TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 26 -- Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory issued the following news release on June 27: Thank goodness for the Earth's crust: It is, after all, that solid, outermost layer of our planet that supports everything above it, including us. But much of what happens below that layer remains a mystery, including the fate of sections of crust that vanish back into the Earth. Now a team of geochemists based at the Florida State University-headqua  more

LIVERMORE, California, June 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on June 22: To meet the needs of tomorrow's supercomputers, the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has broken ground on its Exascale Computing Facility Modernization (ECFM) project, which will substantially upgrade the mechanical and electrical capabilities of the Livermore Computing Center. The   more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: J.W. Plaue and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending June 5, 2020 COVID-19 Impacts: The nuclear facilities continue with routine entry into their normal operation modes as defined in their safety bases to support programmatic  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, June 24 -- Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news release: The U.S. Congress is currently debating whether to build and operate a plutonium pit-production factory in South Carolina. It would be the country's second; the first is in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Since the end of the Cold War, the Los Alamos National Laboratory has been the sole U.S. center of expertise and producer of "pits," the critical compo  more