WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSjou) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news: * * * Researchers gather in Texas and online to share data, preliminary results, collaborations, and next steps from the Houston-focused ARM campaign * * * To gain the most from an atmospheric science field campaign, it is important to reflect on what happened, its meaning, lessons learned, and what remains to be done. Take TRACER, for example, w  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the text of the following letter: * * * June 20, 2023 To, The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm, Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-1000 Dear Secretary Granholm: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) is evaluating the safety of the Plutonium Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, particularly in seismic and fire accident conditions. The  more

DEARBORN, Michigan, June 29 (TNSbook) -- Henry Ford College issued the following news release: HFC archivist and reference librarian John Gibson does not own a yacht, and he does not want to own a yacht. Yet he has been a member of the historic Detroit Yacht Club since 2013 and wrote a book called Detroit Yacht Club as part of Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. "My wife (Detroit Yacht Club co-author Toni Michnovicz Gibson) and I are ballroom dancers," said Gibson. "The Yacht Club h  more

LIVERMORE, California, June 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: A score of top-ranked university students from around the nation received a one-day "crash course" in some of the critical nuclear science and nonproliferation missions of the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at an event held earlier this month at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Twenty students p  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- 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 June 2, 2023 Emergency Management: On Wednesday, the resident inspectors attended the annual wildland fire and forest management meeting with NNSA Field Office, Environ  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New technique for implanting defects could be scalable for quantum technologies * * * A new approach to manufacture quantum defects in semiconductors presents a way to better employ those defects as quantum light emitters, a light source emitting a stream of photons on demand. Current methods of creating defects are random and imprecise, but the innovative defect-ma  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * More is better - to a point - when using a large number of parameters to train machine learning models on quantum computers * * * A groundbreaking theoretical proof shows that a technique called overparametrization enhances performance in quantum machine learning for applications that stymie classical computers. "We believe our results will be useful in using machi  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on June 27, 2023: * * * Grooved electrode design finds efficiency with innovative architecture * * * Promising new hydrogen fuel cell technology has up to 50% higher performance than current, state-of-the-art technology, with improved durability. The grooved electrode design advance may help optimize next-generation fuel cell technology to power emission-free medium- and h  more