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Nuke Bird Vulnerability

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Indian Point nuclear power plant. Courtesy/wikipedia

 

HSNW News:

  • Bird droppings cause N.Y. nuclear reactor power outage

One of the nuclear reactors at Indian Point nuclear power plant outside New York City was safely shut down for three days last December, following an electrical disturbance on outdoor high voltage transmission lines.

Entergy Corp., which operates the power plant, hired outside expert to analyze the incident, and they found that the culprit was what the experts call bird “streaming.”

“If it has nowhere to send its electricity, the generator senses that and Read More

Life Changing Auction At 2 p.m. Today

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Site Boss Brad Meyer shares a special gift with family members by placing a cross near the entry. Photo by UNCHLA Pastor David Elton

UNITED CHURCH News:

The United Church of Los Alamos and the Universalist Unitarian Church hope the community will attend a life changing auction at 2 p.m. today.

The silent auction begins at 2 p.m., followed by a live auction at 3 p.m., featuring 60 items from the gently used to handmade just for the occasion. Those items along with gift certificates for memory making to muscle intensive activities for all ages ranging from yard work to babysitting and more.

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Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record

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NASA News:
 
By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe.
 
This surprisingly bright, infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang. GN-z11 is located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major.

“We’ve taken a major step back in time, beyond what we’d ever expected to be able to do with Hubble. We see GN-z11 at a time when the universe

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DOE On Launch Of U.S. – Republic Of Korea High Level Bilateral Commission

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U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

DOE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Korea Cho Tae-yul announced Thursday the launch of the High Level Bilateral Commission (HLBC). 

Republic of Korea Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yul

In their roles as HLBC Co-Chairs, Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall and Vice Minister Cho also announced that the first meeting of the HLBC will take place April 14 in Seoul. Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall will travel Read More

Eavesdropping On Aliens: Searching For Extraterrestrials Who Might Have Found Us First

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Solar eclipse: when the Earth passes in front of the Sun, it blocks a small part of the Sun’s light. Potential observers outside our solar system might be able to detect the resulting dimming of the Sun and study the Earth’s atmosphere. This transit method helped to find most of the 2000 exoplanets known to us today. Courtesy/©NASA/Axel Quetz (MPIA)
 
MPS News:
 
Are we alone in the universe? To answer this question, astronomers have been using a variety of methods in the past decades to search for habitable planets and for the signals from extraterrestrial observers.
 
The
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AGU: New Research Reveals Sound Of Deep-Water Animal Migration

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AGU News:
 
NEW ORLEANS ― The American Geophysical Union has announced that new research finds there is a distinct sound coming from a massive community of fish, shrimp, jellies and squid as they travel up and down from the depths of the ocean to the water’s surface to feed.
 
This sound could be serving as a “dinner bell” for these deep-water organisms that play a key role in ocean food webs and the global carbon cycle, and could help scientists better understand this mysterious ecosystem, according to new research being presented here Monday.
 
A vast number of animals, including
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Argonne And Los Alamos National Laboratories Team Up To Develop More Affordable Fuel Cell Components

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ElectroCat Team: Inside LANL’s fuel cell test lab, graduate students and a post-doctoral researcher work on ElectroCat technology–at rear, Joseph Dumont, Ulises Martinez, Ling Lin. Courtesy/LANL

ElectroCat equipment: An X-ray computed microtomograph (MicroXCT) for non-destructive 3D-imaging of fuel cell components is among the tools that will be of use in the ElectroCat fuel cell project. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne and Los Alamos national laboratories have teamed up to support a DOE initiative through the creation Read More

Classical Music World: Pale Blue Dot

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The Dover Quartet performs in Los Alamos March 11 at Smith Auditorium. Courtesy photo
 

The Pale Blue Dot: This iconic image was taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from a distance of almost 4 billion miles from Earth. The dot can be seen about halfway down the orange stripe on the right. Courtesy/NASA

 

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN, Artistic Director
Los Alamos Concert Association

There are plenty of classical works inspired by or associated with heavenly bodies. Debussy’s ever-popular, Clair de Lune comes to mind as does Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Gustav Holst’s The Planets, is a staple Read More

Hospital Ransomware Plague Growing Worldwide

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HSNW News:

Homeland Security News Wire reports that hackers have attacked several hospitals in Germany with ransomware – locking medical files and demanding ransom payment for releasing the encrypted data.

The blackmailing of hospitals by encrypting their medical file has become a growing problem around the world. In California, for example, a Hollywood hospital earlier this month had to pay about $17,000 in the digital currency bitcoins to hackers in order to regain access to medical files.

Two weeks ago, an employee at the Lukas Hospital in Neuss, a city in western Germany, noticed Read More

Veterans For Peace Release Statement On Torture Rhetoric In 2016 Presidential Campaign

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VFP News:
 
ST. LOUIS, MO ― Veterans For Peace strongly condemns and denounces the pro-torture rhetoric being used in the 2016 presidential campaign.
 
Recent statements by several presidential candidates, most notably Donald Trump, but also Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and others, have advocated the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques, euphemistically-dubbed “enhanced interrogation,” or have failed to rule out torture in the interrogation of terror suspects.
 
In doing so, these candidates have effectively admitted they would violate U.S. and international
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