WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending February 17, 2023 Board Activity: On Friday, the resident inspectors and staff member D. Bullen joined Vice Chair T. Summers on a tour of the Trinity Site with Sandia Field Of  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Viewers from around the region tuned in Feb. 27 for a virtual public town hall featuring Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Thom Mason and special guest Ted Wyka, manager of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos Field Office. Filming live at the Laboratory's leased facility on Pacheco Street in Santa Fe, the pair covered a wide range of mission-focused topi  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 6 -- The New Mexico Senate Democrats issued the following news release: Senate Bill 11: the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act, passed the New Mexico Senate (23-15). Sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart (D - Albuquerque), Senate Majority Whip Michael Padilla (D - Albuquerque), and Representatives Christine Chandler (D - Los Alamos), Linda Serrato (D - Santa Fe), and Patricia Roybal Caballero (D - Albuquerque), the act will set up a new program through  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration reached an important milestone on the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project (LAP4), approving Critical Decision-2/3 - Approve Performance Baseline/Approve Start of Construction - for the 30 Base Equipment Installation subproject. LAP4 is an integral part of NNSA's plan to re-establish   more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release on March 9, 2023: Today the National Nuclear Security Administration announced the FY 2022 results of the performance of its Managing and Operating (M&O) partners in meeting NNSA's performance expectations. The results can be found in NNSA's Performance Evaluation Summaries posted on NNSA's website. The summaries feature an easy-to-read and transparent assessment s  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Energetic electrons from a powerful process that underlies solar flares -- explosive bursts of plasma particles that can disrupt satellites, cell phone service and powerlines on Earth -- have been detected for the first time by an experiment by researchers at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plas  more

ROLLA, Missouri, March 10 (TNSfund) -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: A researcher at Missouri S&T was recently tapped by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a $2 million grant project related to critical minerals and clean energy. "Our work for this project will be a game-changer," says Dr. Hongyan Ma, Francisco Benavides Scholar and associate professor of civil engineering at S&T. "The aim of our   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 11 (TNSrpt) -- The Los Alamos Study Group posted the following news release on March 9, 2023: This morning the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) -- the semi-autonomous part of the Department of Energy (DOE) which designs and produces U.S. nuclear warheads -- released redacted versions of its fiscal year 2022 (FY22) performance evaluation reports (PERs) for its management and operating (M&O) contractors. The Study Group and no doubt others had reques  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 9 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: Yuval Kluger, who works in the broad fields of bioinformatics, machine learning, and applied mathematics to develop new approaches for analyzing large biological data sets, was recently appointed the Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology, effective immediately. Kluger completed his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Tel Aviv University and postdoctoral training in physics at the Los Alamos and Berkeley Nation  more