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SlingShot Documentary Premiere & Discussion Aug. 7-13

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LANLF News:
 
The inspiring documentary film SlingShot will premiere at 7:30 p.m. Friday Aug. 7, at the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Santa Fe.
 
SlingShot features Dean Kamen, quirky iconclast and inventor, who has been called the Thomas Edison of our time. This film follows Kamen, who created several innovative products and medical devices that help people in need and ease suffering, in his newest endeavor to solve the world’s clean water crisis with a purification device called SlingShot.
 
This moving story is sure to engage
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Seventeen New Mexico Women Of STEM Honored

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New Mexico Women of STEM honorees from left, Diana E. Northup, Ph. D., UNM; Cristina Montoya, M.S., Sandia; Mia Kalish, Ph.D., NMSU; Nina Lanza, Ph.D., LANL; Phyllis Baca, M.S., SFCC; Rebecca Galves, M.S., NMSU; Turtle Haste, M.S., APS; Teri Roberts, B.S.; LANL; Mary Jemin, B.S., Expanding Your Horizons Conferences; Jill Wick, M.S., NMDGF; Lorie Liebrock, Ph.D., NM Tech; Jeri Timlin, Ph.D., Sandia; Janeen Anderson, B.S., Acaji; and Heather Yazzie-Kinlacheeny, B.A., Navajo Technical University. Also honored, but not in attendance, Patty Lopez, Ph.D., Intel; Diane Oyen, Ph.D., LANL; Read More

Secretary Moniz Statement On Release Of Final Clean Power Plan Rules

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U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today released the following statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued their final Clean Power Plan rule that will encourage energy innovation by reducing the carbon emissions from America’s power plants.

Below is the statement from Secretary Moniz:

“Before President Barack Obama took office, America did not have a comprehensive national plan to avert the worst impacts of climate change. Seven years later, we are cutting carbon emissions from our cars, our trucks, Read More

Scenes From LANL’s 2015 Hazmat Challenge

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C-130: This exercise was a mass casulty event caused by an ‘IED’ tossed into the hatch of a med-evac plane. In the exercise, the bomb landed on top of person in top bunk … the mission was to save victims two and three including a flight medic who was wounded and a person on a bottom bunk. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com

 

C-130: Med-evac plane used in last week’s HazMat Challenge at LANL. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
 

LANL News:

Hazardous materials response teams from New Mexico, Missouri and Nebraska tested their skills last week in a series

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LANL Foundation Offers Professional Development For Inquiry Science Teachers

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Teachers participate in the LANLF’s Inquiry Science Education Consortium (ISEC) program July 27-30 at El Camino Real Academy in Santa Fe. Courtesy/LANLF

Teachers participate in the LANLF’s ISEC program. Courtesy/LANLF

LANLF News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation’s Inquiry Science Education Consortium (ISEC) program offered its annual Summer Teachers’ Institute July 27-30 at El Camino Real Academy in Santa Fe.

Teachers in grades K–6 from Dulce, Española, Mesa Vista, Peñasco, Pojoaque and Santa Fe school districts were in attendance to learn to teach the curriculum Read More

Heinrich Secures Key Provisions For New Mexico Labs

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. ─ Sen. Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, secured key provisions for New Mexico in the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015, a bipartisan energy package that cleared the committee by a vote of 18-4.

Heinrich successfully included in the package a bill he introduced to authorize $50 million to cover the federal share of establishing off-campus microlabs that would serve as the “front-door” to national laboratories, including Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. Read More

WIPP: Schedule Changes For Resumption Of Operations

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WIPP News:

While the WIPP recovery program continues to make significant progress, the original target date of March 2016 for resuming waste emplacement operations is no longer viable due to a variety of unanticipated issues.

Over the past several months, a number of additional activities have been identified that need to be added to the project schedule, including safety related activities that are required to be completed prior to resumption of operation.

Key issues impacting the recovery schedule include the need to:

  • address the findings and recommendations from the Accident Investigation
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LANL: Mechanism Discovered For Controlling Ultracold Chemical Reactions

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The two reaction pathways (direct and looping) combine to determine the overall reaction rate for the chemical reaction. The ultracold reaction can be turned on or off depending upon whether the interference between the two pathways is constructive or destructive. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Discovery has important technological applications

Researchers have discovered a new interference mechanism in ultracold chemical reactions, one which has important technological applications in precision measurements, sensing and quantum computing.

“Remarkable progress in cooling and trapping Read More

Beyond Pluto: The Search For The Edge Of The Solar System Focus Of LANL’s Frontiers In Science Lectures

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An image of the IBEX spacecraft. Courtesy/NASA

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow and physicist Herb Funsten will explore the edge of the solar system and anticipate its future as it moves through our galactic neighborhood in a series of three Frontiers in Science lectures.

The first lecure is Aug. 5 in the Duane Smith Auditorium at Los Alamos High School, 1300 Diamond Dr.

Titled “Beyond Pluto: The Search for the Edge of the Solar System,” the talks focus on the heliosphere — the region of space under the Sun’s influence — that extends far beyond Pluto and forms a protective cocoon Read More

EM’s Los Alamos Site Completes Canyon-Side Cleanup

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A spider excavator extracts mercury-contaminated soil. Courtesy/energy.gov

A waste container is loaded for off-site disposal. Courtesy/energy.gov

DOE News:

The Environmental Management (EM) Los Alamos Field Office has completed the steep canyon-side cleanup of mercury-contaminated soil on DOE property just south of Smith’s Marketplace shopping center in Los Alamos.

The project was finished in about five weeks — approximately three weeks ahead of schedule. The field office, management and operations contractor Los Alamos National Security, LLC, and subcontractor TerranearPMC Read More