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LANL: Tongan Volcano Plume Produced Most Intense Lightning Rates Ever Detected

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Powerful volcanic eruptions produce ash plumes that can create their own weather systems, providing the conditions for lightning at higher altitudes than normally seen. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

New research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on Earth, more than any storm ever documented.

“The eruption of Hunga Volcano was the largest volcanic explosion since Krakatau in 1883,” Sonja Behnke saod, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Electromagnetic Read More

Frontiers In Science: Find Out How The R&D 100 Award-Winning LightSlinger Antenna Can Bridge The Digital Divide

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The next installment of Frontiers in Science is 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, June 22 at SALA in Los Alamos and Thursday, June 22 at Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fellows present the lecture series Frontiers in Science with Andrea Schmidt and John Singleton, the duo behind the award-winning LightSlinger, a new antenna that generates radio waves from faster-than-light currents.

As wireless communications technology continues to advance, the need for smaller, more versatile and energy- and cost-efficient antennas is becoming Read More

Military Order Of The World Wars To Host Featured Speaker LANL Director Emeritus Dr. Sig Hecker June 20

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Dr. Sig Hecker

MOWW News:

This month’s Military Order of the World Wars Chapter 229 (MOWW) speaker will be LANL Director Emeritus Dr. Sig Hecker on “How Putin’s invasion of Ukraine destroys the Global Nuclear Order”.

Although we still don’t know how the war in Ukraine will end, we know that the suffering inflicted on Ukraine’s people by Putin’s war is horrific. We also don’t know if Putin will resort to tactical nuclear weapons in desperation, but we know that the war has destroyed the global nuclear order established over the years since World War II.

Although there are many critics of that nuclear Read More

LANL: Science Digging Deep Into Quantum Materials

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Members of the high-entropy alloys team, from left, Matthew Chancey (MST-8), Jon (Kevin) Baldwin (MPA-CINT), Jonathan Gigax (ORI-2), Saryu Fensin (MPA-CINT), Matheus Tunes (MST-8), Osman El Atwani (MST-8). Courtesy/LANL

The research team demonstrated that minor additions of hafnium into the WTaCrV high entropy alloy lead to higher radiation resistance. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • New tungsten-based alloy better withstands fusion energy environments

A newly developed tungsten-based alloy that performs well in extreme environments similar to those in fusion reactor prototypes Read More

Interim Facility-Wide Groundwater Monitoring Plan For 2024 Monitoring Year Added To Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup 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.

  • Submittal of the Interim Facility-Wide Groundwater Monitoring Plan for the 2024 Monitoring Year, October 2023–September 2024 (Link)

Members of the public Read More

Notice Of Completion Of Off-Site Waste Shipments For Second Quarter FY-2023 Added To Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup 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:

  • Notice of Completion of Off-Site Waste Shipments for the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 for Los Alamos National Laboratory, as Required by the Federal Facility
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Margarita Ryan Paints Mural Of Oppie At Tub Celebration

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Artist Margarita Ryan painted this mural of J. Robert Oppenheimer on the back fence behind the new bar in the Back 40 during the Tub’s expansion celebration Sunday in Central Park Square. Courtesy photo

Artist Margarita Ryan begins to paint a mural of J. Robert Oppenheimer on the back fence behind the new bar in the Back 40 during the Tub’s expansion celebration Sunday in Central Park Square. Courtesy photo Read More

LANL: Digging Deep Into Quantum Materials

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Pulsed terahertz-emission spectroscopy from symmetry-broken material. This illustration shows an ultrafast optical field incident on material with broken spatial symmetry (blue), time-reversal symmetry (yellow) or both (green) to generate terahertz radiation. Insets illustrate various mechanisms that lead to rectified-terahertz currents in high-frequency optical fields. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Terahertz-emission spectroscopy has emerged as a valuable technique for investigating static physical properties as well as ultrafast dynamics occurring in novel material Read More