LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, May 15 (TNSAwa) -- The American Nuclear Society issued the following news: The American Nuclear Society has named the recipients of six awards that will be presented during the 2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting, which begins on June 14. The Society has also named eight new Fellows, who will be honored during the opening plenary session. HENRY DEWOLF SMYTH NUCLEAR STATESMAN AWARD Kristine L. Svinicki, ANS member since 1988 and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulat  more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, May 8 (TNSRes) -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: A prestigious internship with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, is helping a Kansas State University student achieve her career goals. Sarah Lamm, master's student in geology from Colby, began her remote internship in April with the Origins and Habitability Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the InVADER -- In-situ Vent Analysis Divebot for Exobiology Research -- project. She is conducting   more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- 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 23, 2021 Safety Basis: In March, N3B declared a potential inadequacy of the safety analysis (PISA) at Area G because the safety basis had dismissed helicopter crashes   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: With NETL funding, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are building a new prototype sensor for rapid in-field detection and characterization of rare earth elements (REEs) in fossil fuel-based resources and waste materials. REEs are vital in the construction of medical equipment, energy components, defense technologies, modern electronics and a ho  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) introduced the National Laboratory Biotechnology Research Act to create a National Laboratory Biotechnology Program within the Department of Energy (DOE) to fund research and development related to the COVID-19 pandemic and long-term biothreats. The Program is modeled after the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory (NVBL) that was created using funds from the Coron  more