ARGONNE, Illinois, Oct. 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on Oct. 9, 2024: * * * Applications include medical diagnostics, national security and particle physics * * * Discover how quantum shells might change the game for high-resolution and ultrafast scintillator imaging with many applications. Scintillators are detectors that make high-energy X-rays or particles visible through flashes of light to form an image. Th  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 11 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Kristen Erickson-Donadee, of Folsom, has been appointed Director of the California Department of Child Support Services. Erickson-Donadee has been Chief Deputy Director at the California Department of Child Support Services since 2020 and has served in several roles there since 2009, including Chief Counsel, As  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (TNSrep) -- - The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48194) on Oct. 3, 2024, entitled "The U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise: Background and Possible Issues for Congress" by defense policy analyst Anya L. Fink. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Created in 2000, the Department of Energy's (DOE's) semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is responsible for managing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear warheads that the Department  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (TNSrep) -- - The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48194) on Oct. 3, 2024, entitled "The U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise - Background and Possible Issues for Congress:" (Continued from Part 1 of 3) * * * Nuclear Security Enterprise Facilities Title 50, Section 2501 of the U.S. Code (50 U.S.C. Sec.2501) defines the NNSA "nuclear security enterprise" (NSE) as "the physical facilities, technology, and human capital of the national security l  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for Sept. 20, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: E. Freeman and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending September 20, 2024 Plutonium Facility-Fire Protection: Last Tuesday, during a weekly surveillance of one of the safety-class diesel fire water pumps, workers saw  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Analysis uses Bennu trajectory in effort to extend the Standard Model of physics * * * In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample itself, the data generated by OSIRIS-REx might also present an opportunity to probe new phy  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following article: * * * Researchers will pursue both fundamental and applied projects with this support * * * By Sarah Wong, PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will be embarking on two new materials projects in fusion energy sciences. The support for these projects comes from the Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) and Advanced Research Projects Ag  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: SFI External Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to computational and fundamental physics, especially to lattice QCD and computational biology, including computations of the QCD equation of state at finite temperature, the neutron electric dipole moment, and   more

AIKEN, South Carolina, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: A Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) employee was recently selected to participate in the Weapon Intern Program (WIP), an 11-month residential educational program hosted by Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) Design Authority Engineer Garrett Harper became the latest participant from the Savannah   more

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, Oct. 10 -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: Some graduate students in Tennessee Tech University's Department of Chemistry will have a new way to gain valuable pre-professional experience, thanks to a groundbreaking partnership with the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. In a collaboration spearheaded by Tech's David Dan, an assistant professor who teaches radiochemistry, Consolidated Nuclear Security, which operates Y-12 for  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -- The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Research and Development issued the following news: By Tristan Horrom, VA Research Communications New Mexico VA Healthcare System researchers were part of a team of experts who revealed potential chronic health problems linked to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. Their review article compiled evidence that the metal gadolinium can remain in the body and lead to multiple conditions, such as kidney injury, deb  more