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LANL Scholarship Helps Taos Student Achieve Goals

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Dawn Penso met AESF’s rigorous merit-based requirements to earn the $10,000 John and Marti Browne Endowed Leadership Scholarship. Courtesy/LANLF

LANLF News:

For Dawn Penso, the word “goal” has important significance both on and off the soccer field. From an early age, the accomplished athlete and Taos High School graduate has used her personal drive to stay focused on her aspirations.

A tumultuous upbringing led Penso to seek comfort outside her home environment. At the age of seven, she discovered soccer as a positive outlet to “get in the zone” and clear her head of challenges she faced with Read More

Energy Secretary Announces Launch Of New Veterans’ Utility Industry Transition Effort

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DOE News:
 
NEW ORLEANS ― The Obama administration has made helping veterans find civilian employment and reintegrate into the nation’s workforce and economy a top priority. 
 
Further building on that effort, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced the creation of the Utility Industry Workforce Initiative during a speech at the Edison Electric Institute conference in New Orleans.
 
This key partnership between the Departments of Energy, Labor, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, and five utility trade associations will recruit
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DOE Invests $60 Million To Aid Nuclear Technology

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Friday June 5, the Energy Department announced more than $60 million in nuclear energy research and infrastructure enhancement awards.
 
Sixty-eight projects from across the country were selected based on their potential to create scientific breakthroughs that both help strengthen the nation’s energy security and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
 
“I remain convinced that nuclear energy will continue to be an important part of the nation’s energy portfolio, accounting for more than 60 percent of carbon-free electricity in the
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MPNHP Field Team ‘Clearly Saved Best Site For Last’

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MPNHP Field Team leader Arthur Knox wowed the crowd Tuesday at Fuller Lodge when he said, ‘This is our team’s third stop on the tour of the Manhattan Project National Historic Park sites … it is clear that we saved the best for last.’ Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos County Council Chair Kristin Henderson, center, presents the Keys to the County to MPNHP Field Team leader Arthur Knox and DOE Under Secretary Laurie Morman. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Manhattan Project National Historical

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Snodgrass: Fixing A Hole Where The Blame Gets In … The Dangerous Gap Between An Act Of Nuclear Terrorism And An Informed Response

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Radiological Dispersion Device. Courtesy/ready.gov

Fixing A Hole Where The Blame Gets In

  • The dangerous gap between an act of nuclear terrorism and an informed response

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

The specter of a nuclear 9/11 may have diminished in the last five years with the partial dismantlement and dispersal of the Islamic militant organization al-Qaida. But the threat of nuclear sabotage as one of the worst imaginable disasters has found a new sponsor in the al-Qaida offspring, the apocalyptic Islamic State, now enjoying battlefield successes in Iraq and Syria and Read More

LANL’s VISIBLE Team Teaches Los Alamos Teens The Art And Science Of Creating Video Games

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Travis Burkett, right, and other members of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s ‘VISIBLE Team’ (Virtual Simulation BaseLine Experience) were at the Los Alamos Teen Center Friday to teach the art and science of creating video games. ‘It’s for serious purposes but we basically make video games at the Lab,’ Burkett said. ‘We’re trying to get kids interested in artistic careers. This is a field that is only going to grow.’ Team members not in photo include Giovanni Sabella, David Dunn, Elise Elfman and Adan Patino. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
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LANL Workers Alerted To Cybersecurity Threat

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LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) employees were notified Thursday in a memo by LANL Director Charlie McMillan of a cybersecurity incident that could put employee and subcontractor personal information at risk.

Director McMillan Memo:

SUBJECT: Office of Personnel Management Cybersecurity Incident

This afternoon we were notified by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) of a cybersecurity incident involving U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) systems and data containing personal information. The breadth of exposure is still being evaluated, and there is a possibility Read More

Air Monitors Installed Near Los Alamos County Airport

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Every so often Los Alamos National Laboratory re-evaluates its air monitoring system and moves its monitoring units accordingly. Because more people are working in the area around Pajarito Cliffs, the Co+op Market and the Bio Lab, last week the Lab relocated several monitoring units to the nearby stretch of land adjacent to Los Alamos County Airport. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Hubble Space Telescope Peers Into Milky Way Galaxy

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Hubble peers into the most crowded place in the Milky Way. Courtesy photo

SCIENCE News:

Dr. John P. Holdren is director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at The White House. He also is the President’s Chief Science Advisor.

Dr. John P. Holdren

“From time to time, I like to send quick, ad-hoc notes to White House staff on a variety of topics―upcoming lunar eclipses, groundbreaking climate news, incredible photos from space. Things I’ve come across and found fascinating,” Holdren stated in an email to media. “Apparently, people really like them. Read More