WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * For 15 years, Shannon Griffin has volunteered to give free medical care to Hondurans, and this year she shared that experience with her son * * * An occupational health nurse at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Shannon Griffin first traveled to Olanchito, Honduras, in 2006. She'd come to the town of 100,000 people as the only nurse on a team of doctors that had volu  more

ATHENS, West Virginia, Sept. 27 -- Concord University issued the following news release: Concord University has been accepted as an institutional member of the COHERENT Collaboration at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Tulasi Subedi, a physicist in Concord's Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, will work with data from the Spallation Neutron Source which is funded from the U.S. Department of Energy. Concord University is one of only three undergraduate institutions in the intern  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 29 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $54 million in non-competitive financial assistance grants and cooperative agreements. The grants and agreements cover a broad range of key activities supporting the Office of Environmental Management (EM) cleanup program, from emergency response and regulatory oversight to lessons learned and stakeh  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist Alex Zylstra has been awarded the 2023 Edouard Fabre Prize for his experimental leadership of the milestone "Hybrid-E" campaign that achieved fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The inertial confinement fusion (ICF) campaign used increased laser energy to compress deuterium and t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- 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 September 1, 2023 Plutonium Facility-Safety Basis: Last Thursday, Triad submitted to the NNSA Field Office for approval an evaluation of the safety of the situation (ESS)   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- 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 September 8, 2023 Staff Activity: A staff team held a remote meeting with Triad and NNSA Field Office personnel to discuss initial conclusions from its review of the glove  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Experiment measures the energy spectrum of neutrons emitted from neutron-induced fission * * * The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding criticality safety and designing fast-neutron energy reactors. The Chi-Nu proje  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The 25th annual National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering was held August 6-18. Each year, graduate students visit Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories to learn how to use neutrons and X-rays to study energy and materials. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy The students have access to almost the entire suite of neutron instruments at S  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, NM - Third in a three-part series White Sands Detachment's roots run deep in southern New Mexico, but the detachment has begun planting seeds in the surrounding communities to keep its fleet support mission thriving in the high desert. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD)'s White Sands team abounds with seasoned scientists, engineers and oth  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: The separation and characterization of two irradiated uranium targets, a depleted uranium (DU) and a highly enriched uranium (HEU) target, was conducted in April of 2021. The two targets were assembled at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and irradiated using the critical assembly at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (N  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: In the high desert of Nevada, Elizabeth Silber watched NASA's Sample Return Capsule from OSIRIS-REx descend into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, but unlike most scientists, she wasn't there for the asteroid rocks. Silber, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, is working with researchers from Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, the Defense T  more