MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 30 (TNStalk) -- The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University issued the following news release: * * * An expert from RMIT University is available to talk to media about how while opportunities in the technology sector are expansive, Australia's approach to attracting, retaining and training workers is falling short. * * * "There is a massive skills shortage in the technology sector - requiring nearly a doubling of our tech workforce before 2030 to drive e  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 2 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The synthesis and study of radioactive compounds are naturally difficult due to the extreme toxicity of the materials involved, but also because of the cost and scarcity of research isotopes. Now, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and their collaborators at Oregon State University (OSU) have developed a new method to isolate  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- 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 August 12, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: F. Harshman, one of the Board's resident inspectors at Y-12, was onsite this week to benchmark oversight approaches for nuclear facil  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Oak Ride National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: Frank Harshman and Clinton Jones, resident inspectors SUBJECT: Oak Ridge Activity Report for Week Ending August 12, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: Frank Harshman traveled to Los Alamos National Laboratory this week for an objectivity visit. Building 9212: On Monday August 8, 2022 an unint  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist Elizabeth "Libby" Johnson (1921-1996), one of the world's first nuclear reactor operators, standardized the field of criticality safety with peers from ORNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her work came on the heels of two incidents involving nuclear materials that took the lives of two government researche  more

MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 30 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2022: * * * SLAC works with two small businesses to make its ACE3P software easier to use in supercomputer simulations for optimizing the shapes of accelerator structures. * * * Pioneering software called ACE3P was developed almost a quarter century ago to fine-tune the design of particle accelerators and their components. Now its latest incarnation is being adapted for s  more