WASHINGTON, July 29 (TNSjou) (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news on July 28, 2022: * * * ARM's first overseas atmospheric observatory, which operated from 1996 to 2014, also spurred international collaborations * * * One day in September 1996, atmospheric scientist Jim Mather looked out the window of a small plane and saw Manus Island loom into sight. This green-peaked dot of land in the Pacific Ocean,  more

AUBURN, Alabama, July 29 (TNSpar) -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * The agreement allows both institutions to identify opportunities for collaboration on joint research proposals. The agreement allows both institutions to identify opportunities for collaboration on joint research proposals. * * * Enhanced collaboration in research, education and workforce development. Those are the key tenets of a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) execu  more

LIVERMORE, California, July 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: A multi-institutional team of researchers and collaborators successfully executed an integrated vessel confinement system (VCS) experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), as part of an experimental campaign to study how nuclear materials react to high explosives without conducting a traditional nuclear test. The experiment - dubb  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- 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: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending July 1, 2022 Area G: Last Friday, the Environmental Management Field Office provided authorization for N3B to restart drill and drain operations at the Dome 231 Per  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- 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: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending July 8, 2022 Transuranic Waste Management: In response to the titanium powder flash event of 2020 and DNFSBTECH-46, Potential Energetic Chemical Reaction Events Involving   more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (N.M.-03), Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01), and Yvette Herrell (N.M.-02) are calling on President Joe Biden to approve a request from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to include flooding impacts in New Mexico's disaster declaratio  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release and letter on July 25, 2022: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) are calling on President Joe Biden to approve a request from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to include flooding impacts in New Mexico's dis  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following news release: * * * Biden-Harris Administration Continues Efforts to Address Growing Wildfire Threat Early season wildfires have already created a path of destruction across our country, with the total number of acres burned so far this year 72% above the 10-year average. Forecasters are predicting higher than normal fire potential for much of the West this year, in large part driven by the climate crisis which has exacerba  more