WASHINGTON, Feb. 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 February 5, 2021 Transuranic Waste Management: On Wednesday, Triad management transmitted to the NNSA Field Office for approval three evaluations of the safety of the situa  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Feb. 23 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A team of quantum theorists seeking to cure a basic problem with quantum annealing computers--they have to run at a relatively slow pace to operate properly--found something intriguing instead. While probing how quantum annealers perform when operated faster than desired, the team unexpectedly discovered a new effect that may account for the imbalanced di  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A revolutionary machine-learning (ML) approach to simulate the motions of atoms in materials such as aluminum is described in this week's Nature Communications journal. This automated approach to "interatomic potential development" could transform the field of computational materials discovery. "This approach promises to be an important building block for the study   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Feb. 26 -- The New Mexico Department of Environment issued the following news release on Feb. 25, 2021: The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) filed a civil complaint in First Judicial District Court against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for failing to make progress on clean-up of contamination as required by the 2016 Compliance Order on Consent (2016 Consent Order) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). NMED found the DOE Los Alamos Field Office's 2021 Plan  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Feb. 27 -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday signed House Bill 11 into law, delivering $200 million in grants to support New Mexico businesses to ease the hiring or rehiring of employees. "New Mexico will continue to get meaningful financial assistance out the door to businesses all across the state," said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. "Our economy will bounce back. And businesses will get ba  more

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Feb. 25 -- Northern Arizona University issued the following news: An interdisciplinary research team at Northern Arizona University is working with partners throughout the country to revamp how vaccinations are delivered--a timely project that, once successful, could be applied to the coming COVID-19 vaccine and inoculations against new organisms that humanity may face in the future. Jennifer Martinez, a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science a  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 27 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: In a twist befitting the strange nature of quantum mechanics, physicists have discovered the Hall effect -- a characteristic change in the way electricity is conducted in the presence of a magnetic field -- in a nonmagnetic quantum material to which no magnetic field was applied. The discovery by researchers from Rice University, Austria's Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Switzerland's Paul Scherre  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 25 (TNSRes) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Dr. Shikha Prasad and Dr. Jean Ragusa, are recipients of development fellowships from the 2020-21 edition of the Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office Collaborative Research Program with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The Collaborative Research Program was designed to increase the number and depth of research collaborations that benefit the A&M System,  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 26 (TNSJou) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Texas A&M University researchers have recently shown superior performance of a new oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloy they developed for use in both fission and fusion reactors. Dr. Lin Shao, professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, worked alongside research scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Hokkaido University to create the next generation o  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 25 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Robert "Holt" Mendleski, a postbaccalaureate undergraduate in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been interning with Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) criticality safety division since summer 2020. "I felt like I was in over my head from the start," Mendleski said. "But it has been really awesome. They are really receptive. It's been a super positive  more