United Way Of Northern New Mexico (UWNNM) Board of Directors and staff gathered Saturday for their 2025 Board Retreat at the Rio Arriba County Offices in Española. Pictured from front left, Board Member Christine ‘Teeny’ Bustos – Rio Arriba County Economic Development Director, Board Vice President Mike Holtzclaw – UNM-LA Chancellor, Executive Director Cindy Padilla, Board Secretary Sandy Jones – Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce Director, UWNNM Director of Corporate & Community Engagement Donna Milanovich, Emeritus Board Member Liddie Martinez, Board Member Read More
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Public Hearings Scheduled For LANL Draft Sitewide Environment Impact Statement
NNSA News:
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is holding four public hearings to receive comments on the Los Alamos National Laboratory Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS).
The LANL Draft SWEIS analyzes the potential environmental impacts associated with continuing LANL operations and foreseeable new and/or modified operations and facilities for approximately the next 15 years.
The meetings Feb. 11 will include an option for virtual (internet-based) participation (with telephone access). The schedule is as follows: Read More
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Used To Tune Particle Accelerators
LANL research and development engineer Alexander Scheinker and the project’s lead – shown here at the HiRES compact accelerator for ultrafast electron diffraction at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for which AI tools are being developed. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Training data means real-time, effective tuning to ensure accelerator precision
Accelerators — machines that speed up particles such as protons — are useful in nuclear and high-energy physics as well as materials science, dynamic imaging and even isotope production for cancer therapy. A Los Alamos National Laboratory-led Read More
Northern New Mexico Students Awarded N3B Scholarships
NNMC President Hector Balderas, Jaide Romero and Atalia Archuleta. Courtesy/NNMC
NNMC News:
ESPAÑOLA — Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, LLC (N3B) has announced the recipients of its 2025 Danny Nichols and Dennis Huddleston Memorial Scholarship. Two Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) students, Atalia Archuleta and Jaide Romero, are among the recipients, along with Paul Alcazar, who is pursuing a degree in chemistry from University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA).
The Danny Nichols and Dennis Huddleston Memorial Scholarship is sponsored by N3B each year to honor the lives of longtime Read More
U.S. Senators Luján, Hawley, Heinrich, Schmitt, Reintroduce RECA To Give Nuclear Radiation Victims Compensation
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján:
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), along with Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) reintroduced the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act to compensate Americans exposed to radiation by government nuclear programs.
Despite the Senate passing this bill, the House of Representatives failed to pass the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) reauthorization before its expiration deadline in the 118th Congress.
“In New Mexico Read More
Community Invited To Celebrate Engineers Week With Public Lecture By Pramod Khargonekar Of UC Irvine Feb. 19
Pramod Khargonekar
The community is invited to celebrate Engineers Week with a public lecture by Pramod Khargonekar of the University of California, Irvine, 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19 at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos.
Khargonekar, the vice chancellor for research and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will present “Future of Work and Workers in the AI Era”. As automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies continue their remarkably rapid development, it is expected that many facets of work and lives of workers will be impacted. In this Read More
Nuclear Weapons Council Commemorates Pit Production Milestone At Los Alamos National Laboratory
Marv Adams, deputy administrator for Defense Programs for the National Nuclear Security Administration, speaks to Laboratory employees as part of the Nuclear Weapons Council’s visit in November to Los Alamos to celebrate the first production unit of the plutonium pit for the W87-1. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
In November 2024, the Nuclear Weapons Council, staff and affiliates visited Los Alamos National Laboratory to mark the first production unit of a W87-1 plutonium pit, an achievement for the United States that hasn’t been accomplished since the 1980s.
The daylong visit included a tour Read More
Los Alamos Retiree Group Expresses Concern About Health Care Worker Shortage Across New Mexico
LRG News:
The Laboratory Retiree Group (https://lalrg.org) is a non-profit corporation which seeks to maintain communications with and to serve the needs and interests of the many retirees from LANL.
LRG is a member of the Council of University of California Retiree Associations (CUCRA), a consortium of the Retiree Associations of nine University of California campuses and the three UC-managed National Laboratories and the Office of the President/Regents.
In a Board of Directors meeting Wednesday, Jan. 15, the board unanimously approved the following motion:
“The Los Alamos Retiree Read More
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Tom Mason To Answer Community Questions Tuesday Jan. 21 Via Zoom
LANL Director Thom Mason
LANL News:
Community members across New Mexico are invited to tune in for Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Thom Mason’s first virtual Town Hall of 2025, 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 on Zoom.
No advance registration is required.
Director Mason will preview the year ahead. He will be joined by a special guest, Science, Technology and Engineering Executive Officer Angela Mielke, who will discuss how the Lab’s researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence to drive breakthroughs in science and technology. The two will also field questions from the public.
To Read More
NNSA Publishes Draft Sitewide Environmental Impact Statement For Los Alamos National Laboratory
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has published its Draft Sitewide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) assessing current and future impacts of the Lab’s operations.
The SWEIS will be available for public review and comment beginning, Jan. 10, 2025, for 60 days.
The SWEIS analyzes the potential environmental impacts of LANL operations for approximately the next 15 years.
The document is available Read More