ARGONNE, Illinois, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Creating silicon carbide qubits at the nanoscale * * * With support from the Q-NEXT quantum center, scientists leverage nanoscale-research facilities to conduct pioneering precision studies of qubits in silicon carbide, leading to a better understanding of quantum devices and higher performance. Silicon carbide is becoming a major player on the quantum   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report on Jan. 16, 2024: TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending December 22, 2023 Waste Characterization, Reduction, and Repackaging Facility (WCRRF)-Emergency Preparedness: On Tuesday, Emergency Operations Center and WCRRF personnel perfo  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending December 29, 2023 Year in Review: A summary of the key developments of 2023. * A parallel federal and contractor readiness review took place to support the receipt and repackaging of large qu  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Improved mapping gives decision makers a new tool for protecting infrastructure as Arctic warms * * * New insights from artificial intelligence about permafrost coverage in the Arctic may soon give policy makers and land managers the high-resolution view they need to predict climate-change-driven threats to infrastructure such as oil pipelines, roads and national se  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release on Jan. 19, 2024: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) published a Notice of Availability (NOA)(https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/19/2024-00890/notice-of-availability-of-final-environmental-impact-statement-for-the-surplus-plutonium-disposition) in the Federal Register on Jan. 19, 2024, announcing the ava  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release on Jan. 18, 2024: Today the National Nuclear Security Administration announced the FY 2023 results of the performance of its Managing and Operating (M&O) partners in meeting NNSA's performance expectations. The results can be found in NNSA's Performance Evaluation Summaries posted on NNSA's website (https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/partnership-and-acquisition-ser  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted its Quantum on the Quad event to promote its Quantum Roadmap, a document that outlines how best to align the lab's world-class quantum facilities and expertise to accomplish DOE's mission. The roadmap represents a strategy to leverage the lab's 20-plus years of quantum R&D, more than 30 full-time quantu  more