Saturday - November 23, 2024
Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (Los Alamos) Newsletter for Sunday July 28, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Argonne-Led Research Working Toward Reducing Electronic Waste With Biodegradable Luminescent Polymers
ARGONNE, Illinois, July 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on July 22, 2024: * * * The discovery has the potential to reduce electronic waste and develop new applications for luminescent polymers The team manipulated the chemical composition of materials to make the polymers more recyclable. * * * From your car's navigation display to the screen you are reading this on, luminescent polymers -- a class of flexible mate  more

Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending July 5, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for week ending July 5, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending July 5, 2024 Area G-Safety Basis: The Environmental Management Chief of Nuclear Safety and supporting headquarters staff were on site Monday through Wednesday to hold   more

Machine Learning Advances the Clean-Energy Economy
WASHINGTON, July 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Los Alamos Scientists Used Machine Learning To Explore The Effects Of Cushion Gasses On Underground Hydrogen Storage * * * Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing powerful machine learning models -- an application of artificial intelligence -- to simulate underground hydrogen storage operations under various cushion gas scenarios. This will play a v  more

Savannah River Site Completes D&R Phase for Plutonium Processing Facility
AIKEN, South Carolina, July 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release on July 24, 2024: The Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS) has reached a major milestone in the construction of a plutonium pit production facility at the site located near Aiken, S.C. After 18 months of "hands on" work involving local trade unions, the dismantlement and removal (D&R) of commodities and equipment throughout the Savannah River Plutonium Processing   more