LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 13 (TNSCapV) -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, issued the following joint news release with 60 organizations: More than 60 national and regional organizations on Wednesday issued a joint statement calling for the elimination of the 400 land-based nuclear missiles now armed and on hair-trigger alert in the United States. The statement, titled "A Call to Elim  more

LIVERMORE, California, Jan. 11 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers and a multi-institutional team of scientists have developed a highly detailed, machine learning-backed multiscale model revealing the importance of lipids to the signaling dynamics of RAS, a family of proteins whose mutations are linked to numerous cancers. Published by the Proceedings of t  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- 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 December 10, 2021 DNFSB Staff Activity: Staff members W. Dumayas, P. Migliorini, P. Natividad, and J. Plaue were on site to perform a review of construction quality lessons learned for fir  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- 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 December 17, 2021 DNFSB Staff Activity: On Monday, Triad personnel remotely briefed members of the Board's staff on the interim risk assessment results for the Plutonium Facility Seismic P  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Jan. 15 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The New Mexico Economic Development Department, Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, and Environment Department entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories to build a zero-carbon hydrogen economy not only in New Mexico but across the United States. The MOU leverages their respective areas of   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Jan. 15 -- The New Mexico Department of Environment issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2022: The New Mexico Economic Development Department, Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, and Environment Department entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories to build a zero-carbon hydrogen economy not only in New Mexico but across the United States. The MOU leverages their respective a  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has reached a pivotal milestone on the Los Alamos Pit Production Project, approving the start of construction of the Decontamination and Decommissioning Subproject. The D&D Subproject is the first of five subprojects to begin construction under the effort to restart plutonium pit production at Los   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Jan. 13 (TNSOps) -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following joint news release with 61 organizations: More than 60 national and regional organizations on Wednesday issued a joint statement calling for the elimination of the 400 land-based nuclear missiles now armed and on hair-trigger alert in the United States. The statement, titled "A Call to Eliminate ICBMs," warns that "intercontinental ballistic missiles are uniquely dangerous, greatly increasing the chanc  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Jan. 13 (TNSJou) -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital issued the following news release on Jan. 12, 2022: Prior infection with coronaviruses that cause the common cold impedes the antibody immune response against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. The results from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital appeared in print today in the journal Cell Host and Microbe. "The findings highlight an additional factor that contributes to the range of COVID-19 sym  more