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LANL Awards Protective Force Contract To Centerra

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Aerial view of LANL, ‘1995 aerial TA-3 south to north’. Courtesy/LANL
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
Los Alamos National Laboratory has awarded its protective force services contract to Centerra Group, LLC.

Centerra won the contract over longtime LANL security contractor SOC LLC, which provided protective force services to Los Alamos for more than a decade as Protection Technology Los Alamos, and during the last five years as SOC Los Alamos.

“LANS LLC recently completed a competitive acquisition for protective force services at Los Alamos National

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Secretary Of Energy Asked To Investigate Safety Hazards In High Explosives Test Facility At Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab

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DOE News:
 
Legal papers served in Washington July 14 asked Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to investigate “substantial and specific danger to employees or to public health or safety” due to “technical failure and incidents” at the High Explosive Application Facility (HEAF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
 
Anthony T. Rivera, a 28-year veteran of the lab, said he was harassed and fired in October 2013 after reporting the hazards and other violations to lab management. The Department of Energy Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) dragged out his case until March
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Ceres’ Bright Spots Seen In Striking New Detail

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This image, made using images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, shows Occator crater on Ceres, home to a collection of intriguing bright spots. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

NASA/JPL News:

The brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres gleam with mystery in new views delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. These closest-yet views of Occator crater, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel, give scientists a deeper perspective on these very unusual features.

The new up-close view of Occator crater from Dawn’s current vantage point reveals better-defined Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Team Receives DOE Secretary’s Achievement Award

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The DOE Secretary’s Achievement Award is presented to the RLUOB Transfer Team. Front row from left, Denise Thronas, LANL Acting Deputy Director Paul Henry, LANL Director Charlie McMillan and Amy Wong. Back row from left, David Gallimore, Brett Cederdahl, Mike Parkes, Tim Leckbee and Tim Nelson. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • RLUOB Transition Team commended for excellence

The Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building (RLUOB) Transition Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory received the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary’s Achievement Award for its teamwork and performance. Read More

Los Alamos Arms Control Group Supports Iran Arms Deal

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U.S. negotiators, left, face Iranian negotiators during the March 17 Iran Nuclear Discussions morning meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz participated in the meetings. Copyright Creative Commons/Credit: U.S. Mission / Eric Bridiers

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

An independent arms control group in Los Alamos strongly endorsed a recommendation in favor of the recently negotiated weapons reduction agreement with Iran.

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Column: How To Get Your Spouse To Stop Working, A LANL Story

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By LEE MUNSON
Albuquerque

Nothing is better than driving up N.M. 4 early in the morning several times a year to visit my clients in Los Alamos.

My ritual includes putting on a pair of red Pillotti driving shoes and driving my four door daddy car like it is a mid-life crisis two door convertible up the hill. It’s a lifestyle thing. Yes, my mom lives up in Los Alamos and a decent chunk of clients worked there for years. So, I have a reason to go up there anyway, but I still choose the take the extra time and enjoy the scenery unknown to rat-race city dwellers. Who can resist posting a Facebook page of my morning Read More

Environmental Research Reflected In Obama’s Trip To The Arctic

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Cathy Wilson says, ‘I am collecting shallow cores to quantify the depth of the peat layer in the soil. The peat thickness strongly controls the transfer of heat from the atmosphere into the deeper soil, which impacts how deep the soil thaws each year. We then use the hole in the ground to perform hydrologic measurements. Peat depth and hydraulic conductivity are two important parameters that go into our models that predict the rates of permafrost thaw.’ Courtesy photo
 
Frozen Methane Bubbles in Alaska: When ice-rich permafrost thaws, former tundra and forest turns into a
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Community Invited To Hear Panel Of Los Alamos Residents Who Witnessed WWII At Lecture Sept. 8

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society announces its 2015-2016 lecture series, “70 Years Since World War II.”

We are honored to have a panel of Los Alamos residents who witnessed World War II in quite different ways. Young Mary Zemach was hiking with her botanist father in Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Mia McLeod was not yet a teenager in Holland when the Nazis occupied her country.

As an 18-year-old, Joe Bergstein survived the Bataan Death March and spent the next four years as a prisoner-of-war in the Philippines and Japan. Joe’s brother Ivan (Chick) Bergstein entered Read More

DOE Taps Todd Shrader To Lead Carlsbad Field Office

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New Carlsbad Field Office Manager Todd Shrader, third from left, during a tour last November at Hanford with EM Office of River Protection Manager Kevin Smith, right, Waste Treatment and Immobilization Project Assistant Manager Bill Hamel, left and EM Acting Assistant Secretary Mark Whitney. Courtesy/DOE

WIPP News:

The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of Todd Shrader as the manager for the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO).

“Todd Shrader is a proven leader and experienced engineer who has successfully tackled some of DOE’s toughest issues,” said Monica Regalbuto,Read More