UPTON, New York, Nov. 14 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2022: A new study led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has measured how long it takes for several kinds of exotic nuclei to decay. The paper, published today in Physical Review Letters, marks the first experimental result from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a DOE Office of Science user fac  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (TNSper) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: They believed the work was important. They felt they had a great job. They knew it could be dangerous, but they trusted the layers of safety and protection. And they considered their coworkers family. Once the size of a small city, the Rocky Flats Plant where they spent a significant part of their lives is gone. On Oct. 5, 2022, Rocky Flats Site Manager Andy Keim and a team of LM a  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2022: A new study led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has measured how long it takes for several kinds of exotic nuclei to decay. The paper, published today in Physical Review Letters, marks the first experimental result from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a DOE Office of Science user f  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have discovered that ions behave differently in fusion reactions than previously expected, thus providing important insights for the future design of a laser-fusion energy source. The findings are featured in a new paper in the Nov. 14 issue of Nature Physics and is titled "Evidence for   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- 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 28, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: Staff member R. Jackson was onsite to attend a workshop on the Plutonium Facility Seismic Performance Reassessment Project. Staff me  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Nov. 18 (TNSfund) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Michigan State University's Andrew Christlieb is leading a massive U.S. Department of Energy project to help deliver on the not-yet-realized promise of nuclear fusion. That promise? To create an unmatched source of affordable and sustainable energy. Christlieb, an MSU Foundation Professor in the College of Natural Science, is now the director of a Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Ce  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Nov. 16 (TNSfund) -- New Mexico State University issued the following news on Nov. 15, 2022: New Mexico State University's Departments of Biology and Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology are collaborating with Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey and others on a project titled "Prepping for Disaster Ecology: HSI-based training for managing climate change impacts on migratory birds." "Disaster ecology is a term that we're hearing more of today be  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration partnered with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) to exercise two rapid response capabilities critical to national security: the Mobile Uranium and Mobile Plutonium Facilities. This year, interagency partners practiced deploying NNSA's Mobi  more