ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 20 -- Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller issued the following news on Nov. 19: Today, the federal government announced that Albuquerque has made the final six cities in consideration to be the permanent home of the new U.S. Space Command. Back in May of this year, the U.S. Air Force officially began location exploration, and shortly after, Mayor Tim Keller and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham submitted a letter of interest proposing Albuquerque as the ideal location. Kirt  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Nov. 20 -- Basin Electric Power Cooperative issued the following news release: The project is investigating the feasibility of underground carbon dioxide emissions storage from coal-based electric generation facilities. The Wyoming CarbonSAFE Project, located at Basin Electric's Dry Fork Station near Gillette, Wyoming, officially launched Phase 3 in October. The School of Energy Resource's (SER) Center for Economic Geology Research (CEGR) at the University of Wyoming (  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: A team of current and former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and IBM scientists won the annual "Test of Time" award at the 2020 Supercomputing Conference on Nov. 19 for a paper outlining LLNL's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. Published by the Supercomputing Conference in 2002, the paper was the first peer-reviewed overview article to disclose deta  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- 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 30, 2020 DNFSB Staff Activity: The staff completed a fourth week of interactions with Triad and NNSA personnel for its remote review of credited safety systems. Thi  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Nov. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Los Alamos National Laboratory announced an industry-first computational storage deployment targeting a next-generation storage system for HPC sited at Los Alamos. This new system will support the National Nuclear Security Administration's Advanced Simulation and Computing program responsible for ensuring the performance, safety, and reliability of nuclear weapons  more

LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, Nov. 17 -- The American Nuclear Society issued the following news: American Nuclear Society Fellows hold the highest grade of membership in the Society. The following new Fellows were recognized Monday during the opening plenary session of the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting. David L. Aumiller, ANS member since 1995 and senior advisor at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, for innovative and significant contributions to the development, verification, qualification, and appl  more