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Los Alamos/Tribogenics Create Highly Portable Imaging System

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A hand-held calculator that was X-rayed by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers using the MiniMAX camera, a lightweight, portable X-ray machine that could revolution imaging of closed containers. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Application to be featured at IAEA conference on nuclear security in Vienna

LOS ALAMOS/MARINA DEL REY – Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tribogenics, the pioneer of innovative X-ray solutions, have partnered to create a unique, lightweight, compact, low-cost X-ray system that uses the MiniMAX (Miniature, Mobile, Agile, X-ray) camera to provide real-time Read More

US-Russia Partnership Reaches Key Milestone in Converting Russian Nuclear Weapons into US Nuclear Fuel

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HEU. Courtesy/NNSA
 
NNSA News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that it has monitored the elimination of more than 475 metric tons (MT) of Russian highly enriched uranium (HEU) under a landmark nuclear nonproliferation program, commonly known as Megatons to Megawatts.
 
With today’s 475 MT HEU milestone, deliveries under the U.S.-Russia HEU Purchase Agreement of low enriched uranium (LEU) produced from Russian HEU are 95 percent complete, and HEU roughly equivalent to 19,000 nuclear weapons has been permanently
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Former LANL Workers Plead Guilty to Atomic Energy Act Violations

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Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni. Courtesy photo

FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE—The Justice Department today announced that a scientist and his wife who both previously worked as contractors at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico have pleaded guilty to charges under the Atomic Energy Act and other charges relating to their communication of classified nuclear weapons data to a person they believed to be a Venezuelan government official.

The guilty pleas, which were entered today by Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 77, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, Read More

SFI Lecture: Learn Why Time is a One-Way Street

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Leonard Susskind

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute will present a Community Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 26 at the James A. Little Theater at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Leonard Susskind, director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics will speak on the topic, “Why is Time a One-Way Street?” Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

Anyone can see that the past is different from the future. Anyone, that is, but theoretical physicists, whose equations do not seem to distinguish the past from the future, Susskind writes in his abstract. How then do physicists Read More

Sara Del Valle Speaks on Epidemic Modeling

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Sara Del Valle

SFI News:

Sara Del Valle Of Los Alamos National Laboratory will present a seminar on “Understanding the Impact of Human Behavior and Heterogeneous Mixing Patterns on Social Networks and Epidemics” at 12:15 p.m. Friday, June 27 in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Social and mass media have recently played a crucial role in informing and influencing people’s perceptions about the spread of infectious diseases, Del Valle writes.

Community perception can influence human behavior, which can in turn impact the spread of an epidemic Read More

Talk on Fisheries and Global Warming at SFI Monday

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Daniel Pauly

SFI News:

Fisheries and Global Warming are the subjects of a seminar by Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia at the Santa Fe Institute.

The seminar will take place at 12:15 p.m. Monday, June 24 at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park in Santa Fe.

The multiple factors contributing to the crisis which besets global marine fisheries since the mid-1990s will be presented, along with key trends illustrating manifestations of that crisis.

Fisheries scientists, economists and serious policy-makers collectively know what is required to turn these trends around and to rebuild fish stocks Read More

Regional Coalition Heading to Nation’s Capital to Push for Additional LANL Cleanup Funding

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RCLC News:

SANTA FE – The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities is leading a 13-member delegation to Washington, D.C. to push for more cleanup funding for Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The group will meet with members of the New Mexico Congressional Delegation, as well as top officials at the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to press for the Coalition’s top priority — increased federal funding to continue environmental remediation across northern New Mexico.

“This type of work is incredibly important for the Regional Read More

LANL: Less is More – Novel Cellulose Structure Requires Fewer Enzymes to Process Biomass to Fuel

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An enzyme (shown in blue) pulls out individual cellulose chains (pink) from the pretreated nanofiber surface (green) and then breaks them apart into simple sugars. Photo by Shishir Chundawat/GLBRC
 
LANL News:
 
Improved methods for breaking down cellulose nanofibers are central to cost-effective biofuel production and the subject of new research from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC).
 
Scientists are investigating the unique properties of crystalline cellulose nanofibers to develop novel chemical pretreatments
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Van Damages Overhang Above LANL’s Community Programs Office

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A LANS, LLC van scraped the overhang above the entrance to Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Community Programs Office at 15th Street and Central Avenue this morning. Police were called to the scene to sort out the situation. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Two areas on the overhang above the entrance to LANL’s Community Programs Office were damaged this morning at 15th Street and Central Avenue. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com Read More

LANL’s Physical Security Chief Retires

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By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

Physical Security Division Leader John (Jack) E. Killeen of Los Alamos National Laboratory retires Friday, June 21.

His career in security police forces has taken him on assignments across the globe. Killeen has planned his retirement to be just as hard driving. He’ll take a brief break before embarking on a two month mountain bike ride through the Rocky Mountains from Banff, Canada to the Mexican border.

In October, Killeen will launch a consulting firm, JEK Enterprises, LLC, through which he will apply his skills in consultation and program development

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