UPDATE: LANL Approximates WIPP Explosion
Drum 68660 at Panel 7 Room 7, Row 16, Column 4 in the WIPP underground photographed after the radiological release. Courtesy/DOE
UPDATE:
In response to a query by the Los Alamos Daily Post, Los Alamos National Laboratory provided the following clarification of the experiments related to the breached LANL container at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project, noting that the experiment on an unvented drum at elevated temperatures was expected to cause a reaction. Yet to be determined is whether a drum that is vented, like the one that came open at WIPP, and at a significantly lower temperature, as that Read More
Martian Glass: Window Into Possible Past Life?
Spectral signals: Researchers have found deposits of impact glass preserved in Martian craters like Alga (above) using data from NASA’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). Green indicates the presence of glass. (Blues are pyroxene; reds are olivine.) Such deposits could be a good place to look for signs of past life. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL/University of Arizona
The search for impact glass: A possible Martian site (white circle) is the Nili Fossae trough. The blue-tinted Hargraves crater at the right (blue indicates a low topography) is known Read More
Regional Coalition Of LANL Communities Meets June 12
RCLC News:Discussion/Action Items (1hr 20 min.) 9:15-10:40 a.m.
SOC-LA Guard Union Reaches Contract Agreement
IGUA Local 69 Business Agent Christopher Mandril
The International Guards Union of America Local 69 (IGUA) has reached an agreement on its contract with SOC-Los Alamos, the company that provides security services at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
IGUA Local 69 Business Agent Christopher Mandril spoke with the Los Alamos Daily Post today and confirmed that the agreement was reached at about 9 p.m. Monday by the membership.
“We agreed to pay 15 percent of our medical in exchange for a boost in our 401k,” Mandril said. “Given the way things are ‘now
Los Alamos’ Descartes Labs Is Teaching Computers To See The World
Descartes Labs. Inc. co-founders Mark Johnson, left, and Steven P. Brumby in their offices at 1350 Central Ave., Suite 204 in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
From their offices on the second floor of the Museum Parke Building in downtown Los Alamos, a team of scientists led by Descartes Labs co-founders Mark Johnson and Steven P. Brumby are on a mission to better understand planet Earth by analyzing massive amounts of imagery.
Brumby is the company’s Chief Technology Officer and a theoretical physicist who led a machine-learning
Energy Department And Edison Electric Institute Sign Agreement To Advance Electric Vehicle Technologies
DOE News:SFI: Identity And Social Preferences… June 15
Seth Sanders