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New Mexico Environment Department Files Complaint Against DOE To Speed Clean-Up Of Legacy Waste, Terminate 2016 Consent Order At Los Alamos National Laboratory

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NMED Cabinet Secretary James Kenney

NMED News:

…‘Non-compliance with 2016 Consent Order causing unacceptable delays, threatening public health and the environment’

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) filed a civil complaint in First Judicial District Court against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for failing to make progress on clean-up of contamination as required by the 2016 Compliance Order on Consent (2016 Consent Order) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

NMED found the DOE Los Alamos Field Office’s 2021 Plan was inadequate due to a lack of substantive Read More

Local Organizations Join Forces To Help Homeless

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Kiwanian Tim Glasco, Linda Daly and Don Casperson busy assembling clothing bags this morning at the IHM parish hall. LANL’s Community Partnership Office purchased the clothing from Desert Tees & Sports in Santa Fe, which owner Ralph Ortiz sold at cost. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Kiwanians from left, Cheryl Pongratz, Don Casperson and Jackie Beebe preparing boxes filled with bags of clothes for the homeless at shelters around the area. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

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Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Community Partnership Office (CPO) provided 633 Read More

LANL: Explosives Chemist David Chavez Added To Editorial Advisory Board Of Journal Of American Chemical Society

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Explosives Chemist David Chavez in his lab working on a possible TNT replacement, bis-oxadiazole. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • JACS Editor-in-Chief seeks to broaden diversity and inclusivity of the Journal’s peer review

David Chavez, deputy group leader of High Explosives Science and Technology (Q-5) group at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been added to a newly formed Editorial Advisory Board for the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) by the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Erick Carreira.

The new Editorial Advisory Board, “has been crafted to be inclusive. Read More

LANL Frontiers In Science Talk: COVID Solutions Feb. 24

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At Wednesday talk, Nick Hengartner will set the stage for how disease modeling works. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

The community is invited to join an online Frontiers In Science Talk at 6 p.m., Feb. 24 with three top Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers exploring COVID solutions.

Click here to register. Email fis@lanl.gov to submit questions.

Nick Hengartner is an applied mathematician at LANL and former leader of the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group (T-6), one of the few research groups in the world devoted to mathematical biology and infectious disease modeling. 

He Read More

LANL Invites Public To Mars Rover Landing After-Party

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An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance on the surface of Mars. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech

LANL News:

The public is invited to a free Mars Perseverance landing after-party hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18, MST. Due to COVID restrictions, the event will take place online.

The after-party is a chance to celebrate the landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars and learn more about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s role in the mission.

This hour-long virtual event will feature presentations by more than a dozen Los Alamos scientists and engineers who helped Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Staff Recognized For Outstanding Response To Pandemic And More

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DOE honors 248 LANL employees with Department of Energy Secretary’s honor awards. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory employees were recently recognized with Honor and Achievement Awards from the Department of Energy Secretary; 248 Laboratory employees on eight teams won the awards, which are the highest honor a DOE employee or contractor can receive.

“Congratulations to the recipients, many of whom innovated and persevered through a tough time in our global history,” LANL Director Thom Mason said. “These awards reinforce the fact that our national laboratories’ Read More

LANL: Perseverance Rover Takes New Mexico To Mars

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An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars, scheduled for Feb. 18. Los Alamos National Laboratory has several critical roles on the mission. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

An illustration showing the seven scientific instruments on board the Mars Perseverance rover, including SuperCam and SHERLOC, both of which were developed in part at Los Alamos. Courtesy/NASA-JPL/Caltech

LANL News:

When NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover touches down on the surface of Mars Thursday, Feb. 18, a bit of New Mexico will land along with it, thanks to work done at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

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Environment Department To Host Quarterly Los Alamos Community Engagement Meeting Feb. 25

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NMED DOE-OB Bureau Chief Chris Catechis

NMED News:

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) will host a virtual Los Alamos community engagement meeting 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25.

The purpose of these regularly scheduled meetings is to engage the community in discussion of topics related to NMED’s work at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

The meeting will include an update on air monitoring data gathered by NMED in association with Middle DP Road contamination and the NMED Department of Energy Oversight Bureau (DOE-OB) will provide an overview of how to access and search publicly Read More