Science

DOE/NNSA Awards $400M BPA To TechSource E-TESA

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TechSource News:

TechSource, Inc., a Veteran-owned small business, and the entire Enterprise-Wide Technical and Engineering Support Alliance (E-TESA) Team are honored to have received the DOE/NNSA Technical, Engineering & Programmatic Services (TEPS-3) Blanket Purchase Order (BPA) award. 

This $400 million award is a direct result of TechSource’s and the E-TESA team members’ dedication to providing outstanding support over the past decade under the two previous TEPS BPAs.

TechSource’s Senior Vice President and E-TESA Program Manager Jim Rhone shared, “E-TESA continues to Read More

NNSA’s Hruby Visits South Korea To Discuss National Security, Nonproliferation, And Nuclear Security Issues

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NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby tours Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute’s fuel fabrication facility. Courtesy/NNSA 

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON — Jill Hruby, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), wrapped up her visit to East Asia Saturday with a trip to South Korea.

She discussed national defense, nuclear nonproliferation, and nuclear security with her counterparts, visited key scientific organizations, and hosted a dialogue with several policy experts.

“The relationship between the United States and South Korea is strong, and both sides bring tremendous Read More

General Atomics Scientists Leverage DOE Supercomputers To Advance Fusion Energy

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General Atomics News:

SAN DIEGO — Scientists at General Atomics (GA) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego have been awarded highly sought-after computing time on two leading supercomputers as part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. The award was announced in late June.

ALCC projects, with applications from advanced energy systems to climate change, use DOE supercomputers to uncover unique insights about scientific problems that would otherwise be impossible to solve Read More

LANL News Roundup For Week Of Aug. 8, 2022

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Science: Math error – A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception

A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years, to describe how your eye distinguishes one color from another. The research has the potential to boost scientific data visualizations, improve TVs and recalibrate the textile and paint industries. Read full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

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JROMC Hosts Dinner For J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee Lecturer Dr. Feryal Özel

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2022 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee Scholarship recipients pose with JROMC Lecturer Feryal Özel  Thursday evening at Cottonwood on the Greens. Özel spoke Friday evening at Duane Smith Auditorium. The title of her lecture was Black Holes: from Oppenheimer’s Ideas to the First Direct Images. Scholarship recipients from left, Deshawn Sanchez, Jennie Gao, Phillip Ionkov, Özel, Mathias Mares, Cinyoung Huang, Aaron Philip and Olivia Koo. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

JROMC members Rebecca Shankland and Leon Heller in conversation after dinner. Photo by Bonnie J. Read More

Los Alamos Rotary Hears Talk By Astrophysicist Dr. Rick Wallace On ‘The James Webb Space Telescope, First Images 2022’

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Astrophysicist Rick Wallace recently gave a presentation about the deep space images from the James Webb Space Telescope to the Rotary Club. Here he assures his audience that there will only be a ‘tiny bit of physics’. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos 

Promising his presentation would only include “tiny bit of physics”, Dr. Rick Wallace, retired Los Alamos National Laboratory astronomer and astrophysicist, spoke Aug. 2 at the Rotary Club of Los Alamos about “The James Webb Space Telescope, First Images 2022”.

With PowerPoint slides that featured James Read More

LANL: John Watt Talks Nanomaterials At The Periodic Table Monday Aug. 15

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John Watt

LANL News:

Get the big picture on small things when John Watt talks nanomaterials for the August installment of The Periodic Table, a science outreach event organized by the Bradbury Science Museum.

A materials chemist and electron microscopist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Watt will discuss how cryogenic imaging techniques from structural biology research are having a big impact in materials science.

The community is invited to attend this talk 5:30-7 p.m., Monday, Aug. 15, on the patio at Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op, 163 Read More

Take A Closer Look At James Webb Space Telescope Images At NM Museum Of Natural History & Science Aug. 20

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The James Webb Space Telescope. Courtesy/NMMNHS

NMMNHS News:

If the photos of far-distant galaxies taken by the James Webb Space Telescope left you wanting more, head to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) Saturday, Aug. 20 for a deeper look at the unique images, led by experts who assisted with the mission.

The Museum is hosting a special Space Science event Aug. 20 featuring experts from the University of New Mexico who participated in the mission itself. UNM professors Dr. Diana Dragomir, who works on the team of astronomers interpreting Webb’s images, and Tony Read More

NNSA: 45 Kilograms Of Highly Enriched Uranium Removed From Japan, Returned To United States

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NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby in the KUCA reactor room with Professor Hironobu Unesaki, left, and Ken Nakajima, Director of the Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science at Kyoto University. Courtesy/NNSA

Kyoto University and Y-12 National Security Complex technical experts prepare the highly enriched uranium shipping containers for transportation. Courtesy/Kyoto University

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fulfilling a commitment made at the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Japan’s Read More

LANL News Roundup For Week Of Aug. 1-5

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Science: Innovative technologies featured at the 8th Annual DisrupTECH

Innovations in crime-scene sampling, carbon capture and 3D printing were just some of the disruptive technologies featured at DisrupTECH Aug. 3, the eighth annual convergence of tech transfer and entrepreneurship offered by the Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation and the New Mexico Start-Up Factory. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of Aug. 1-5, 2022.

Research in MAGLAB verifies new phase of matter in Read More