WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense issued the following testimony by Xavier Beale, vice president for operations at Newport News Shipbuilding, for an Oct. 26, 2021, hearing entitled "Workforce Development and the Department of Defense": * * * Thank you for this opportunity to share my thoughts with you today about the very important topic of workforce development. I appreciate your interest in the workforce development challenges our industry faces and I am  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations issued the following testimony by Rhea Moss-Christian, chairperson of the Marshall Islands National Nuclear Commission, as part of an Oct. 21, 2021, remote hearing entitled "Runit Dome and the U.S Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands": * * * Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the Subcommittee. It is an honor to testify before you in this virtual hearing, today. I appreciate this opportunity to s  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- 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 October 15, 2021 Area G: On Monday, a four member team commenced an Implementation Verification Review for four recently approved Justifications for Continued Operations (JCO) that apply to  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 2 (TNSJou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: A new study shows climate change can have cascading effects on forests. Using computer modeling, researchers from North Carolina State University, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and other institutions found increased temperatures during an historic drought in California contributed to the death of large numbers of giant pine trees by speeding up the life cycle of a tree-killing bee  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Scientists from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories have just begun the third phase of a years-long experiment to understand how salt and very salty water behave near hot nuclear waste containers in a salt-bed repository. Salt's unique physical properties can be used to provide safe disposal of radioactive waste, said Kristopher Kuhlman,   more