WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on Nov. 1, 2023: With 32 trails on Los Alamos National Laboratory property that make up a combined length of nearly 50 miles, employees have abundant access to the outdoors. About 25 of those trails, which span around 36 miles, are also open to the public, primarily near the community of White Rock. "The trails were created by the many different people who have occupied the Pajarito P  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- 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 October 13, 2023 N3B-Training: Last Friday, the causal analysis team investigating N3B's training issues transmitted its report to the Environmental Management Field Office (see 10  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- 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 October 6, 2023 Plutonium Facility and Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility (RLWTF)-Tritium: Last week, Triad personnel determined that routine tritium releases from   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Lujan, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Improve AI Testing and Evaluation Systems, Safeguard Americans Against Risks Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the Testing and Evaluation Systems for Trusted Artificial Intelligence (TEST) AI Act to improve the federa  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Acting Technical Director FROM: Clinton Jones and Frank Harshman, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Oak Ridge Activity Report for Week Ending September 29, 2023 Staff Activity: R. Eul, D. Minnema, J. Jarvis, B. Weathers, and D. Andersen traveled to Y-12 as part of a DOE complex-wide nuclear criticality safety (NCS)  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Sandia National Laboratories researchers took home six R&D 100 Awards, one joint award with Los Alamos National Laboratory and one special award for 2023 in the annual international technical competition that includes researchers from universities, corporations and government labs. "These achievements further Sandia's mission and demonstrate the impact that innova  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 2 -- The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International posted the following news release from its member company Los Alamos National Laboratory: The Earth Systems Observation Group, part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), conducts field campaigns that attempt to characterize methane leaks from oil and gas infrastructure. This initiative also considers methane emissions from dairies and other biogenic sources using sensor arrays equipped with trace g  more