Carr Lectures On Secret Los Alamos At Smith Auditorium April 4
LANL Historian Alan B. Carr stands near one of the Trinity Site bunkers positioned nearly two miles from ground zero where the first nuclear bomb test happened in the Jornada del Muerto desert, 35 miles southeast of Socorro. Carr Lectures On Secret Los Alamos At Smith Auditorium April 4. Courtesy/LANL
JROMC News:
Alan B. Carr, Program Manager and Senior Historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory, will give an illustrated talk on “Manhattan: The View from Los Alamos of History’s Most Secret Project” at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4 at the Duane Smith Auditorium.
Sponsored by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Read More
LANL: A New, Data-driven Model Could Help The World Meet Clean-energy Demands
‘LAROMance’ predicts metals’ response to extreme conditions. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
LAROMance is a data-driven model that predicts the mechanical response of structural engineering metals subjected to extreme environments, such as those in nuclear power plants and wind turbines.
Metallurgy has advanced society for millennia.
The earliest metal used by humans was copper. Fast forward 10,000 years, and now we’re using metals to meet essential global-energy demands. This is because many of the proposed clean-energy solutions hinge on the ability to understand and predict how metallic Read More
President’s FY-23 NNSA Budget Enables ‘Responsive And Responsible’ Nuclear Security Efforts
NNSA News:
Request Funds Weapons Modernization, Nuclear Security and Infrastructure Investments
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration on Monday released President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for NNSA, a proposal designed to support the nuclear deterrent and nuclear security at this crucial time.
The budget will allow NNSA to deliver the safe, secure, reliable, and effective nuclear deterrent the nation requires and continue NNSA’s progress in modernizing key production capabilities. It will advance nonproliferation Read More
Home On The Range: From Ranches To Rockets Lecture
General Electric employees posing on a V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground (now White Sands Missile Range) in New Mexico. Courtesy/WSMR
NMMSH News:
ALAMAGORDO — At the turn of the 20th century, most of the arid land east of Las Cruces was ranch land. Cattle, sheep, and goat ranches filled the Tularosa Basin, the Oscuro Range and the surrounding countryside.
Most of these ranches were small privately owned pieces of land supplemented by large parcels of federal and state property, which ranchers leased for grazing purposes.
These self-sufficient ranchers had maintained their homes for Read More
U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján Statement On Confirmation Of Alvin Harlyn Warren To AmeriCorps Board Of Directors
Alvin Harlyn Warren
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the confirmation of Alvin Harlyn Warren, of Santa Clara Pueblo, to serve as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency more commonly known as AmeriCorps:
“As the nation’s largest grant maker for service and volunteering, AmeriCorps engages millions of Americans in life-changing service that strengthens communities, fosters civic engagement, and provides participants with Read More
Scenes From JROMC’s 50th Anniversary Exhibit ‘A Legacy Of Learning’ Opening Reception At Step Up Gallery
Art Freed, who has served on the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC) for 50 years, chats with fellow member Becky Shankland during the opening reception Thursday of the JROMC’s 50th anniversary exhibit ‘A Legacy of Learning’ at the Step Up Gallery in Mesa Public Library. The exhibit showcases never before seen photographs and artifacts highlighting the JROMC’s 50 years of accomplishments including its memorial lecturers, scholarship recipients, Oppenheimer’s triumphs and tragedies and even his wife Kitty’s life. The exhibit runs through April 24. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More
LANL News Roundup For Week Of March 21, 2022
LANL News:
A weekly compilation of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) news stories for the week of March 21.
Science:
Un-Earthing planetary defense:
This summer, NASA will launch its first mission to a metallic asteroid, 16 Psyche, located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Previous missions have explored rocky and icy asteroids, but Psyche’s composition is widely believed to consist of a considerable amount of metal. Psyche has two large impact structures in its southern hemisphere. Simulating the formation of these craters using computational Read More