WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the text of the following letter: March 30, 2021 The Honorable Joyce Connery Chair Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20004 Dear Chair Connery: Enclosed is the Department of Energy's (DOE or Department) responsive report to the questions posed in the Board's September 24, 2020, request letter and as amplified by its Technical Report 46, Potential Energetic Chemical R  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Advanced Data Analytics for Proliferation Detection (ADAPD) program held a two-day virtual technical exchange meeting recently. The goal of the meeting was to highlight the science-based and data-driven analysis work conducted by ADAPD to advance the state-of-the-art to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and develop AI-enabled systems to   more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- 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 April 16, 2021 Transuranic Waste Management: On Thursday, Triad's causal investigation team out-briefed senior laboratory leadership and multiple leaders from NNSA Headquarte  more

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date. "This work synthesizes improvements over the last decade in climate models, ice sheet and glacier models, and estimates of future greenhouse gas  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 4 (TNSPer) -- Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory issued the following news release: The director of the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has been named a member of the National Academy of Sciences, an esteemed designation that recognizes his distinguished career in physics. Greg Boebinger joins eight current and retired Florida State University faculty as members of a national academy, inclu  more

NAMBE, New Mexico, May 8 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) wrapped up the May state work period, which included a tour across southern New Mexico and meetings with New Mexico local leaders. While traveling, Senator Lujan met with mayors and local leaders from Alamogordo, Las Cruces, Sunland Park, Anthony, Deming, Mesilla, Silver City and Grant County. He capped off the week with a virtual meeting with Los Alamos County Co  more