AUBURN, Alabama, Aug. 22 -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news on Aug. 21, 2023: By Joe McAdory Almost 60 students were presented with cyber security challenges in the form of puzzles to develop skills fundamental to practitioners on August 19-20. Cyber Fire Puzzles is hosted by the Auburn University/Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Cyber Security Sciences Institute (CSSI), the Auburn Cyber Research Center (ACRC) and the Auburn University Ethical Hacking  more

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, Aug. 23 -- The Defense Threat Reduction Agency issued the following news release: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) Chemical and Biological Technologies Department in its role as the Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) for Chemical and Biological Defense, an integral component of the Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP), sponsors the Joint Science and Technology Institute (JSTI) East and West residential programs, which are fully funded for al  more

AIKEN, South Carolina, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: Senior members of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Department of Energy (DOE) leadership teams; U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), Chairman of the House Appropriations Energy and Water Development (HEWD) Subcommittee; and U.S. Representative Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) were among the visitors who toured the Savannah River Site (SRS) on August 10.   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending August 4, 2023 Staff Activity: H. Dacayanan was on site to attend the project review discussed below. Plutonium Facility-Infrastructure: NNSA personnel were on site to perform a   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending July 28, 2023 Staff Activity: M. Bradisse, R. Eul, D. Minnema, and B. Weathers were on site for another visit supporting their review of nuclear criticality safety (see 3/24/2023   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Guaranteeing reliability enhances hydrogen's role in energy transition * * * Mathematical modeling can show how to safely blend hydrogen with carbon dioxide for transport in existing pipeline systems. A secure and reliable transition to hydrogen is one of the proposed solutions for the shift to a net-zero-carbon economy. "Mixing hydrogen into a natural gas pipelin  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Approach is a step toward using single photons in quantum communication and information processing * * * A new approach to quantum light emitters generates a stream of circularly polarized single photons, or particles of light, that may be useful for a range of quantum information and communication applications. A Los Alamos National Laboratory team stacked two diff  more