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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

DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.  As part of the Energy Department’s Grid Modernization Initiative announced by Secretary Ernest Moniz last week to improve the resiliency, reliability and security of the nation’s electrical power grid, DOE today announced $18 million in funding for six new projects across the United States.
 
These projects will enable the development and demonstration of integrated, scalable, and cost-effective solar technologies that incorporate energy storage to power American homes after the sun sets or when clouds are overhead.
 
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SFI Lecture ‘DNA, Love, And Gender’ Tuesday

Karissa Sanbonmatsu, LANL
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) lecture “DNA, Love, and Gender” with Karissa Sanbonmatsu is at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday Jan. 19, at The Lensic Performing Arts Center.
 
When it comes to human behavior, some traits are neither nature nor nurture, but something altogether different. That “something” is epigenetics, the science that helps to explain how the environment, including some social interactions, alter DNA.
 
In this talk, Dr. Karissa Sanbonmatsu gives an overview of the new science of epigenetics, which may help to
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Thirst For Power, A Climate Change Solution In The Cards

Grid modernization is one of the many issues that will influence water and energy trade-offs in the future. Photo by Randy Montoya,/SNL for Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium
 
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

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

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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

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