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DOE Secretary Hosts Schlesinger Medal Ceremony And Energy Security Symposium Wednesday

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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will kick off Energy Action Month Wednesday, Oct. 1 and mark the 37th anniversary of the Department’s formal opening by hosting the first Schlesinger Medal Ceremony and Symposium on Energy Security.

The Secretary will make keynote remarks and present a new medal to an individual whose contributions have advanced our understanding of threats, opportunities, and policy choices impacting the energy security interests of the United States. Following the medal ceremony, two distinguished panels will Read More

DOE Issues Statement On LANL Cleanup Work Transition

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DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

Today, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz directed the Office of Environmental Management (EM) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop a plan for the transition of legacy environmental cleanup work at the Department’s Los Alamos site from NNSA to EM.

DOE issued the following statement this morning:

“The safe and efficient cleanup of the Los Alamos Site in New Mexico is a high priority for the Department of Energy. The Secretary of Energy has directed the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Office Read More

SFI Colloquium: ‘A Population Biological View of Immunological Memory and Vaccination’

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Rustom Antia

SFI News:

Rustom Antia of Emory University will present a colloquium, “A Population Biological View of Immunological Memory and Vaccination,” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30 in the Noyce Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute (1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe).

The event is free and open to the public. The SFI host is Ben Althouse.

Abstract: The ability to remember previous encounters with pathogens and mount a more rapid response on subsequent exposure to the same or a related pathogen is a central features of the adaptive immune system of vertebrate hosts. I will give an overview Read More

NNSA Completes Critical Radar Arming And Fuzing Test

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) recently completed an important test for the W88 ALT 370, an alteration to replace the Arming, Fuzing and Firing assembly of the W88-0/Mk 5, a warhead in its third decade of life.

The Critical Radar Arming and Fuzing Test (CRAFT), flown this summer, was designed to test the new joint Air Force and Navy radar in the W88 ALT 370. The CRAFT was the first of several flight tests planned to demonstrate the functional performance of the upgraded weapon system in ballistic missile flight environments. Radar performance Read More

LANL: Climate, Earth System Project Draws On Science Powerhouses

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Computer modeling provides policymakers with essential information on such data as global sea surface temperatures related to specific currents. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Los Alamos teams with climate and high-performance computing groups for advanced climate change understanding

With President Obama announcing climate-support initiatives this week at the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit, the US Department of Energy national laboratories are teaming with academia and the private sector to develop the most advanced climate and Earth system computer model yet created.

For Los Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society Discusses Manhattan Episode 9

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Maria and Marcos Gomez visiting the site of their homestead on Two-Mile Mesa. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archives

LAHS News:

With only four episodes to go, there was another great turnout for the Los Alamos Historical Society’s viewing of the ninth episode of WGN’s new series, Manhattan, a fictionalized look at life in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. A special thanks to the members of the Los Alamos High School Class of ’64 who came to watch the show with us Sunday night. It was great to have you with us! Every week the Society updates a bulletin board in the Museum to continue Read More

LANL: World Record Magnetic Field 100T

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March 22, 2012, LANL scientists produce the world’s first 100 Tesla non-destructive magnetic field. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

At approximately 3:30 p.m. March 22, 2012, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory campus of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory successfully produced the world’s first 100 Tesla non-destructive magnetic field.

The achievement was decades in the making, involving a diverse team of scientists and engineers.

The ability to create pulses of extremely high magnetic fields nondestructively provides researchers with an unprecedented Read More

WIPP Facilities Mostly Unscathed As SENM Deals With Hurricane Odile

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WIPP News:

Hurricane Odile left its mark on Southeastern New Mexico, but the WIPP facility came away mostly unscathed with two brief partial power outages that delayed entries into the underground facility last week.

Over the past 10 days, areas of Carlsbad and Eddy County received about 15 inches of rain that wreaked havoc on infrastructure and left dozens of people stranded. Managers with the WIPP Emergency Management Department and several members of the Joint Information Center provided around the clock support to the Eddy County Emergency Operations Center over the weekend and on Monday, Read More

LANS Board of Governors Approves $3 Million For Education, Economic Development, Charitable Giving In Northern New Mexico

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LANL Director Charlie McMillan

The Los Alamos National Security, LLC Board of Governors has approved $3 million in funding for the company’s plan to support education, economic development and charitable giving in Northern New Mexico.

“This plan demonstrates our bond with the community and its people and businesses that support our national security mission,” Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan said. “It sustains the mutually beneficial programs that make Los Alamos one of the best places to live and work.”

Los Alamos National Security, LLC since 2006 has been the managing and operating Read More

LANL Researchers Uncover New Properties In Nanocomposite Oxide Ceramics For Reactor Fuel, Fast-Ion Conductors

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Schematic depicting distinct dislocation networks for SrO- and TiO2-terminated SrTiO3/MgO interface. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Misfit dislocations are key to transport properties across material interfaces

Nanocomposite oxide ceramics have potential uses as ferroelectrics, fast ion conductors, and nuclear fuels and for storing nuclear waste, generating a great deal of scientific interest on the structure, properties, and applications of these blended materials.

“The interfaces separating the different crystalline regions determine the transport, electrical, and radiation Read More