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LANS Provides Over $180,000 to Nonprofits

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Los Alamos National Laboratory employees Cynthia Fuentes, left, and Brian Foley help fill sandbags at Santa Clara Pueblo in 2011. They are assisted by Brenden Baca, 9. Courtesy photo

LANL News:

  • Employees and retirees perform 270,000 volunteer hours

Nonprofit organizations will receive more than $180,000 from Los Alamos National Security (LANS), LLC during a recognition event beginning at 9:30 a.m. June 12, at Fuller Lodge in downtown Los Alamos.

LANS contributions are determined by the number of volunteer hours logged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and retirees through Read More

Bradbury Kicks Off ‘Downtown Friday Night’

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Staff Report

Find out what Los Alamos has to offer from 5-8 p.m. at the Bradbury Science Museum, just prior to the Friday Los Alamos Summer Concert in downtown Los Alamos.

The community collaboration was designed to introduce an opportunity to, “Discover Los Alamos,” especially for new families to Los Alamos, LANL post-doctoral fellows and summer students.

The hands-on event will be a hub of community resources, opportunities, networking and activities.

Those who work with the clubs, organizations and businesses involved in the project will be on hand to answer questions, provide literature Read More

NNSA’s Mike Duvall Speaks to Los Alamos Rotarians

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Mike Duvall, assistant manager for Safeguards and Security at NNSA’s Los Alamos Field Office was the featured speaker at the May 28 Rotary Club meeting at the Dixie Girl Restaurant. Duval presented a program on Terrorism and Security: International, Homeland, and Cyber. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report:

Former New Mexico Homeland Security and Emergency Management Cabinet Secretary Mike Duvall presented a program on Terrorism and Security: International, Homeland, and Cyber during a May 28 meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos.

Duvall, left the position

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Yang: From Branding To Identity

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From Branding To Identity
By ELENA YANG

I appreciate people taking the time to give me feedback. The branding piece last week evoked some strong feelings. 

I cannot claim that a large number of readers resonated with my piece; I can only say that the people who responded to me by and large shared my expressed sentiment. One of the suggestions that struck me – and I have heard this view repeatedly since we moved here in 2002 – is that this town takes forever to make decisions.

Based on my brief sojourn at the Lab, as well as the steady stream of stories I have been hearing for more than a decade, it is not Read More

SFI Seminar: The Slum as Organism

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SFI Seminar

Monday, June 10, 2013 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Jan Nijman Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam

The Slum as Organism

Abstract: Urban slums have proliferated throughout the developing world in cities of the so-called global south. In Mumbai, India, over half of the population of 12 million is now said to live in slums, a greater number in absolute and relative terms than ever before, despite a range of successive policies aimed at slum eradication or rehabilitation. Why do slums emerge and why Read More

LANL: New Phase Of Matter Discovered In Superconducting Material

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Arkady Shekhter setting up the resonant ultrasound measurement in a flow cryostat. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Researchers probe ‘pseudogap’ phase boundary, solve decades-old mystery

Tiny crystals, probed with a device called a resonant ultrasound spectrometer, are helping solve the long-time mystery of “pseudogap behavior” in copper oxide superconductors.

Described by an international team including Los Alamos scientists in this week’s Nature magazine, the research explored a compelling question in superconductivity, that of the strange metallic behavior of copper oxide (cuprate) Read More

LANL Safety Cinema Website Earns International Recognition

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LANL News:

  • Supports DOE, Voluntary Protection Program best practices

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s safety video website, Safety Cinema™, won the 2013 Communicator Award from the International Academy of Visual Arts in the education category.

The website also won the International Summit Creative Award in the training category.

Safety Cinema™ is a series of videos, fliers, posters, presentation slides and safety practices that support the well-being of employees at work and at home. The videos provide common-sense technical information in a fun and informal fashion and are designed Read More

Column: BRAIN Main Resource in Los Alamos

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Column by Liviu Popa-Simil
Los Alamos

I agree with all the facts presented in the column: ‘How Los Alamos and Little New Mexico Can Help Feed the World’ by William Sellers (June 1, 2013 ladailypost.com):

  • Earth population by March 2012 > 7 billion;
  • Food a security issue;
  • Fresh water abundance started to be a main concern and a problem too – desalinization technology may help – but not too much; and
  • DOE funded SMRs.

But here we are of divergent opinions:

  • DOE’s nuclear funding is more shy than ever; and
  • SMR is just a trick to go around a misinformed public opinion, because all the technologies
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DOE, LANS Public Information Meeting 5:30 p.m. Today

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LANL News:

A public information meeting about the pre-submittal of a permit modification to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Hazardous Waste Facility Permit is 5:30-7:30 p.m. today, June 6, at Fuller Lodge, 2132 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos.

The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) are holding the public information meeting prior to the submittal of a Class 3 permit modification request to add a treatment unit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Hazardous Waste Facility Permit.

The purpose of the meeting is to solicit questions from Read More

DOE Applauds Opening of Historic Disposal Facility

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EM Senior Advisor Dave Huizenga

NNSA News:

ANDREWS, Texas – Department of Energy (DOE) officials participated in an event today to celebrate the opening of the first commercial disposal facility of its kind.

Office of Environmental Management Senior Advisor Dave Huizenga and several other federal, state and local officials attended the event at Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in Andrews and witnessed the first container being placed in the new state-of-the-art facility. WCS is a waste processing and disposal company.

“I am proud to be here today to celebrate this historic event. We appreciate Read More