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MOWW Presents Alan B. Carr At Meeting May 19

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MOWW News:
 
At this month’s meeting of the Military Order of the World Wars, the guest speaker is Alan B. Carr―His thesis, ”The Long Road to Kursk: The Development, Abandonment and Relearning of Soviet Military Strategy,” at 7:15 p.m., May 19 at the Hot Rocks Java Cafe in the Los Alamos Research Park the 2nd floor conference room.
 
The Los Alamos Research Park building is located west of the South Mesa Fire Station. Parking is available east to the fire station (accessible from southbound land of the Los Alamos Canyon Bridge) or east of the Research
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Quantum Dot Startup Takes Another Quantum Leap

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Hunter McDaniel, president and founder of UbiQD, LLC. Courtesy photo
 
Quantum dots can take any light and turn it into any color. Courtesy photo
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

If it were possible to win a trifecta in the high-stakes/high-gain world of start-up technology, a two-year-old Los Alamos company with a geeky name might have just pulled one off.

Hunter McDaniel, president and founder of a local venture called UbiQD, LLC, announced Monday that his company had signed two key intellectual property licensing agreements, one with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Read More

Letter To The Editor: Author Chuck Montaño Comments On His Book ‘Los Alamos: A Whistleblower’s Diary’

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By Chuck Montaño
Santa Fe

I thank the Los Alamos Daily Post for its recent review of my book. The book is titled Los Alamos: A Whistleblower’s Diary, and is a “70th Anniversary Reflection” focusing on
significant issues and events other books about Los Alamos tend to overlook.

The centerpiece of my book is the obstruction of justice that happened in 2003, when two seasoned criminal investigators—Glenn Walp and Steve Doran—were terminated suddenly
for the purpose of derailing their ongoing investigation of a major procurement fraud occurring in Los Alamos at the time.

LANL and University of Read More

Bill Introduced For Tech-Transfer Maturation Program

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. and Michael Bennet, D-Colo. introduced legislation to launch a new National Laboratory Technology Maturation Program (NLTMP) at DOE to facilitate successful commercialization of laboratory-developed technologies and boost regional, technology-driven economic impacts.

The bill, S.1259, the National Laboratory Technology Maturation Act, will be considered June 4 during a hearing in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Under the National Laboratory Technology Maturation Program, Read More

Work Continues On Historic Hans Bethe House

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A gardener works on the grounds of the Hans Bethe House Wednesday at 1350 Bathtub Row in preparation for new landscaping. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

By Friday the grounds of the Hans Bethe House on Bathtub Row are cleared, leveled and ready for landscaping. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Work contiues on the historic home at 1350 Bathtub Row, including exterior clean up and landscaping. 

Manhattan Project artifacts collectors Clay and Dorothy Perkins turned over the deed of the home to the Los Alamos Historical Society in December. Historical Society Read More

Dr. Nina Lanza: ‘Exploring Mars With The Curiosity Rover’

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Mars Curiosity Rover. Courtesy photo
 

HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:

Dr. Nina Lanza will present a Los Alamos Historical Society Lecture, “Exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover,” following the Society’s annual meeting.

The meeting is 6:30 p.m. and the lecture is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 12 in Fuller Lodge. Lanza is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is living her dream of working on a spaceship with lasers on Mars as part of the ChemCam instrument team on the Curiosity Rover.

Lanza is broadly interested in understanding the history of water on the Martian surface at a variety Read More

The Making Of A Whistleblower: Review Of Chuck Montaño’s Los Alamos: Secret Colony, Hidden Truths

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Former LANL auditor Chuck Montaño spoke about his new memoir, Los Alamos: Secret Colony, Hidden Truths, during a recent visit to the Los Alamos Daily Post newspaper headquarters. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Review by ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” So begins the novel “The Trial,” by Franz Kafka, published in 1925.

Complaint and retaliation

There’s a new book just out about someone who resembles Kafka’s beleaguered protagonist Josef K in The Trial Read More

LANL Guards Vote ‘No Confidence’ In Security Firm’s Ability To Manage Contract With Lab

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IGUA News:

International Guards Union of America Local 69, which represents the more than 200 highly trained Northern New Mexico workers who make up the protective force at Los Alamos National Laboratory, announced today that its members had unanimously voted “no confidence” in SOC-LA’s ability to manage its security contract with the lab after the union had to walk away from labor negotiations Wednesday saying SOC-LA is acting in bad faith.

“This is not the direction we want to be heading,” said Chris Mandril, IGUA Local 69 Business Agent. “We want to work collaboratively with SOC-LA to come Read More

NMED Approves Transuranic Waste Storage Extension

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WIPP News:

On May 1, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) approved a request from the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) and Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) for an extension of storage in the Waste Handling Building at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant until June 30, 2016.

Waste placement operations at the WIPP site have been suspended since the February 2014 fire and radiological events. Waste containers that were on the surface at the time of the events have been safely stored in the on-site Waste Handling Building.

The WIPP Hazardous Waste Facility Permit limits storage in the Waste Handling Read More