WASHINGTON, April 4 -- 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 17, 2023 Plutonium Facility-Infrastructure: On Monday night, the cool down spray for a HEPA filter housing actuated. The operations center reported receiving a signal from a  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for atmospheric carbon. "Forests store huge amounts of atmospheric carbon, so when western pine beetle infestations kill off millions of trees, that carbon dioxide goes back into the  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 (TNSrep)(TNScapv) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following 39-page report (No. PNNL-33060) entitled "14 MeV Irradiation and Analysis of a 93% 239Pu Target in Preparation for F2019 FY22 Pu Campaign." The report was written by Nic E. Uhnak, Morgan M. Haney, Larry Greenwood, Bruce Pierson, Truc Trang-Le, Dana Byram, Bruce McNamara, James Bowen, William Munley, Connor Hilton, Judah Friese and Lori Metz. Here are excerpts: *  more