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Udall-Sponsored NM Priorities in Major Defense Bill

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U.S. SENATE News:

  • Udall fought for measures in NDAA to keep B61 project on track; bolster funding for cleanup; boost construction at Kirtland, Holloman, Cannon; strengthen WSMR

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall last night joined the Senate in overwhelmingly approving a major defense bill by a vote of 84-15. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes provisions that will support jobs and strengthen New Mexico’s military bases, small businesses and federal defense installations, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the

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Science Cinema: Saturday Mornings at the Bradbury

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BRADBURY News:

The Bradbury Science Museum is proud to announce the launch of a new community video series.  Beginning in 2014, every Saturday at 10:30 a.m., a different science education film will be shown in the auditorium.  

The first showing will be Saturday, Jan. 4 featuring Bill Nye the Science Guy in Amphibians. In this 30-minute video, Bill explains how amphibians can live both on land and in water and demystifies the process of metamorphosis. This film is specifically geared towards children between elementary to middle school ages. 

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LANL Employees Purchase Nearly 1,000 Gifts for Children/Seniors

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The Los Alamos National Laboratory Community Programs Office sponsors the holiday drive and all other giving initiatives. This year, Laboratory employees and subcontract personnel purchased nearly 1,000 gifts for Northern New Mexico children and seniors for distribution through 18 partner agencies as part of the Holiday Drive. Among the gifts are bicycles. Shown in the photo with approximately 45 new bicycles are from left, Mike Martinez, Katherine Hudspeth, Ed Vigil and Melissa Montoya of the Community Programs Office. Courtesy/LANL Read More

Los Alamos Hydrocarbon Use Essentially Unchanged

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Annual Primary Energy Use in Los Alamos County, exclusive of LANL, from the report ‘Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Los Alamos County: 2000-2012’ by Robert Gibson. Image by Robert Gibson

Annual Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Los Alamos County, exclusive of LANL, from combustion of hydrocarbon fuels. Emissions from solid waste add the equivalent of another 20,000 tons per year. Image by Robert Gibson

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
Energy use and resulting carbon dioxide emissions in Los Alamos have remained essentially unchanged in the past dozen years,
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‘News from Mars’ Display Installed in Downtown Los Alamos

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CB FOX co-owner Dave Fox was passing by and stopped to check out the newly installed ‘News from Mars’ display in Central Park Square next to Fusion Multisport in downtown Los Alamos. The images are best viewed in the evening until a reduced glare protective plexiglass is installed. Owner / Managing Member Philip Kunsberg of Central Park Square LLC is providing the display for community members and visitors and said a plaque is being prepared for placement below the display with text as follows: These images are provided by the ‘ChemCam’ team. This team, led by Los Alamos Read More

New NIST Tests Explore Safety of Nanotubes in Modern Plastics Over Time

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Exposed to intense ultraviolet light and high temperatures, samples of epoxy containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes deteriorated. Exposure tended to destroy the epoxy, but on the surface remained a network of nanotubes, which NIST tests indicated were less damaged than the epoxy over time, ranging from approximately 6 months (A) to 18 months (B) to 4 years (C) in subtropical conditions. Courtesy/NIST

NIST News:

Who cares about old plastic? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) do, so that you won’t have to years down the road, when today’s plastic concoctions Read More

Nearly $2 Million Pledged During LANL’s 2014 Employee Giving Campaign

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LANL News:

  • “I Give Because…” theme focuses on unique role Lab plays in local communities

Nearly $2 million has been pledged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employees to United Way and other eligible nonprofit programs during the Laboratory’s 2014 Employee Giving Campaign.

Los Alamos National Security, LLC, which manages and operates the Laboratory for the National Nuclear Security Administration, plans to prorate its $1 million match among the selected nonprofit organizations, bringing the total donation to nearly $3 million.

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New Ladder Truck Delivered to LAFD

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A brand new ladder truck was delivered this morning to the Los Alamos Fire Department at Fire Station 3 in White Rock. This is the first major fire apparatus to be replaced in the department’s DOE/LAFD vehicle replacement plan. DOE paid for the truck, which cost $858,566 and has a 105-foot ladder and 1,500 gallon per minute pump, holds 300 gallons of water, and is used in high rise and technical fires and to enable crews to reach rooftops to open areas for ventilation. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com  

From left, Los Alamos Deputy Fire Chief Justin Grider, Chief Read More

Bradbury Brown Bag Lecture Focuses on ‘The Great Comet of 1264’

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Comet West. Courtesy/NASA

BSM News:

Bruce Masse, a guest scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory will talk about “The Great Comet of 1264” in the next Brown Bag Lecture noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18 at the Bradbury Science Museum. Admission to the lunch hour talk—and all Bradbury Science Museum events—is free and attendees are welcome to bring their lunch.

More than 600 comets were documented before the invention of the telescope in 1608. They were identified by size, shape and duration. Masse said the Great Comet of 1264 is particularly remarkable. Records from Asia, the Middle East and Read More

Community Celebrates Bradbury Science Museum’s 50th Anniversary

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Bradbury Science Museum Director Linda Deck, left, welcomes Los Alamos County Councilor Kristin Henderson at the museum’s 50th Anniversary Party Wednesday evening. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Marge Cole Agnew and her husband Lew Agnew, center, at the Bradbury Science Museum’s 50th Anniversary celebration Wednesday evening in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Community members celebrating the museum’s 50th birthday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

These men took the challenge. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More