholders can use to achieve this goal.
 
The report, Accelerate Energy Productivity 2030: A Strategic Roadmap for American Energy Innovation, Economic Growth, and Competitiveness, identifies proven and effective strategies and actions to advance energy efficiency.
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Van Andel Research Institute, LANL Developing Detailed Computational Model To Study Lung Cancer

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Even the most carefully crafted science projects starts with a rough brainstorm session. This whiteboard is from an early Los Alamos National Laboratory and Van Andel Research Institute team meeting to plan the approach for modeling lung cancer. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Scientists are developing a new tool to better study one of the deadliest types of lung cancer.

A multidisciplinary team, led by Jeffrey MacKeigan, Ph.D., associate professor at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI), in collaboration with William Hlavacek, Ph.D., of Los Alamos National Laboratory, is designing a mathematical Read More

SFI: ‘Space-Time Dynamics Of Uncertainty & Nonlinearity …’ Sept. 22

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Darryl Holm, Imperial College London
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) holds seminar “Space-Time Dynamics of Uncertainty and Nonlinearity: Modelling the unknown unknowns” with Darryl Holm at 12:15 p.m., Tuesday Sept. 22, at Collins Conference Room.
 
Abstract: Suppose you knew the basic physics underlying a nonlinear complex system, and your measurements of its behavior showed significant variability in space and time. (If you wish, think of the weather record in the Northern New Mexico region during your lifetime.)
 
Suppose also that the
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LANL Foundation Awards Small Educational Outreach Grant To Pajarito Environmental Education Center

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Students learning how to gently handle wild birds on a bird banding field trip. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) received a Small Educational Outreach award in August from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation Board of Directors.

This award provides funding in the amount of $1500 to allow Los Alamos fifth graders to attend bird banding field trips.

The field trips funded by the Small Educational Outreach award allow youth to participate in hands-on science education and become more familiar with birds in the area as well as the field science Read More

Regional Coalition Of LANL Communities Endorses Local Subcontractors

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By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

Big Box competitors for Los Alamos National Laboratory service and supply contracts are troubling small businesses in New Mexico, according to Jeff Lunsford of the Consortium of Major LANL Subcontractors.

The topic was under discussion in the New Mexico Legislature last year and has been an item of discussion with New Mexico congressional delegation. Contractual uncertainties have multiplied lately with the impending plan to transfer environmental cleanup work at the laboratory from the National Nuclear Security Administration to the Department Read More

WIPP Update: Supplemental Ventilation System

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SVS installed in the WIPP underground. Courtesy/WIPP

WIPP News:

The Underground Ventilation System at WIPP is undergoing a significant change that will provide additional airflow in the underground. 

The large fan that is part of the Supplemental Ventilation System (SVS) was recently downloaded to the underground and has been successfully installed. Read More