WASHINGTON, March 25 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 24, 2023: Dimitri Argyriou, an accomplished physicist and Associate Director for In-Kind Management at the European Spallation Source, has been selected to serve as the next director of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). His appointment is expected to begin this June  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 (TNSgov) -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) each introduced the WATER Act, a comprehensive bill to expand access to clean, safe, and affordable drinking water. The Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity and Reliability Act has 72 cosponsors across both chambers of Congress and is co-led in the House by Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17). The WATER Act was first introduc  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending March 3, 2023 Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility (WETF)-Readiness: The contractor readiness assessment team evaluating plutonium coupon study operations completed its review an  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: A Los Alamos National Laboratory team has overcome key challenges toward technologically viable high-intensity light emitters based on colloidal quantum dot technology, resulting in dual-function devices that operate as both an optically excited laser and a high-brightness electrically driven light-emitting diode (LED). As described in the journal Advanced Materials, this   more

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: The year 1945 marked not only the birth of the atomic age, but also the birth of modern computer programming. The first fully electronic computing machine, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), came online in December 1945. But programming the ENIAC was an excruciatingly difficult task. Klara Dan von Neumann, who joined the Laboratory at Los Alamos after WWII, he  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 23 (TNSres)(TNSgov) -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: * * * Analyst: Ambitious crash plan for two pit factories is failing, as independent review warned could happen * * * The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) fiscal year 2024 (FY24) funding request portrays NNSA's effort to prepare for production of plutonium cores ("pits") for nuclear warheads as falling further behind the congressionally-impo  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) each introduced the WATER Act, a comprehensive bill to expand access to clean, safe, and affordable drinking water. The Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity and Reliability Act has 72 cosponsors across both chambers of Congress and is co-led in the House by Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17). The WAT  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: The New Mexico Regional Science Bowl, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, brought together 14 high school teams from across the state as part of the Department of Energy's National Science Bowl competition. Los Alamos High School's "Team 1" emerged victorious. This comes just weeks after Los Alamos Middle School's "Team 2" won during the middle school comp  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Pluma, LLC, has been nominated by Sandia National Laboratories as the Department of Energy's Protege of the Year as part of its Mentor-Protege Program. Pluma, a general construction business started in Albuquerque, is one of five businesses Sandia accepted into the program with the mission of helping them grow with the labs' guidance, knowledge, leadership and res  more