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Killing Killer Asteroids With Nuclear Explosives

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PrintScreen/LANL YouTube Channel

LANL News:

We’ve all see Armageddon, but just how real is the threat to humanity from asteroids or other near-Earth objects (NEOs)? According to scientists, it’s very real.

So real, in fact, that the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space recently created a special action team dedicated to gathering and analyzing data on NEOs and the danger they pose to our p lanet.

Any NEO greater than a half-mile in diameter can become a deadly threat, and the likelihood is very high that a killer asteroid will eventually find itself on a collision course Read More

LANL: Public Comment Invited for Hazardous Waste Facility Permit Community Relations Plan

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LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Hazardous Waste Facility Permit Community Relations Plan is available year-round for comments.

LANL reviews the Hazardous Waste Community Relations Plan annually in compliance with its Hazardous Waste Facility Permit (EPA ID No. NM0890010515).

The website is available year round and LANL revises the plan, if needed, in August to include necessary changes and comments received during the year. LANL welcomes public comment, which may be provided online via the Plan Comments Form. 

The updated Hazardous Waste Facility Read More

Community and Historical Society Discuss Third Episode of WGN’s Manhattan

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Swimming at the cistern at Anchor Ranch ca. 1945: GIs Charles Graf and Burt Lutz with Stella and Josephine (last names unknown). Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archives

LAHS News:

As the drama continues in WGN’s new series, Manhattan, there was another great turnout for the Los Alamos Historical Society’s viewing of the third episode. 

Manhattan presents a fictionalized look at life in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Below are some of the common questions that we heard that night and on social media. Every week the Society will be updating a bulletin board in the Museum Read More

DOE Secretary Addresses Employees At WIPP

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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz addresses employees Tuesday at WIPP. Also on hand were DOE Deputy Under Secretary David M. Klaus for Management and Performance, second from left, and U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce. Courtesy/WIPP

WIPP News:

This week, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited Carlsbad to tour the site and see firsthand the recovery efforts underway at the WIPP facility. In addition to meeting with local officials, Moniz spoke to area residents about WIPP recovery efforts at a town hall meeting, which also included Sen. Tom Udall, Sen. Martin Read More

LANL Director Makes Surprise Appearance At LAPS All Hands Breakfast

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LANL Director Charlie McMillan thanks Los Alamos Public School employees for making Los Alamos a better place to live and work. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Superintendent Gene Schmidt welcomes his staff back to school for the 2014-15 Academic Year. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos School employees were welcomed back by Superintendent Gene Schmidt and his administrative staff and also by surprise guest Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan at this morning’s all-hands Read More

SFI: Ranjit Kumble Presents Dynamics of Economic and Sociological Systems

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Ranjit Kumble

SFI News:

Ranjit Kumble (Business Analytics and Insights, Pfizer Inc.; SFI Business  Network Fellow) will present a seminar 12:15 p.m., Aug. 13 in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road.

Abstract:  Dynamics of economic and sociological systems are to a very large degree shaped by recurrent decision-making behaviors of individuals within them.  

The ability to anticipate the time-evolution of such systems requires an understanding of the underlying generative mechanism for repeated decision outcomes. Studies Read More

Los Alamos Scientist Wins American Chemical Society Award

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Jaqueline Kiplinger

LANL News:

  • Jaqueline Kiplinger to receive F. Albert Cotton Award

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Jaqueline L. Kiplinger has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, sponsored by the F. Albert Cotton Endowment Fund.

“To be nominated and selected for the Cotton Award by my American Chemical Society colleagues is such an extraordinary honor,” Kiplinger said. “I have found so much joy in actinide chemistry research, both in advancing fundamental knowledge for the nation, and in training future generations Read More

Brown Bag Lecture at Bradbury Science Museum Examines Laboratory’s Wildlife Monitoring Aug. 13

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Bradbury Science Museum. Courtesy/BSM

LANL News:

Maria Musgrave, Emily Phillips and Audrey Smith, all of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Environmental Stewardship group (ENV-ES), will discuss the important role wildlife monitoring plays in maintaining a healthy and well-rounded ecosystem.

The talk is noon to 1 p.m., Aug. 13 at the Bradbury Science Museum in downtown Los Alamos.

The Avian Nestbox Network (ANN) and the Wetland Wildlife Camera Project both evaluate the effects of Laboratory operations and other possible environmental stressors on wildlife. Wetlands support Read More

LANL Hosts Annual Employee Picnic at Overlook Park

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LANL Director Charlie McMillan introduces 2013 Rodeo Queen Rachel Larson and welcomes employees and their familes to today’s annual picnic at Overlook Park where everyone was treated to a day of games including a geek competition and a climbing wall, food, music and a car show. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

LANL Community Programs Office Director Kurt Steinhaus calls out the names of several prize winners. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

LANL’s Communications/Government Affairs Director Lisa Rosendorf, right, and Debbi Wersonick of LANL’s Community Read More

Udall, Energy Secretary Discuss Technology Transfer and Economic Development Aug. 11

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U.S. SENATE News:

ALBUQUERQUE – Monday, Aug. 11, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall and U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will visit HT Micro in Albuquerque, a business that exemplifies the successful transfer of technology from New Mexico’s national labs into the marketplace.
 
HT Micro is a leading manufacturer of ultra miniature switches, sensors and precision components. Udall and Moniz will tour the company’s facility, and meet with its founder, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Todd Christenson to discuss the importance of technology transfer and economic
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