Los Alamos Police Take Bealls Shoplifting Suspect Ashley Garcia Into Custody
Ashley Alexanda Garcia
Staff Report
Los Alamos police have taken shoplifting suspect Ashley Alexanda Garcia of Hernandez into custody. An LAPD spokesperson told the Los Alamos Daily Post this evening that a tip led to the arrest of Hernandez by the Rio Arriba Sheriffs Department.
Garcia, 23, was transferred to the Los Alamos Detention Facility. She is facing charges of shoplifting, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and duty to give information and render aid, in connection with an incident Thursday, March 9 at Bealls Department Store on Trinity Drive. According to police, Garcia Read More
McMillan To Testify At House Armed Services Panel
LANL Director Charlie McMillan
Staff Report
The public will get a first glimpse under the hood of the next era of American nuclear weapons this week, when key officials in the complex stand for questions during a hearing of a House Armed Services subcommittee scheduled for Thursday.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan is set to be among those appearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The meeting at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. will address “Oversight Review of Infrastructure Needs and Projects Ready for Immediate Implementation in the Nuclear Read More
Constellis Enters Into Definitive Agreement To Acquire Centerra Group – LANL’s Protective Force Contractor
CENTERRA News:
RESTON, Va. & PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Constellis, a leading provider of operational support and risk management services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Centerra Group, LLC (“Centerra”) and its subsidiaries from an affiliate of Alvarez & Marsal Capital. Centerra holds the protective force contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Hazardous Waste Backlog May Take Years To Unload
A hazardous waste permit modification for LANL requests three storage units at Technical Area 55, including the High Efficiency Neutron Counter Pad, shown here, which would be used as an outdoor storage pad. Courtesy/LANL
Among the many consequences of the Valentine’s Dayradiation incident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico in 2014, one necessity was a significant reworking of hazardous waste storage arrangements at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Plutonium Facility. The lab’s signature plutonium processing facility, Read More
Letter To The Editor: Strip ’Em To Their Skivvies And Light One Off!
By Dr. T. DOUGLAS REILLYBack in the 1970’s, Harold Agnew,* third director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), presented a Director’s Colloquium to explain his congressional testimony regarding a proposed Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). He feared the world’s leaders would soon forget the destructive power of nuclear weapons, so he proposed the following:
“Every five or so years, gather the world’s leaders on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, ‘strip ’em to their skivvies,’ and ‘Light one off!’ First they’d be blinded
LANL: Perovskite Edges Can Be Tuned For Optoelectronic Performance
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their research partners are creating innovative 2D layered hybrid perovskites that allow greater freedom in designing and fabricating efficient optoelectronic devices. Courtesy/LANL
How it works, from sunshine (yellow beam) to LED light and photovoltaics — Edge-states at the edges of the 2D perovskite layers lead to dissociation of electron-hole pairs (excitons) to free carriers for efficient photovoltaics of more than 12 percent (left). Dissociated carriers captured and located at the edge-states live longer while Read More
LANL: Scientists Discover Unexpected Oxidation State For Molecular Plutonium
Scientists from LANL and University of California-Irvine explore a new oxidation state of plutonium. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- New chemical form paves the way for additional transuranic revelations
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with the University of California – Irvine (UCI) have uncovered a significant new chemical attribute of plutonium, the identification and structural verification of the +2-oxidation state in a molecular system.
“This finding marks out plutonium, already known for its extremely complex chemistry, as the actinide element Read More
