LAS VEGAS, New Mexico, Nov. 4 (TNSRes) -- New Mexico Highlands University issued the following news: New Mexico Highlands University's grant portfolio rose sharply this year, growing from approximately $27 million in total value in 2019 to approximately $41.5 million in 2020, the largest yearly increase in the last five years. "We've seen a big shift in grants awarded to Highlands this year, a large uptick that doesn't have modern precedent at the university to my knowledge," said Ian Williams  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- 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 October 16, 2020 DNFSB Staff Activity: The staff continued remote interactions with Triad and NNSA personnel for a review of safety systems. This week, they discussed the El  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- 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 October 9, 2020 DNFSB Staff Activity: On Wednesday, a staff team commenced a series of remote interactions with Triad and NNSA personnel as part of a review of credited safe  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Nov. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A new agreement hopes to speed along a nuclear reactor technology that could be used to fuel deep-space exploration and possibly power human habitats on the Moon or Mars. Los Alamos National Laboratory has signed an agreement to license the "Kilopower" space reactor technology to Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes), also based in Los Alamos, NM. "We devel  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Nov. 4 (TNSRes) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news on Nov. 3: Daniel Tapia Takaki, associate professor of physics & astronomy at the University of Kansas, has created a new research team at KU to exploit the unique opportunities to research physics at high energies available at the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The largest and most complex particle accelerator in the world, the LHC is located in Geneva and operated by the European Org  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 5 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The School of Energy Resource's (SER) Center for Economic Geology Research (CEGR) at the University of Wyoming officially launched Phase 3 of the CarbonSAFE project last month. Funding for Phase 3 of the project was approved in April, when SER and its partners received a $15.4 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory. In addition to the $15.4 million i  more