LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 18 -- Utah State University issued the following news: The decision to use military force, along with the type of military force, is an ethical quandary as old as time. War in Ukraine, Gaza and other areas of the globe remind us of this recurring conundrum, along with the pivotal 20th century decision to construct a hydrogen bomb, depicted in the recent blockbuster "Oppenheimer." The Utah State University community is invited to explore these issues in depth with the independ  more

LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, Oct. 21 -- The American Nuclear Society issued the following news: In the last few years, public investment in both new and existing nuclear technology has expanded alongside a rise in public support and acceptance. Now is the perfect time for the nuclear industry to seize this momentum by coming together to maintain current nuclear plants, expanding the nuclear workforce, strengthening the supply chain and infrastructure, increasing public- and private-sector investme  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 28 New Mexico counties and neighboring counties in Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah of the Nov. 17, 2023, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- 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 15, 2023 Staff Activity: M. Bradisse was on site this week providing resident inspector augmentation. Support activities included plutonium facility walkdowns, meetings   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- 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 22, 2023 Staff Activity: C. Beaty, M. Bradisse, D. Bullen, J. Heath, and L. Lin were on site this week as part of their review of decontamination and decommissioning act  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- 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 29, 2023 Staff Activity: Staff from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of the Inspector General were on site Tuesday for site familiarization and oversight of th  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Multiyear efforts include partnerships with national laboratories and universities * * * Projects that seek to deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning for science and energy have been bolstered by Department of Energy Office of Science funding in recent weeks. Three Los Alamos National Laboratory projects use the cutting-edge tools to improve the perform  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Mike Petrowski, who works in performance assurance at Los Alamos National Laboratory, wants to understand the "why" behind our mistakes -- at least the ones with serious consequences. So in 1979, outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant reactor partially melted down and led to the release of radioactive material into the environment,   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Ruth Skoug, of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Space Science and Applications group, was named fellow by the American Geophysical Union (AGU); Skoug is among 63 new fellows this year. Since 1962, AGU has elected fewer than 0.1 percent of its members to join this prestigious group of individuals. She was selected for her far-reaching impact to experimental space plasma phys  more

ITHACA, New York, Oct. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution service and open-access archive for scholarly articles. The funding will allow the growing repository with more than 2 million articles to migrate to the cloud and modernize its code to ensure reliability, fault tolerance and a  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Mark Compton, executive director at the American Exploration and Mining Association, involving a hearing on Sept. 28, 2023, entitled "To Examine Opportunities to Counter the People's Republic of China's Control of Critical Mineral Supply Chains": * * * I. Introduction I want to start by thanking the Committee for highlighting mineral security issues and your work to create an environment  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 21 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Neil Jhurani The United States depends on well-trained experts and advanced technology to address threats to our safety. Whether in aviation systems, cybersecurity or weapons detection, the country depends on national security for a safer world. Texas A&M University students tackled some of these national security issues last weekend during the College of Engineering's Aggie  more