Community: Los Alamos ranks as a top employer promoting diversity

Los Alamos National Laboratory was selected as one of the ‘Top Companies for Latinas to Work for in the United States in 2022,’ by LATINA Style magazine. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of Sept. 25, 2023.

Science: Chi-Nu experiment concludes with data to support nuclear security, energy reactors

The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding criticality, safety and designing fast-neutron energy reactors. The Chi-Nu project, a years-long experiment measuring the energy spectrum of neutrons emitted from neutron-induced fission, recently concluded the most detailed and extensive uncertainty analysis of the three major actinide elements — uranium-238, uranium-235 and plutonium-239. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

A nurse at Los Alamos National Lab brings her skills — and heart — to help in Honduras

An occupational health nurse at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Shannon Griffin first traveled to Olanchito, Honduras, in 2006. She’d come to the town of 100,000 people as the only nurse on a team of doctors that had volunteered to provide free medical care to residents. Griffin figured they’d help a few dozen families and then be on their way. But after the team set up inside a clinic, Shannon opened the door to the courtyard and saw men, women and children camped outside and a line that wrapped around the block. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL