Whistleblower Anthony T. Rivera Sues LLNL
Anthony T. Rivera
LLNL News:
Anthony T. Rivera, an award-winning senior engineer who blew the whistle on safety violations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, sued the lab Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
His suit seeks $5 million in damages – and a court order reforming U.S. Department of Energy practices.
Rivera, a 29-year employee with LLNL, charges Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC is liable for wrongful termination in violation of public policy because managers fired him after he disclosed safety violations in the lab’s high Read More
DOE Announces $18 Million To Develop Solar Energy Storage Solutions, Boost Grid Resiliency
SFI Lecture ‘DNA, Love, And Gender’ Tuesday
Thirst For Power, A Climate Change Solution In The Cards
A Los Alamos educational company that promotes science and technology literacy has been invited to participate in the Climate Game Night next week at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Science Education Solutions (SCIEDS) will be demonstrating and discussing their professionally developed and scientifically
Moniz: We’ve Reached A Milestone
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
By Secretary ERNEST MONIZ
Department of Energy
After years of negotiation and months of preparation, we’ve reached a milestone.
Today, we are officially implementing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a historic agreement to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful in nature. Before this agreement, Iran’s breakout time — or the time it would take for Iran to gather enough fissile material to build a weapon — was just two to three months. Today, because of the Iran deal, it would take them 12 months Read More
DOE Announces $11 Million For Seven New Projects To Test Options For Optimal Efficiency Of U.S. Electric Grid
DOE News:
- ARPA-E’s GRID DATA Projects will Develop Innovative Models and Data Repositories to Improve Transmission and Distribution of Electricity on the U.S. Electric Grid
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Energy Department’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $11 million in funding for seven transformational projects that will develop realistic, open-access models and data repositories to aid in improving the U.S. electric grid.
ARPA-E’s new program, Generating Realistic Information for the Development of Distribution and Transmission Algorithms Read More
LANL: Machine Learning Helps Discover Most Luminous Supernova In History
An artist’s impression of the record-breaking superluminous supernova ASASSN-15lh as it would appear from an exoplanet about 10,000 light years away in the host galaxy of the supernova. Courtesy/Beijing Planetarium – Jin Ma
Two of the 14-centimeter diameter lens telescopes in use for the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) that discovered ASASSN-15lh. Since this photo was taken, two more telescopes have been added to the ASAS-SN station in Cerro Tololo, Chile. Courtesy/Wayne Rosing
LANL News:
- Powerful explosion 570 billion times brighter than the sun
Machine-learning Read More