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NMC Voted #1 Algae Laboratory In International Readers’ Poll

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NMC News:
 
The New Mexico Consortium has been voted the number 1 Algae Laboratory and international Readers’ Poll in Algae Industry Magazine.
 
 
Algae Industry Magazine is the online trade publication addressing the growth and development of the algae biofuels and co-products industry:
  • its influential personalities;
  • developing technologies;
  • evolving businesses;
  • breakthrough products, and;
  • important news and timely information
 
Read the 2015 International Readers’ Poll results here.
 
The NMC is very proud of our state of the art
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Warmer Oceans Could Substantially Boost Destructive Power Of Future Superstorms

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AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hurricane Sandy became the second costliest hurricane to hit the United States when it blew ashore in October 2012, killing 159 people and inflicting $71 billion in damage.
 
Informally known as a “superstorm” after it made landfall, Sandy was so destructive largely because of its unusual size and track. After moving north from the tropical waters where it spawned, Sandy turned out to sea before hooking back west, growing in size and crashing head-on into the East Coast, gaining strength when it merged with an eastbound mid-latitude
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LANL’s Plutonium Plans Move Forward, Draw Fire

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Aerial view of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy photo
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration continue to move toward establishing a long-term manufacturing capability for producing plutonium pits, the nuclear triggers for thermonuclear weapons, at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

LANL has long played a crucial leadership role in investigating and handling plutonium materials and maintaining the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. A Los Alamos site report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Read More

Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority Approves Planned Irradiation Project At Halden Research Reactor

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LTBR News:
 
Reston, VA ― Lightbridge Corporation, a U.S. nuclear energy company, announced Thursday that the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), which operates the Halden Research Reactor in Norway, had received formal regulatory approval from the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) for all planned irradiation of Lightbridge metallic fuel at the Halden Research Reactor in Norway, which is expected to begin in 2017.
 
This regulatory approval follows a safety report previously submitted by IFE to the NRPA relating to irradiation testing of Lightbridge-designed
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Caltech Researchers Find Evidence Of A Real Ninth Planet

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This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night side. Courtesy/Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

CALTECH News:

This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night side.
Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

– See more at: https:////www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523#sthash.LN79Qeyo.dpuf

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Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker: ‘Doomed To Cooperate’ Jan. 23

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Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, Stanford University
 
COMMUNITY News:
 
Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker will present a Los Alamos public lecture about how American and Russian Nuclear scientists joined forces to mitigate some of the greatest post-Cold War Dangers.
 
The free lecture is 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1967 18th St.
 
Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker will discuss how nuclear risks changed dramatically when the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991. Suddenly the world was threatened more by Russia’s weakness
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IET Issues Call For Papers To Gas Turbine Instrumentation Community

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IET News:
 
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)—a member organization of the Automation Federation—has issued a Call for Papers, inviting experts within the international gas turbine instrumentation community to share their latest research and results at the 2016 EVI-GTI Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation.
 
The conference, to take place in September in Berlin, Germany and bring together gas turbine professionals, process engineers and leading industry experts to discuss new and innovative instrumentation techniques, developments and applications
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Lecture On Angela Merkel At Albuquerque International Association Sunday, Jan. 24

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Angela Merkel

AIA News:

Albuquerque International Association presents its first lecture of 2016: From Cold War to Hot Peace? Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin and the ‘Triangulation’ of German Foreign Policy, by Dr. Joyce Mushaben, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

The lecture is 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24 at the UNM Continuing Education Conference Center, 1634 University Blvd. NE in Albuquerque.

As Germany’s first female, Eastern Chancellor, Angela Merkel took to the international stage like a moth to a flame. She quickly emerged as an effective mediator among Read More

Griggs: Ringside Table On Life In The Marrakech Medina

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House buntings cheerfully clean up the floor in a restaurant on top of a fondouk where in days gone by visiting merchants would unload their camels and store their goods to sell in the souks. Courtesy photo

Los Alamos Daily Post foreign correspondent David Griggs having dinner at La Porte du Monde, deep in the ancient Marrakech Medina. In the background, the narrow Rue Riad Zitoun Djdid passes through an old arch. Courtesy photo

 

By DAVID GRIGGS
Foreign Correspondent
Los Alamos Daily Post

Recently I had the pleasure of spending two months in Morocco, on the northwest coast of Africa.

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LANL: Machine Learning Helps Discover Most Luminous Supernova In History

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An artist’s impression of the record-breaking superluminous supernova ASASSN-15lh as it would appear from an exoplanet about 10,000 light years away in the host galaxy of the supernova. Courtesy/Beijing Planetarium – Jin Ma

Two of the 14-centimeter diameter lens telescopes in use for the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) that discovered ASASSN-15lh. Since this photo was taken, two more telescopes have been added to the ASAS-SN station in Cerro Tololo, Chile. Courtesy/Wayne Rosing

LANL News:

  • Powerful explosion 570 billion times brighter than the sun

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