RICHLAND, Washington, June 5 (TNSAwa) -- Washington State University's Tri-Cities Campus issued the following news release: A Washington State University Tri-Cities history professor is part of a history film focusing on the Manhattan Project that was recently nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Daytime Non-Fiction Special." Robert Franklin, assistant director of the WSU Tri-Cities Hanford History Project and teaching assistant professor of history, was one of a   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Humberto "Tito" Silva III, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been named Engineer of the Year by the world's largest aerospace technical society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Selected by a committee of his peers, Silva was cited for improving failure-rate predictions of aerospace flight systems as they reenter Earth's atmosphe  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- 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: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending May 14, 2021 Transuranic Waste Management: Last Friday, Triad released LA-UR-21-24378, Analysis of an Unexpected Reaction Observed During Drumout Activities, Feb. 26, 2021, their final repo  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, May 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: All of the current U.S. nuclear deterrent is composed of weapon systems that are designed to fly, primarily on ballistic missiles, but also carried by aircraft. Part of the stockpile stewardship mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory is assuring that the weapons will work as designed throughout the "stockpile to target sequence" that includes the flight componen  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 3 (TNSPol) -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release on June 1, 2021: The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) fiscal year 2022 (FY22) budget request, delivered after business hours on the Friday preceding Memorial Day weekend, continues the Trump policy of building two separate factories to produce plutonium cores ("pits") for nuclear warheads -- a smaller one at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a larger   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 3 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have built the world's smallest and best acoustic amplifier. And they did it using a concept that was all but abandoned for almost 50 years. According to a paper published May 13 in Nature Communications, the device is more than 10 times more effective than the earlier versions. The design and future research dire  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) announced that the Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University (NMSU) will receive $1 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to encourage the growth of new high-tech jobs in New Mexico. The award is part of DOE's Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC). "Clean energy market forces - and the economic opp  more