WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Three Los Alamos scientists have been elected fellows by the American Physical Society. The new APS fellows are Mary Hockaday, division leader for Nuclear Engineering and Nonproliferation; Nicole Lloyd-Ronning, astrophysicist in the Computational Physics and Methods group; and Rolando Somma, formerly with the Theoretical Division. "We congratulate our technical staff member  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (TNSawa) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Five Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have received Laboratory Fellows' Prizes: Tariq Aslam received the Fellows' Prize for Research, and Anemarie DeYoung, Juan Duque, Brian Jensen and Robert Steiner received the Fellows' Prize for Leadership. "I congratulate each of this year's Fellows' Prize recipients for their contributions to research and leadership," said Jo  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 28 (TNSgov) -- The Los Alamos Study Group posted the following news release on Oct. 27, 2022: Today the Department of Defense (DoD) released its long-awaited National Defense Strategy (NDS), Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), and Missile Defense Review (MDR). In the interest of time, this press release addresses the NPR only. Detailed comparison with past NPRs will also need to come later, as may be warranted. A classified version of the NPR has long been available to  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2022: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned alleged racist threats and violence targeting student athletes at a high school football game in Council Bluffs, Iowa. CAIR also condemned reported racist remarks targeting Native American student athletes at a middle school football game in New M  more

GOLDEN, Colorado, Oct. 26 (TNSres) -- Colorado School of Mines issued the following news: * * * Professor Jeff King awarded $800,000 by Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy University Program * * * Jeff King, professor of nuclear engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded $800,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy for research that will aid in the development of nuclear microreactors. King will use neutron radiography techniques to provide necessary data for understanding the  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 29 -- Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, issued the following news release: Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) announced that his office secured $1,749,997 in federal funding for the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to train the next generation of nuclear security science and technology leaders through the Consortium on Nuclear Security Technologies (CONNECT) program. These funds, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy, will help UTSA recruit and retain students i  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 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 October 7, 2022 Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility (RLWTF): The contractor team assessing readiness to restart transuranic waste drumming operations at RLW  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Los Alamos National Laboratory has named Unica Viramontes associate Laboratory director for the newly created Defense Protection Program. In this role, she will be responsible for the leadership, management, oversight, strategic planning and execution of the Laboratory's safeguards, security and emergency management portfolio. Viramontes has more than 20 years of profession  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: A new multilaboratory effort funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is underway, creating a machine-learning tool to revolutionize the future of vaccine development, rapidly choosing a suitable vaccine platform for any viral and bacterial pathogen. Led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Rapid Assessment of Platform Technologies to Expedite Response (RAPTER) tool will quant  more