LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Red dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Milky Way, making up 70% of all stars. But the physics of their interiors is not well understood. Heat is generated in the core and travels outward to the surface, but it is not clear whether that process occurs via radiation, convection or a combination of the two. The key factor determining whether r  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 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: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending August 19, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: Members of the Board's staff held a virtual meeting with Triad and NNSA Field Office Personnel as part of a review of the site-wide   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (TNStalk) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following Q&A with Laboratory Director Thom Mason on Sept. 8, 2022: * * * Laboratory Director Thom Mason first became involved with the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) as a user at the accelerator's Lujan Center in the 1990s, through the University of Toronto. He went on to lead the Spallation Neutron Source project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which included extended coll  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Los Alamos National Laboratory is leading a new research consortium funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to identify and characterize the nation's hundreds of thousands of undocumented orphaned wells and determine their full environmental impact with a focus on methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas. "These long-abandoned, orphaned oil and natural gas wells are scattered   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: * * * The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) estimates there are hundreds of thousands of undocumented orphaned oil and natural gas wells in the United States. Their locations are often difficult to determine because they were drilled before environmental laws were enacted and were never documented on public maps and records or ownership   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Had COVID-19 already? You're now less likely to get the new BA.5 Breakthrough infections with the newer subvariant were less likely for those with previous BA.1 or BA.2 infections A study conducted with data from Portugal shows that previous infections by the BA.1 and BA.2 Omicron COVID-19 variants, dominant earlier this year, confer protection against the highly transmiss  more

IRVINE, California, Sept. 8 (TNSres) -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release: * * * Researchers will explore new technologies for energy conversion, carbon capture and nuclear power * * * Teams led by University of California, Irvine chemists Shane Ardo, Sarah Finkeldei and Jenny Yang have received a combined $25 million from the U.S. Department of Energy under its Energy Frontier Research Centers program and Clean Energy Manufacturing initiative. The   more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Sept. 9 (TNSfund) -- The University of Minnesota issued the following news release: The University of Minnesota is one of only a few select institutions awarded two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs). Over four years, the Center for Interacting Geo-Processes in Mineral Carbon Storage will receive $11 million and the Center for Programmable Energy Catalysis will receive $10.6 million. The awards are part of a $540 million initiative  more