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NNSA Launches Development Of Enterprise Blueprint

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NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has launched an effort to develop an Enterprise Blueprint.

The Blueprint will define NNSA’s integrated priorities for the capabilities to achieve needed capacity, resilience and responsiveness across the distributed enterprise.

NNSA’s mission is essential to the security of the United States and its partners and allies, and the Nuclear Security Enterprise must keep pace with the dynamic global environment. Although NNSA has started modernizing the Enterprise, a clear Read More

LANL’s John Sarrao Prepares To Lead SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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LANL Deputy Director John Sarrao during a recent interview at the Los Alamos Daily Post about his move to lead SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Following a 33-year career at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Deputy Director John Sarrao has been named Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. SLAC, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, Calif., and one Read More

2023 Notice Of Public Training For LANL Electronic Public Reading Room And IntellusNM

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LANL News:

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

The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory:

Members of the public may view these documents and many others at LANL’s Electronic Public Reading Room. Read More

LANL Space Scientist Dan Reisenfeld To Speak At Monthly Periodic Table Monday Sept. 18 At projectY cowork

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LANL Space scientist Dan Reisenfeld

LANL News:

At this month’s Periodic Table program, explore heliophysics and learn what’s ahead for the thrilling Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission.

This mission is a multi-institution collaboration that aims to investigate energetic particles’ acceleration and interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium.

Space scientist Dan Reisenfeld will discuss Los Alamos National Laboratory’s role in the project 5:30-7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 18 at projectY cowork.

The Periodic Table is the Bradbury Science Museum’s casual, Read More

Response To NMED & EPA Comments & More Added To LANL Electronic Public 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:

  • NPDES Permit No. NM0030759 – Certification of Installation of Enhanced Control Measures for CHQ-SMA-1.02 and M-SMA-12.9 (Link)
  • NPDES Permit No. NM0030759 – Certification
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Los Alamos Chamber Organizing Child Care Resource Fair

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CHAMBER News:

The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce is organizing a Child Care Resource Fair to be held 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13 on the Fuller Lodge Lawn.

Sponsored by Triad National Security, LLC, and Los Alamos County, the event will connect parents to all of the child care and after-school care options in town.

The Chamber thanks both Triad, LLC and Los Alamos County for sponsoring the first ever Los Alamos Child Care Resource Fair, and Triad, LLC for providing food. First come, first served!

Local businesses or organizations that offer child care or after-school care options may register Read More

NNSA Proposes Temporary Hydrogen Fueling Station

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NNSA News:

The U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) proposes a temporary hydrogen fueling station in an existing area of development (i.e. asphalt parking lot) on Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) property in Technical Area (TA)-03.

The purpose of the station is to facilitate the fueling of a leased hydrogen-fueled bus. This project will help understand fueling needs as LANL expands the hydrogen-fueled fleet and will serve as a proof of concept for future need of alternative fuels.

This project is temporary, supporting the hydrogen bus and fleet Read More

LANL: Not Too Big – Machine Learning Tames Huge Data Sets

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The ‘out-of-memory’ non-negative matrix factorization algorithm has shown impressive scaling results on data sets too big to fit in computer memory on devices ranging from laptops to supercomputers. The algorithm is used in data compression, data analytics and machine learning. Courtesy/Shutterstock

LANL News:

A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer’s available memory by identifying a massive data set’s key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don’t choke computer hardware. Developed at Los Alamos National Read More

DOE/NNSA Comment Period Begins For Los Alamos Canyon Sediment Reduction And Restoration Project

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DOE/NNSA News:

The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA) Los Alamos Field Office has issued a Floodplain Assessment for the Los Alamos Canyon Sediment Reduction and Restoration Project for a 15-day review and comment period commencing with publication of this notice.

The Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities is planning to restore and address sedimentation from post wildfire flooding impacts in Los Alamos Canyon located within the 100-year floodplain. This restoration project includes: the upper watershed area above the reservoir, Read More

Approval, Investigation Report For Lower Water/Indio Canyons Aggregate Area & More Added To LANL Electronic Public 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:

  • Approval, Investigation Report for Lower Water/Indio Canyons Aggregate Area Los Alamos National Laboratory, Revision 1 (Link)
  • Submittal of the Quarterly
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