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Project Reach Completes Photographic Work In Room 7, Panel 7

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Project Reach team members work to obtain video of emplaced waste located in Panel 7, Room 7 where the radiological event occurred. Courtesy/WIPP

WIPP News:

Photographic work in support of the Accident Investigation Board (AIB) has been completed in Room 7 Panel 7, the location of the Feb. 14, 2014, radiological event at WIPP.

Using Project Reach, a specially designed and manufactured 90-foot composite boom equipped with high resolution photographic equipment, WIPP employees completed video mapping of all waste stacks and packages in Room 7. Waste in the WIPP underground facility is stacked Read More

LANL: Scientists Call For Antibody ‘Bar Code’ System To Follow Human Genome Project

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Antibody. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

More than 100 researchers from around the world have collaborated to craft a request that could fundamentally alter how the antibodies used in research are identified, a project potentially on the scale of the now-completed Human Genome Project.

“We propose that antibodies be defined by their sequences, just as genes are,” said Andrew Bradbury, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, “and they should be made recombinantly in cell lines.”

Referring to antibodies according to the sequences encoding their various subunits, their concentrations Read More

UbiQD Start-Up Company Launches In Los Alamos

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Dr. Hunter McDaniel in his lab space at the New Mexico Consortium’s laboratory in Los Alamos. Courtesy/NMC

NMC News:

Dr. Hunter McDaniel has launched UbiQD, LLC, a quantum dot manufacturing business located in the New Mexico Consortium’s (NMC) Los Alamos laboratory.

“The NMC is exploring models for facilitating small technology startups that benefit from New Mexico relationships and resources,” NMC Executive Director Katharine Chartrand said. “These are the relationships that have the greatest potential New Mexico impact.” 

UbiQD, LLC produces quantum dots; semiconductor Read More

Laboratory, LANS Sponsor Area Science Competitions

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LANL News:

Investing in Northern New Mexico students’ success

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Security, LLC are sponsoring and/or working closely with corporate partners and other national labs to promote science education in Northern New Mexico.

Education outreach is one of the pillars of the LANS Community Commitment plan, which the Community Programs Office manages for LANS.

A number of science competitions and events are designed to engage Northern New Mexico students in critical thinking, skills-building, research and teamwork, said Janelle Vigil-Maestas

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Energy Department Announces Five Year Funding Renewal For First Energy Innovation Hub

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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

  • Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors to Receive up to $121.5 Million

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In support of the President’s call during his State of the Union Address to advance an all-of-the-above energy strategy, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Friday it would renew funding, subject to congressional appropriations, for the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), an Energy Innovation Hub established in 2010 to develop advanced computing capabilities that serve as a virtual version Read More

Watch Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni Of Los Alamos On Video Offering Nuclear Weapons To Venezuela

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Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni meeting with ‘Jimenez’ in a hotel room. Screen shot/FBI video

In FBI undercover video and audio recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni of Los Alamos explains to undercover agent Jimenez that he had a “top of the top” clearance and that he held a security clearance from the Department of Defense and from the Department of Energy.

Mascheroni, 79, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, was recently sentenced to 60 months in prison for Atomic Energy Act and other violations relating to his communication of classified nuclear Read More

DOE Announces Technology To Market Funding

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DOE News:

Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative aims to boost American competitiveness

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The $45 million Technology to Market funding opportunity is part of the Department’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative, aimed at boosting American competitiveness and supporting a strong domestic, clean energy manufacturing sector.

This funding opportunity combines three historically separate SunShot Initiative funding programs—Incubator, Solar Manufacturing Technology, and Scaling Up Nascent PV at Home— into one that will support projects Read More

UPDATE: Schools, LANL CLOSED Today

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News Alert:

UPDATE: All Los Alamos and White Rock schools are closed and all after school activities and events are canceled due to weather conditions.

UPDATE: Los Alamos National Laboratory also is closed today – employees are advised to NOT report for work.

UPDATE: Following a tour of street conditions around the community – Los Alamos County government is now on a two hour snow delay with start time at 10 a.m. for all County offices.

Nation Weather Service Has Issued A Winter Storm Warning

URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 447 Read More

Los Alamos Develops New Technique For Growing High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

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Scientists Aditya Mohite, left, and Wanyi Nie are perfecting a crystal production technique to improve perovskite crystal production for solar cells at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Researchers’ crystal-production insights resolve manufacturing difficulty

This week in the journal Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers reveal a new solution-based hot-casting technique that allows growth of highly efficient and reproducible solar cells from large-area perovskite crystals.

“These perovskite crystals offer promising routes for developing Read More