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NNSA Awards $25 Million Grant to Improve Capabilities for Detecting Nuclear Proliferation

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Anne Harrington, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development today announced the award of a $25 million grant to a North Carolina State University-led consortium for research and development (R&D) in enabling capabilities for nonproliferation.

This sizeable, long-term investment will support the consortium at $5 million per year for five years. The grant is in response to a funding opportunity announcement Read More

LANL Physicist Honored With E.O. Lawrence Award

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LANL physicist John Sarrao is being honored with the 2013 Ernest O. Lawrence Award. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • John Sarrao’s research in plutonium, superconductivity, magnetism praised

Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist John Sarrao is being honored by the U.S. Department of Energy with the 2013 Ernest O. Lawrence Award in Condensed Matter and Materials Sciences.

“John Sarrao’s exciting advances in actinide studies exemplify the quality of research performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory,” said LANL Director Charlie McMillan. “Actinides, including plutonium, Read More

Santa Fe Business Incubator Nets Big Boost from Los Alamos Lab

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Modern flow cytometers were invented at Los Alamos National Laboratory and can be used to count and sort individual cells from a stream of liquid. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • BioScience Lab receives funding for cell-sorting machine

Los Alamos National Laboratory is providing funding to the Santa Fe Business Incubator BioScience Laboratory for the purchase of a commercial flow cytometer—a technology originally developed at Los Alamos and then later successfully commercialized by a Santa Fe company. The SFBI BioScience Lab is holding its open house today.

“The commercialization of flow Read More

Shiny Quantum Dots Brighten Future of Solar Cells

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Quantum dot LSC devices under ultraviolet illumination. Courtesy/LANL

This schematic shows how the quantum dots are embedded in the plastic matrix and capture sunlight to improve solar panel efficiency. Courtesy/LANL

NNSA News:

  • Photovoltaic solar-panel windows could be next for your house

A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collaboration with scientists from University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy. Their project demonstrates that superior light-emitting properties Read More

NNSA’s Nevada Field Office Transfers ACAVs to FBI

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NNSA’s Nevada Field Office recently transferred two Advanced Concept Armored Vehicles to the local FBI office in Nevada. Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

  • Transfer provides cost avoidance of $474,000

LAS VEGAS – The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nevada Field Office recently transferred two Advanced Concept Armored Vehicles (ACAVs) to The Department of Justice’s local FBI office in Nevada.

The transfer created $474,000 in savings to the government as the NFO security force no longer had a mission need for the specialized and expensive tactical vehicles. The interagency Read More

Luján to Highlight Importance of STEM Education

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Rep. Ben Ray Luján

SANTA FE – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District will highlight the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during a number of stops across northern New Mexico this week on a STEM Tour. 

Luján will meet with students, educators and other stakeholders to discuss the need to encourage students to pursue an education in STEM at a young age and the opportunities available in STEM fields. In an increasingly global economy, the high tech sector continues to grow and offer good jobs for those with the necessary skills Read More

BioScience Lab Opening Festivities Slated For Tuesday

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SFBI CEO Marie Longserre

SFBI News:

SANTA FE – The official grand opening ceremony for a new BioScience Lab at the Santa Fe Business Incubator (SFBI) takes place 9:45-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 15 at 3900 del Sol.

Program remarks will be followed by tours of the facility.

Speakers include:

  • The Honorable Tom Udall, U.S. Senator;
  • The Honorable Ben Ray Lujan, U.S. Congressman;
  • The Honorable Javier Gonzales, Mayor of Santa Fe;
  • Mr. Pedro Garza, EDA Regional Director U.S. Department of Commerce ; and
  • Mr. Jasper Welch, President of the National Business Incubation Association.

The BioScience Laboratory, Read More

LANL Historian to Speak at MOWW Meeting on Lab’s 1970-92 Cold War Period Involvement

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LANL Historian Alan Carr. File photo/ladailypost.com
 
MOWW News:
 
Historian Alan Carr of Los Alamos National Laboratory, will present a talk on LANL involvement in the 1970-92 period of the cold war as guest speaker for the April 15 dinner meeting of the Major General Franklin E. Miles Chapter 229 of The Military Order of the World Wars at the Los Alamos County Research Park.

The meeting will begin with a social period at 6 p.m., followed by a brief business meeting and dinner at 6:25 p.m. Carr’s presentation will begin at about 7:15 p.m. The Military Order of the World Wars dinner Read More

NanoDays Underway at Bradbury Science Museum

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Bradbury Science Museum educator Gordon McDonough leads a demonstration of liquid metal during NanoDays Wednesday evening at the museum. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
 
Aspiring scientists take part in a hands-on demonstration of surface tension Wednesday at the Bradbury Science Museum. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
 
Staff Report

The Bradbury Science Museum is celebrating NanoDays 2014 through April 13. At NanoDays, a range of exciting programs is underway that demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the nanoscale. Visitors

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Check Out New Issue of National Security Science Magazine

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

The new issue of National Security Science magazine is available on the Los Alamos National Laboratory website here.
 
National Security Science magazine showcases the breadth and depth of the Laboratory’s scientific and technical work to policy makers, the general public, academia, and scientific and technical experts.
 

In this issue:

  • Are we in the Second Nuclear Age? Is it really more dangerous than the Cold War?
  • Los Alamos nuclear-weapons designers speak frankly about the challenges they face in the Stockpile Stewardship Program: risk aversion,
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