WASHINGTON, May 13 (TNSPer) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: A random finger on a map in 1978 started Dave Traub on a long career and a new hometown. Traub, most recently the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act Title II manager for the Office of Legacy Management (LM) Strategic Partner RSI EnTech, retired in February after working for a succession of U.S. Department of Energy contractors in Grand Junction, Colorado. Traub said a coll  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued the following testimony by Ingrid Kolb, director of the Office of Management at the Energy Department, involving a video conference hearing on March 8, 2022, entitled "Federal Climate Adaptation and Resilience for the 21st Century": * * * It is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the Department of Energy's ("the Department" or "DOE") approach to addressing the threat of climate change to the Department's   more

PASADENA, California, May 13 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: The black hole at the center of our galaxy is the subject of a groundbreaking new image from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. As the Event Horizon Telescope collected data for its remarkable new image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a legion of other telescopes including three NASA X-ray observatories in space was also watching. Astronomers are using these observations to learn mo  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 13 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The January 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano in Tonga was the largest volcanic eruption in the 21st century, and the largest recorded since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. New research by an international team from 17 countries including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist Keehoon Kim demonstrates that, based on atmospher  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- 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 April 22, 2022 DNFSB Activity: On Wednesday, the Board members received a briefing from Triad and NNSA Field Office personnel on their actions to improve the safety of transur  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) introduced the Hermit's Peak Fire Assistance Act to allow for additional damages to be paid to New Mexico residents and business owners impacted by the Hermit's Peak Fire or the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fires. Beginning April 6, 2022, the Hermit's Peak Fire started as a result of an approved prescribed fire pl  more

MONTREAL, Quebec, May 11 (TNSJou) -- The University of Montreal issued the following news release: Physicist Andrea Bianchi has observed the "quantum spin liquid" state in a magnetic material created in his lab. It's not every day that someone comes across a new state of matter in quantum physics, the scientific field devoted to describing the behaviour of atomic and subatomic particles in order to elucidate their properties. Yet this is exactly what an international team of researchers that   more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on May 7, 2022: * * * Biden Administration Responds to Early Wildfires in New Mexico Early season wildfires in New Mexico and across the Southwest are devastating communities and ravaging landscapes. So far this year, the number of acres burned across the United States is approximately 78% above the 10-year average. Much of the West, Plains, and Texas remain in a historic drought with above average temperatures and below nor  more