COUNTY News:
All power has been restored to electric customers after an outage affected White Rock and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) due to an issue with the Norton transmission line.
The outage began at 9:25 p.m. Sunday. The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) reenergized the transmission line around 1:30 a.m. today, which resolved the outage.
The Norton Transmission line is one of two electric transmission lines that feed Los Alamos County and LANL. Read More
Members of the PEEC Nature Youth Group including Adis Bock, Zoe Bent, Tate Plohr, Suchir Jha, Celia Pesiri, Sebastian Koglin, Phoebe Reid and Aditya Viswanathan. Photo by Ryan Ramaker
By Ryan Ramaker and Gowri Srinivasan
Members of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) Nature Youth Group have been awarded a prestigious prize for their innovative and socially impactful Artificial Intelligence (AI) project in the high school track of NeurIPS, the world-renowned AI conference.
Their project was one of only four winners selected from 335 global entries, putting them in the top Read More
Linda Deck, center, and LANL Division Leader Community Partnerships Division Kathy Keith, center left, at the retirement open house held Wednesday, Oct. 2 where colleagues and friends gathered to honor Deck in her retirement after serving 17 years as director of the Bradbury Science Museum. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Bradbury Educator Chelsea Redman and Exhibit Designer and Manager Omar Juveland on behalf of the staff, present Linda Deck with a special wall hanging covered with memories of projects they worked on together during Deck’s 17 years as Bradbury director. Photo Read More
NNSA Los Alamos Field Office Manager Ted Wyka at the Sept. 24 Los Alamos County Council meeting discusses the field office and LANL efforts to ensure safe driving. Screenshot/LAC
BY KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
During a presentation to Los Alamos County Council Sept. 24, NNSA Los Alamos Field Office (NA-LA) Manager Ted Wyka reported that in 2025, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is projected to hired 1,400 people.
This, of course, means more people in town, which means more cars on the roads, which could spur bad driving, and in the worst case, traffic accidents. Read More
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, left, speaking with UbiQD Founder/CEO Hunter McDaniel during his tour of UbiQD’s advanced materials and technology manufacturing facility Wednesday at 134 Eastgate Drive. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, second from left, with UbiQD Founder/CEO Hunter McDaniel speaks with scientists during his tour Wednesday at UbiQD. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:
LANL News:
The Department of Energy (DOE); Triad National Security, LLC (Triad); and Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, LLC (N3B) are holding a virtual training via WebEx on the contents and use of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Electronic Public Reading Rooms (EPRRs) and the use of the Intellus New Mexico (IntellusNM) public environmental data portal.
The EPRR is an information repository for environmental and administrative information and correspondence required by Permit Section 1.10 of the LANL Hazardous Waste Facility Permit, issued November 2010. The LANL Electronic Read More
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For The Los Alamos Daily Post
Utilities such as gas, water and electric are necessities it is easy to take for granted. Loss of service due to natural disasters, such as hurricanes, happen; but what would happen if a utility company suffered a cyber-attack?
Unfortunately, that is just what happened earlier this month to American Water, the largest publicly traded utilities company in America. American Water is a major supplier of water in the US, serving more than 14 million customers across 14 states and 18 military installations. The company employs about Read More
Bennu and other nearby asteroids. Courtesy/NASA
LANL News:
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample itself, the data generated by OSIRIS-REx might also present an opportunity to probe new physics. As described in the journal Communications Physics, a Nature journal, an international research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory used the asteroid’s tracking Read More
Los Alamos Historical Society News:
The Los Alamos Historical Society invites you to a unique evening of history for “The General & the Genius: A Grandson’s Perspective,” a fundraising event dedicated to the restoration of the historic cottage where Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer lived during the Manhattan Project.
This 95-year-old cottage is a national treasure, and the goal is to raise $2 million to transform it into a gallery that will comprehensively narrate the life and legacy of Dr. Oppenheimer, both during and after the Manhattan Project.
The event is 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, at Read More
Family, friends and community gather this morning at Ashley Pond Park to celebrate the life of former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, who died in a vehicle accident Sept. 6, 2024, on the Main Hill Road. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Janet McMillan welcomes those gathered to honor and celebrate the life of her late husband Charlie McMillan (Oct. 25, 1954–Sept. 6, 2024), this morning at Ashley Pond Park. A full obituary is available here. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Scene of family, friends and community gathered this morning at Ashley Pond Park to Read More