Workers brought out their tall ladder Friday to trim trees inside the fence at historic Bethe House at 1350 Bathtub Row. Physicist and history buff Clay Perkins and his wife Dorothy purchased the home last October and are paying for renovations expected to cost around $100,000. The home will house the Harold Agnew Cold War Museum. The couple is scheduled to donate the property to the Los Alamos Historical Society in September. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
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LAMC Emergency Room Not Currently Covered By BCBSNM but Plans are in the Works for July
Los Alamos Medical Center. File photo
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
The Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) Emergency Room is staffed with a contractor not currently in the Blue Cross Blue Shield network.
A Los Alamos National Laboratory employee covered by the Lab’s Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico (BCBSNM) PPO plan, said that he assumed his health coverage would include local Emergency Room services. However, after a recent visit to the LAMC Emergency Room, which ended at the University of New Mexico Hospital’s (UNMH) Emergency Room, he reviewed his online claims activity.
“I Read More
Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrade Project Completed $1 Million Under Budget
LANL Acting Deputy Director Paul Henry
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrade Project (NMSSUP) was recently completed approximately $1 million under its original budget of $245 million.
NMSSUP upgrades security at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Technical Area-55, a facility that houses high-security plutonium assets and operations.
NNSA Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Security Michael Lempke
“The security of our nation’s nuclear material is our most important Read More
NIST Launches New U.S. Time Standard: NIST-F2 Atomic Clock
NIST physicists Steve Jefferts, foreground, and Tom Heavner with the NIST-F2 ‘cesium fountain’ atomic clock, a new civilian time standard for the United States. Courtesy/NIST
NIST News:
BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time and frequency standard, along with the current NIST-F1 standard.
NIST-F2 would neither gain nor lose one second in about 300 million years, making it about three times as accurate Read More
NanoDays at the Bradbury Science Museum Begin April 7
Bradbury Science Museum celebrates NanoDays beginning April 7. Courtesy/BSM
BRADBURY News:
The tiny world of nanoscale science is a big subject at the Bradbury Science Museum as we celebrate NanoDays 2014, April 7-13.
At NanoDays, a range of exciting programs will demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the nanoscale, examine tools used by nanoscientists, showcase nano materials with spectacular promise, and invite discussions of technology. By combining hands-on activities with presentations on current research, this nationwide event features new and unique Read More
DOE Announces First Quadrennial Energy Review Public Meeting
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
DOE News:
- Topics and Locations for First Six Meetings Also Announced
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy released information on the first six public meetings to collect stakeholder input into the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER).
As the Secretariat for the QER Task Force, DOE will hold a series of meetings to discuss and receive comments on issues related to the development of a comprehensive strategy for the infrastructure needed to transport, transmit and deliver energy to consumers.
The first of these meetings is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Read More
NNSA Receives Secretary’s Award for Project Management Excellence
RLUOB. Courtesy/NNSA
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was recently presented with the Secretary’s Award for Project Management Excellence for delivering the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building Replacement (CMRR) Radiological Laboratory/Utility/Office Building (RLUOB) Equipment Installation (REI) Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory $2 million under budget and ahead of schedule.
At the same event, Everett Trollinger, the CMRR/REI Federal Project Director (FPD), also was honored as the Department’s Federal Read More
LANL Resumes Transuranic Waste Shipments
Los Alamos sent the first shipment to Waste Control Specialists April 1. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Shipments Keep Lab on Track to Complete 3706 Campaign on Schedule
Los Alamos National Laboratory resumed shipments of transuranic waste Tuesday from Technical Area 54 Area G.
The shipments are part of an accelerated shipping campaign to remove 3,706 cubic meters of transuranic waste stored aboveground at Area G by June 30, 2014. Nearly 3,200 cubic meters of the waste have already been removed since the 3706 campaign began in January 2012.
The waste was received at Waste Control Specialists (WCS) Read More
SFI Seminar: Denaturation of Circular DNA
SFI News:
Amir BarWeizmann Institute
SFI Seminar – Denaturation of Circular DNA
Wednesday, April 2 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe.
Abstract: DNA denaturation is the process by which the two strands of a DNA molecule separate. This process is essential both for biological processes such as gene transcription and for artificial processes such as PCR. A prototypical model for studying the denaturation of DNA upon heating is the Poland-Scheraga (PS) model, which exhibits quite a unique kind of phase transition.
In this talk I will give a brief
Seats Still Available For Saturday’s Tour of Trinity Site With Two Eyewitnesses
Trinity test photographer Jack Aeby. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society
HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
Because of high demand, a second bus has been secured for Saturday’s Trinity Site Tour and some seats remain available. There will be stops in Pojoaque, Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
Reservations close Wednesday. The cost is $100 for members and $150 for non-members.
On July 16, 1945, the first man-made nuclear explosion detonated in the pre-dawn darkness in the high desert ranchland about 30 miles southeast of Socorro.
It has been 69 years, but some hale and hearty guys who participated Read More