WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news on Sept. 13, 2021: As scientists ramped up their plans to conduct the first test of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, planned for mid-July 1945, a small cadre of physicians rushed to complete a report on the possible health effects of the blast. Capt. James F. Nolan, MD, had been put in charge of health and safety monitoring at the so-called Trinity test, and on the morning of June 1  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- 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 August 27, 2021 Transuranic Waste Management: Last Friday, N3B and Central Characterization Project personnel completed a cold mockup demonstration of transuranic waste mobile loading ope  more