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LANL: Correcting Old Space-Physics Error For Safer Satellites

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The Van Allen radiation belts provide a natural analogue to artificial radiation belts that could occur after a high-altitude nuclear explosion. In this image, the red lines circling Earth is an artificial belt of high intensity, and the yellow regions are the natural belts; LEO/MEO/GEO refer to low-Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Correcting 50-year-old errors in the math used to understand how electromagnetic waves scatter electrons trapped in Earth’s magnetic fields will lead to better protection for technology in space.

“The Read More

N3B Performs Robust Sampling, Monitoring To Drive Legacy Waste Cleanup At Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Groundwater monitoring studies began in 1945 at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Today, workers collect nearly 2,300 groundwater samples annually. The groundwater samples are collected from a network of more than 200 monitoring wells located on LANL, Pueblo de San Ildefonso, Los Alamos County and Santa Fe County property. The sampling helps ensure water drawn for human consumption meets all federal and state drinking water standards. Courtesy/N3B

The low-head weir pictured is one of many storm water controls that help prevent contaminated sediment from being transported downstream. Read More

2024 REDI Summit March 5 At Buffalo Thunder Resort

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REDI News:

Supporting local area communities to reach their economic development goals, the Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) announces that the 2024 REDI Summit is right around the corner. Read background here.

It’s 10 a.m. to 1L30 p.m. March 5, following Los Alamos National Laboratory’s, Community Partnerships Office’s Community Conversation.

The purpose of the REDI Summit is to review the 2023 Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) Plan update and to roll up our sleeves and provide input on strategies to fuel job creation, economic growth, and improve standards Read More

Review, 2023 Annual Periodic Monitoring Report For Base-Flow Sampling Added To LANL Electronic Reading Room

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • Review, 2023 Annual Periodic Monitoring Report for The General Surveillance Monitoring Group: Los Alamos and Pueblo Canyon, Mortandad and Sandia Canyon, Water
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LANL: Recycling Old Electrical Devices Minimizes Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Eco-Footprint

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In a project that rounded up more than 100 of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s legacy electrical devices no longer in use — all of which contained oil and some that contained the now-banned chemical compound known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs — one non-negotiable prevailed. The devices must be recycled, rather than buried in a landfill, which is what LANL project owners told interested bidders. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL Read More

Officials Cut Ribbon On Bilingual Montessori School Los Alamos Campus

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Participating in Tuesday’s ribbon cutting on the Bilingual Montessori School Los Alamos campus, from left, NNSA Los Alamos Field Office Manager Ted Wyka, Vice President of the University of California Office of the National Laboratories Craig Leasure, Laboratory Staff Director Frances Chadwick, LANL Director Thom Mason, Triad Board Chair Jay Sures and Bilingual Montessori’s Odalys González Fernández, Juan Carlos Fernández, Rebekah Seitz and Dora Gonzalez. Courtesy/LANL

Attendees gather in a room at the new Bilingual Montessori School Los Alamos campus. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More

Laboratory Retiree Group: ‘First Tuesday’ Breakfast March 5

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LRG News:

Laboratory Retiree Group (LRG) invites Lab retirees (and potential retirees) are invited to drop in at the “First Tuesday” monthly breakfast social, 8:30-10:30 a.m. March 5 at Muy Salsas, 1315 Trinity Dr.

LRG pays for everyone’s coffee and tea and attendees pay for their breakfast and other drinks.

Contact sgirard@losalamos.com or 505.672.3497 for more information.

More information about LRG can be found at https://lalrg.org. Read More

Meet The Bradbury’s New Director! … Patrick Moore!

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Patrick Moore

Bradbury Science Museum News:

The Bradbury Science Museum has announced that Patrick Moore — a native of Los Alamos with several decades of public history experience, who has led at historic sites throughout New Mexico — will join the Bradbury in March as director.

“In many ways, the privilege of directing the Bradbury is like coming full circle with not simply my professional career, but my life to this point,” Moore said. “My earliest museum memories stem from the Bradbury. It shaped my childhood comprehension of scientific concepts like fission through its (former) ping-pong Read More

PI-Rates Of The Caribbean At LAMS (3/14)

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LAMS News:

Los Alamos Middle School (LAMS) will be celebrating Pi Day (3/14) this year with a little help from Pirates of the Caribbean and a lot of help from the community.

Pi Day (3/14) is a highlight on the middle school calendar. Traditionally, the LAMS PTO with the middle school staff hosts a daylong event for students surrounding the concept of π. The goal of Pi Day is to promote math literacy and the concept of Pi in a fun, hands-on learning environment.

This year Pi Day has a “Pi”-rates of the Caribbean theme. LAMS PTO and staff will set up 12 stations each named after a Caribbean island. Each station Read More

LANL: Floodplain Assessment Issued For County Waterline And San Ildefonso Pueblo Fiber Optic Cable

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LANL News:

This floodplain assessment has been prepared for two projects by two separate proponents in Los Alamos County.

Portions of the project are located on Department of Energy property. One project is the construction and operation of a new water supply line within the right-of-way of New Mexico Highway 4 (N.M. 4) by Los Alamos County’s Department of Public Utilities. The other project is the installation of a fiber optic conduit and cable within the right-of-way of N.M. 4 and New Mexico Highway 502 (N.M. 502) by Pueblo de San Ildefonso.

The two project proponents are working together to Read More