LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - 2019 Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prize recognizes nuclear power potential in space * * * Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers Patrick McClure and Bob Reid were honored last week with the 2019 Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prize for their work in developing small, cost-effective, and safe nuclear reactor designs to power future habitats in space,  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee on Energy issued the following testimony by Karen S. Evans, assistant secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response at the Energy Department, at a hearing entitled "Future of Electricity Delivery: Modernizing and Securing our Nation's Electricity Grid": "It is an honor and a privilege to serve at the Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) as Assistant Secretary for the Office of  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee on Energy issued the following testimony by Juan Torres, associate laboratory director for energy systems integration at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, at a hearing entitled "Future of Electricity Delivery: Modernizing and Securing our Nation's Electricity Grid": "Thank you for this opportunity to discuss the critical challenge of grid modernization and cybersecurity and the steps we can take from a research   more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Independent UNM report analyzes contributions from employment, goods and services, construction and taxes * * * An independent economic impact analysis has found that Los Alamos National Laboratory is responsible for creating 24,169 jobs in New Mexico while contributing $3.1 billion a year--much of it in out-of-state dollars--to the New Mexico economy. "The Labora  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Competitors' success predicting quake timing in the online Kaggle competition could help save lives, infrastructure * * * Three teams who applied novel machine learning methods to successfully predict the timing of earthquakes from historic seismic data are splitting $50,000 in prize money from an open, online Kaggle competition hosted by Los Alamos National Labora  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, July 18 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: Los Alamos National Laboratory is responsible for more than 24,000 jobs in New Mexico and generates $3.1 billion in economic output across the state, according to a new analysis by UNM's Bureau of Business and Economic Research. From federal fiscal years 2016 to 2018, LANL directly supported the employment of 14,754 workers and contractors. But LANL spending for procurement and  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Engineer becomes first researcher hired under cooperative agreement * * * New Mexico Tech (NMT) and Los Alamos National Laboratory marked the first scientific staff appointment under their cooperative agreement at a July 11 ceremony held at the Laboratory and attended by NMT President Stephen Wells and Laboratory Director Thom Mason. Appointee David Grow will work   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Award honors scientists and engineers for outstanding contributions to their fields * * * Abigail Hunter, of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Computational Physics Division, and Shea Mosby, of the Laboratory's Physics Division, have received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. "Abigail has become a technical thought leader  more