LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, Jan. 12 -- The American Nuclear Society issued the following news: The Department of Energy, in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas A&M University, will conduct a biweekly webinar series aimed at providing a broad overview of nuclear waste management and disposal in the United States as well as the latest research activities. The target audience is undergraduate and graduate students in science, engineering, policy, sociotechnical, and soci  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report on Jan. 9, 2024: TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending December 15, 2023 Staff Activity: M. Bradisse and R. Wu were on site providing resident inspector support. M. Bradisse also attended the training course Safety Culture for Fron  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Innovative framework that generates images from nothing can enable new scientific applications * * * A new, potentially revolutionary artificial intelligence framework called "Blackout Diffusion" generates images from a completely empty picture, meaning that the machine-learning algorithm, unlike other generative diffusion models, does not require initiating a "rand  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and cooperating agencies will hold a public meeting Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, from 4-7 pm, regarding the Los Alamos National Laboratory Electrical Power Capacity Upgrade Project Draft Environmental Assessment (DOE/EA-2199) (EA), and will hold a second public comment period for the document.  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2024: Sandia National Laboratories' economic impact for fiscal year 2023 reached an all-time high of nearly $4.8 billion, which was $559 million more than in 2022. The impact is evident in the 1,200 new jobs added in the last year, the $114 million in gross receipts taxes paid to the state and the $1.08 billion paid to the small business suppliers who h  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL's Christina Wildfire, Ph.D., and Don Ferguson, Ph.D., researchers who are driving technological breakthroughs to advance the nation's decarbonatization efforts, have been selected to serve as Fellows in the 2024 Cohort of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP). Named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Los Alamos National Laborat  more