WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for Oct. 4, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: E. Freeman and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending October 4, 2024 Weapons Production: The NNSA Field Office diamond stamped the first production unit of a plutonium pit for the current mission at the Plutonium Fac  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for Sept. 27, 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 27, 2024 Plutonium Facility-Infrastructure: Last Thursday, there was a loss of cascading differential pressure for the confinement ventilation system o  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Observatory research points to extreme cosmic accelerator as source of galactic cosmic rays * * * At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers are getting a look into a violent mystery in the Milky Way galaxy. An international research team co-led by Los Alamos National Labora  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 25 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: * * * JTIP applicants are hiring and training up to 117 trainees and interns * * * The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) approved Job Training Incentive Program funding in October to six businesses in Albuquerque, Santa Teresa, Sunland Park, and Los Alamos to add employees or train existing workers with modernized skills, EDD Cabinet Secretary-Designate Rob Bl  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all. The agency's Open-Source Tools, Frameworks, and Libraries awards provide support for the sustainable development of tools freely available to everyone and critical for the goals of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. "We received   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Oct. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Nuclear fission when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since, fission is a constant factor in modern life, used in everything from nuclear medicine to power-generating nuclear reactors. However, it is a force of nature that still contains myster  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Russ Nelson Ian Wagner, a doctoral candidate of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected to receive the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. The honor resulted from Wagner's proposed research project to study plasma-jet driven magneto-inertial fusion, to be conducted at Los  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: SANTA FE, NM Business owners impacted by the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and subsequent flooding can receive tips at an Oct. 23 workshop on how to open a claim, learn more about what qualifies for compensation and begin the claims process on the spot. The Advocate team at the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office is partnering with the Las Vegas Chamber o  more