LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ). This advancement puts researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, an important goal of the NIF, and opens access to a new experimental regime.   more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ). This advancement puts researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, an important goal of the NIF, and opens access to a new experimental regime.   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 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: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending July 30, 2021 DNFSB Staff Activity: On Thursday, members of the DNFSB staff held a call with NNSA Field Office and Headquarters personnel to discuss the response to DNFSB-TECH-46. On Tuesd  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Aug. 20 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division (ORD), a division of the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), announced the award recipients of the Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF) for the 2021 (fiscal year 2022) grant cycle. The first-of-its-kind Outdoor Equity Fund was created to increase equitable access to the outdoors for all youth. The grant supports programming that pro  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, chairwoman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2021: Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) in Livermore, CA announced that an experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) "made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ). This advancement puts researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, an important goal of the NIF,   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Sandia National Laboratories and its nuclear security enterprise partners recently completed the first production unit of a weapon assembly responsible for key operations of the W88 nuclear warhead. "The arming, fuzing and firing assembly is the brains of the warhead," said Dolores Sanchez, senior manager of the W88 Alteration 370 for Sandia. "It looks for the cor  more