ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 26 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: In an effort to speed the licensing of advanced nuclear reactors, ensure that communities are respected during reactor siting, monitor and limit corrosion in nuclear reactors, and more, the Department of Energy has awarded $7.5 million to Michigan Engineering researchers. The biggest project U-M leads, funded with $3 million from DOE's Integrated Research Projects program, aims to speed up the advance  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news: * * * An ARM field campaign in Colorado ends an epic phase of observations and begins its focus on data analysis and modeling * * * In early June 2023, Daniel Feldman and Allison Aiken hiked along a mountain trail in a region of Colorado where distant peaks jutted into the sky and stands of forests seemed to rise out of a landscape painting. Undi  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) awarded a new task order contract to Aptim Federal Services, LLC, of Baton Rouge Louisiana under the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning, and Removal (DD&R) contract to perform DD&R of the former Ion Beam Facility (IBF) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Me  more

BOULDER, Colorado, July 28 -- The Geological Society of America issued the following news release: GSA is pleased to welcome three exceptional new Fellows who will join us in our mission to advance geoscience knowledge and discovery through excellent writing, research, and advocacy. GSA's 2023-2024 Science Communication Fellow is Arianna Soldati. Soldati is an assistant professor of volcanology at North Carolina State University. Her lab group works on a variety of topics, ranging from effusi  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the Senate Appropriations Committee's bipartisan passage of the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, and the Homeland Security Appropriations bill. This legislation includes over $31 million in investments for 41 lo  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation issued the following testimony by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang involving a hearing on July 18, 2023, entitled "Man and Machine: Artificial Intelligence on the Battlefield": * * * Chairman Gallagher, Ranking Member Khana, and distinguished members of the Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the critical role that   more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- 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 July 7, 2023 Area G-Operations: Last week, the Environmental Management Field Office approved N3B's corrective action plan from the federal readiness assessment for corrugated  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Sailed from Japan to Belgium, now on to Switzerland * * * What's 69 feet long, weighs 230 tons and took a slow boat from Japan to Switzerland - final destination Los Alamos? If you guessed a giant rotor that runs a pulse generator, you'd be right! This massive, copper-wound steel rotor, which recently made it to Antwerp, Belgium, is the central portion of the Lab's  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on July 25, 2023: Thanks to Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist-turned-freelance photographer Minesh Bacrania, science enthusiasts, history buffs and the just-plain curious can now view seldom-seen sights of the Manhattan Project in the pages of the July/August 2023 issue of Smithsonian Magazine and in a large-scale display in the windows of the former CB Fox Department Store (17  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following statement on July 27, 2023: * * * Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after voting to pass the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that authorizes $886.3 billion for New Mexico's military bases, national labs, and servicemembers. The NDAA sets the spending levels and policies for the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Energy (DOE), including nat  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, secured a number of West Virginia priorities in the Appropriations Committee markup of the Fiscal Year 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor HHS); Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies; Defense; and Homeland Security funding bills. The Senate Appropriation  more

HAMILTON, Ontario, July 28 -- McMaster University issued the following news: In January 1962, nearly eight years after being stripped of his security clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission, J. Robert Oppenheimer delivered three talks at McMaster as part of the Whidden Lectures. Oppenheimer's 1962 lecture series, "The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises for Physicists," addressed three areas of his concern, Space and Time, Atom and Field, and War and the Nations. The lectures were recorded, transcr  more

COCHRAN, Georgia, July 26 -- Middle Georgia State University issued the following Q&A on July 25, 2023, with history professor Javan Frazier: * * * The newly released film Oppenheimer, along with its star-studded cast, has taken social media by storm. Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the historical figure at the center of the film? We asked Dr. Javan Frazier, #MGA history professor, for an overview of the man known as the "father of the atomic bomb." Could you provide a brief overview of who J.  more

NEW YORK, July 27 -- NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, issued the following news release: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer continues to capture the imagination of audiences from the silver screen to primetime nightly news nearly 80 years after the events that changed the course of history. That's in no small part due to Universal Pictures' newest star-studded blockbuster "Oppenheimer" from visionary filmmaker Christopher Nolan. The film soared past a record-breaking $180 million worldwide   more

WASHINGTON, July 28 (TNSres) -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: Smithsonian magazine, the flagship publication of the Smithsonian Institution, today announced the launch of a new podcast, There's More to That. Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can-through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. On There's More to That, listeners will meet the magazine's journalists   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 27 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film "Oppenheimer," shattered expectations on opening weekend, bringing in $80.5 million. The biopic about the so-called "father of the atomic bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer, science director of the Manhattan Project during World War II, was Nolan's biggest non-Batman debut. But how accurate is the science and the history behind Oppenheimer's (portrayed in the film by Cillian Murphy)   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, July 27 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: In response to the United States Forest Service announcement that the cause of the 2022 Cerro Pelado fire on the Santa Fe National Forest was a "holdover fire" from a prescribed burn conducted in February 2022, WildEarth Guardians is calling on the agency to lead the development of a new national wildfire policy. "It is abundantly clear to everyone that the current wildfire paradigm in this country is flawe  more