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Udall, Heinrich Urge President to Revise Budget To Address Changes In Design And Operation At WIPP

Sen. Tom Udall

U.S. Senate News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich urge President Obama to send Congress an amendment to his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget to ensure that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has the funding it needs to continue implementing the recommendations of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Accident Investigation Boards, including required changes in design and operation.

A fire and radiation release earlier this year have left WIPP closed while the Department of Energy investigates the root cause of the accidents and develops Read More

WIPP: Tests Begin in Preparation for Filter Change Out

WIPP News:

Workers began Friday the process to test underground ventilation fans to verify that airflow can be safely reduced during the filter replacement process. New filters are required to replace those that have been capturing material since the Feb. 5 fire and Feb. 14 radiation event.

Workers are replacing the filters in phases so that exhaust air leaving the underground facility will continue to be filtered during the activity. This is the first filter replacement to be done at WIPP, and workers will be assisted by experts from the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. Replacement Read More

LANL Scientist Discusses Integrative Biosurveillance At Bio Symposium

Harshini Mukundan

LANL News:

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory research used in National Biosurveillance Strategy

Harshini Mukundan, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy group, will talk about her team’s innovative research on integrative biosurveillance at the third annual Biosurveillance Symposium sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory June 12 in Baltimore.

Biosurveillance requires the integration of complex data from a variety of sources. Mukundan, along with Ben McMahon, of the Laboratory’s Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Read More

LANL: Desert Scientists Turn to Rainforest for Climate Answers

Heath-Powers: Los Alamos scientist Heath Powers, foreground, and on-site technician Vagner Castro work on field equipment for measuring carbon dioxide and water vapor near areas of human habitation in Brazil.Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Work in Brazil’s Amazon Basin Should Improve Climate Prediction

Nearly a quarter of the way through their two-year project, a team of scientists deployed to Brazil’s Amazon Basin is unraveling the mysteries of how land and atmospheric processes affect tropical hydrology and climate. Their work will go far toward improving the climate-prediction computer Read More

SFI Seminar: Whiskey is for Drinking … Water is for Fighting Over

SFI News:
 
Christa Brelsford
Arizona State University; SFI Graduate Fellow 

Santa Fe Institute Seminar – Whiskey is for Drinking: Water is for Fighting Over

12:15 p.m. • Monday, June  2 • Santa Fe Institute Collins Conference Room, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe.

Abstract: The phrase “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over,” often misattributed to Mark Twain, succinctly describes how water is thought about in the western United States. As urban populations grow, water managers are becoming increasingly concerned about water scarcity because Read More

DOE Issues Update On WIPP Repairs

WIPP personnel conduct visual inspections of the underground facilities at WIPP. Courtesy/DOE

DOE News:

The Department of Energy Field Office in Carlsbad has announced that on May 28, WIPP workers entered the underground facility to adjust the ventilation system. While underground, they adjusted a regulator on a bulkhead door and closed and taped doors at another underground location to allow more air flow through Panel 7 and better ventilation control in preparation for the planned filter change.

Geotechnical experts also conducted underground inspections at several locations to Read More

WIPP: Waste Control Specialists Continues Precautionary Measures

An employee with Waste Control Specialists examines modular concrete casks, similar to those that are being used to overpack waste containers from LANL. Courtesy/WIPP

WIPP News:

Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in Andrews, Texas, continues implementing precautionary measures this week to ensure the safety of the public, environment and workers.

WCS is loading standard waste boxes from the suspect waste stream originating from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) into modular concrete casks.

Prior to loading, thermal readings are taken of each  standard waste box container Read More

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