WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Investments Heinrich Championed Support Service Members, Defense Installations and National Labs, Clean Energy, Water Infrastructure, Economic Development, Education, Health Care, and Workforce Development Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced the bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee passage of the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Defense, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for week ending July 12, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending July 12, 2024 Area G-Operations: On Monday, N3B personnel stopped work on corrugated metal pipe (CMP) size reduction activities in the Dome 375 Perma-Con due to conce  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Well retrofits and hydrogen are key to cleaner energy * * * Two new papers, both authored by Mohamed Mehana of the Earth and Environmental Sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, explore the feasibility of well retrofitting and clean hydrogen production from fossil fuels. "With no action taken, over 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide will leak int  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the following letter on July 25, 2024: * * * To: The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-1000 Dear Secretary Granholm: The Nevada National Security Site contractor, Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS), is executing the Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE) projects at the Principal Underground Lab  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Fierro helps develop parts that are stronger, lighter and with less waste * * * A new open-source code developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory accurately simulates the performance of manufactured parts accounting for the microstructure to make them stronger, safer, and better-performing. Called Fierro, the code performs multiscale and multiphysics  more