WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: In June, the Laboratory and subcontractor Hensel Phelps completed concrete placements for four warehouses that will provide more than 80,000 square feet - an area about one-and-a-half times the size of a football field - of additional storage capacity and workspace. * * * Key step in supporting the pit production mission Approximately 5,000 cubic yards of concrete were laid for t  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release on July 19, 2023: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) secured major wins in the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) that support New Mexico's men and women in uniform, military installations, national labs, and job-creating initiatives throughout the state. The Senate took its first procedural vote to open up consideration of the NDAA yesterday w  more

MENLO PARK, California, July 18 (TNSper) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on July 17, 2023: Physicist and scientific leader John Sarrao will become SLAC's sixth director. He succeeds X-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao, who stepped down after 10 years in the position. Following a broad, international search, John Sarrao, deputy director for science, technology & engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), has been named SLAC National Accelerator  more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- 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 30, 2023 Staff Activity: J. Abrefah, M. Bradisse, F. Ruz-Nuglo, and E. Tetteh were on-site to continue their glovebox integrity review. Their visit included tours of a co  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: A new approach to developing semiconductor materials at tiny scales could help boost applications that rely on converting light to energy. A Los Alamos-led research team incorporated magnetic dopants into specially engineered colloidal quantum dots -- nanoscale-size semiconductor crystals -- and was able to achieve effects that may power solar cell technology, photodetectors  more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- 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 (NNSA) has awarded two organizations five-year grants totaling $2.17 million, to develop and strengthen apprenticeship training programs aligned with NNSA's needs for traditional and emerging technician positions throughout its laboratories, plants, and sites. The selections were made after rev  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 20 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release on July 19, 2023: * * * Microscopic cracks vanish in experiments, revealing possibility of self-healing machines * * * Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed,   more