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New Santa Fe Institute Director David Krakauer Has No Plans To Keep A Low Profile

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New SFI President David Krakauer wants to move the organization beyond first gear. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

David Krakauer’s tenure as president of the Santa Fe Institute is barely three weeks old, but he is already maneuvering to shake things up.

On Wednesday, Krakauer invited a score or so of media types for an open-ended discussion at the Cowan Campus in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains overlooking Santa Fe. The purpose, he said, was to get a sense of the community, but he also asked what they might like to see from Read More

WIPP: New Hybrid Bolting Machine Ready For Service

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New hybrid bolting machine assembled at Wipp. Courtesy/WIPP

 

WIPP News:

WIPP’s new hybrid bolting machine was recently transported to the WIPP underground, where it was reassembled by site personnel.

The bolter is designed to run on either diesel or electricity. The unit was inspected and acceptance tested at the manufacturer’s site before it was disassembled and transported to the WIPP site. Operational checks have been completed, and the automatic fire suppression system has been installed on the unit.

Before the bolter can be placed into service, portable power units that will Read More

National Ignition Facility Fires 300th Laser Target Shot Of Fiscal Year 2015

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NIF News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Last week, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) fired its 300th laser target shot in fiscal year (FY) 2015, meeting the year’s goal more than six weeks early.
 
In comparison, the facility completed 191 target shots in FY 2014. Located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the NIF is the world’s most energetic laser.
 
Increasing the shot rate has been a top priority for the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program and in particular the NIF team at LLNL. The greater than 50 percent increase in NIF shots from FY 2014 to FY
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New Mexico Consortium Hosts 7th Anniversary Party

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The New Mexico Consortium hosts a party Tuesday evening at the Los Alamos Golf Course Community Building to honor recently retired Director Katharine Chartrand, right, speaking with Michelle Hurd, and celebrate the Consortium’s seventh anniversary. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
 
New Director Steve Buelow speaks with Robert and Claire Sanders at Tuesday’s event. ‘I am very excited to become director of the New Mexico Consortium. It’s a great organization that has much to contribute,’ Buelow said. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
New Director Steve Buelow
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LANL Scientist Cirigliano On Matter Over Antimatter

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Vincenzo Cirigliano

LANL News:

Vincenzo Cirigliano of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group discusses “matter over antimatter” in this month’s Science on Tap presentation.

Cirigliano’s talk is 5:30 p.m., Thursday at UnQuarked Wine Room, 145 Central Park Square in downtown Los Alamos.

There is ample parking in Central Park Square.

Science on Tap is a project of the Los Alamos Creative District. Discussions take place every Thursday evening at various locations and

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DOE Selects LANS For Carbon Storage Research

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This figure illustrates the geologic storage process and the different research efforts underway including tools designed to measure CO2 and its effects in the subsurface, the near-surface region, and the atmosphere. Data analyzed through acquisition of information from these tools may also be used to optimize injection operations, sweep efficiency, and identify possible unwanted CO2 migration pathways. Courtesy/DOE

DOE News:

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Los Alamos National Security, LLC to receive funding to Read More

WIPP: Radiological Contamination Mitigation Continues

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Courtesy/WIPP
 
WIPP News:
 
Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) personnel will complete the installation of the brattice cloth and salt barrier tthis week on a 570-foot section of floor in the WIPP underground.
 
The installation process includes rolling the brattice cloth out to cover the entire surface area of the floor and securing it to the ribs (walls) and in the center of the drift (access tunnel). Once the cloth is in place, it is covered with six to eight inches of mined salt to create a walking/driving surface.
 
This ensures radiological contamination
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LANL: Young, Jupiter-like Planet Discovered

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Jupiter-like planet. Couresy/LANL

LANL News:

A team of researchers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could provide a new understanding of how planets formed around the sun.

The new planet, called 51 Eridani b, is the first exoplanet discovered by the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), a new instrument operated by an international collaboration headed by Bruce Macintosh, a professor of physics in the Kavli Institute at Stanford University. It is a million times fainter than its star and shows the strongest methane signature ever detected on an alien planet, which should Read More

Acting EM Manager Christine Gelles Blazes New Trail

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Acting Manager Christine Gelles of the EM field office in Los Alamos at Wednesday’s ETEBA meeting in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
LOS ALAMOS DAILY POST

Christine Gelles will not forget Valentine’s Day, Feb.14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

“I had already had a really bad restaurant experience that day and then all of these reports came in,” she recalled 16 months later. “Life has been strange since then,”

That was the evening a barrel of plutonium waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory erupted at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the underground Read More

MOWW Guest Speaker Stephen Younger Aug. 18

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MOWW News:
 
This month’s meeting of the Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW) is 6 p.m., Tuesday Aug. 18, in the Los Alamos Research Park, 2nd floor conference room. 
 
The Los Alamos Research Park building is west of the South Mesa Fire Station. Parking is available east to the fire station (accessible from southbound lane of the Los Alamos Canyon Bridge) or east of the Research Park building (access is through the LANL control stations to West Jemez Road.)
 
Entrance to the Research Park main conference room is from the ground level by use of the
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