WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- 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 and J. Plaue, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending January 28, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: J. Flora was on-site to observe activities of the federal Accident Investigation Board. This week, the Accident Investigation Board con  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Feb. 16 (TNSRep) -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release: * * * Contract expands on-site generation 17-fold, part of larger plans to double LANL electricity use this decade for nuclear weapons mission Study Group: NNSA is overpaying between $63 and $75 million to fast-track this project, avoid congressional scrutiny and DOE regulations, and skip environmental analysis. Payments should halt pending audit. * * * In a February 8, 2022 Inspection  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Feb. 19 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release on Feb. 18, 2022: Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) funds for February have been awarded to 11 companies in support of 61 new employees, 3 paid interns, and training for 38 incumbent workers, Economic Development Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today. The strength of JTIP is that it can be used by companies of different sizes across New Mexico, with rural/frontie  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Feb. 18 (TNSJou) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: * * * New findings enable first direct, real-time images of radiation-sensitive soft nanomaterials in organic solvents * * * With highly specialized instruments, we can see materials on the nanoscale - but we can't see what many of them do. That limits researchers' ability to develop new therapeutics and new technologies that take advantage of their unusual properties. Now, a   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Feb. 14 (TNSOps) -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release: The outgoing Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Dr. Charles Verdon, said on Tuesday (February 8, 2022) that NNSA has "challenges" to overcome in meeting its interim statutory warhead core ("pit") production deadlines at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), while expressing confidence that the "real goal" of producing 30 pits   more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 16 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Rice lab's RAMBO reveals unexpected influence on compound's crystal lattice * * * Phonons are collective atomic vibrations, or quasiparticles, that act as the main heat carriers in a crystal lattice. Under certain circumstances, their properties can be modified by electric fields or light. But until now, nobody noticed they can respond to magnetic fields as well. That may be because it takes a powe  more

LIVERMORE, California, Feb. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy (DOE) Project Leadership Institute (PLI) has selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Lara Leininger and Al Churby as 2022 cohort participants. Members of the PLI cohort have demonstrated their expertise as technical, business systems or project leaders, with significant experience and responsibility for project or organiza  more

MANCHESTER, England, Feb. 17 (TNSJou) -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2022: Scientists from The University of Manchester have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a multiple bond to just one other element. Enabling study of such a bonding interaction in isolation for the first time is a key breakthrough for nuclear waste clean-up. Reported in the journal, Nature Chemistry, a group of res  more