LANL News:
Due to heavy snow in the area, Los Alamos National Laboratory is closed and has suspended on-site activities today, Oct. 27.
All employees who are able to telework should do so today.
Employees who normally work on-site and are unable to telework may use Report Pay.
Employees should continue to check for updates on the LANL hotline at 505.667.6622 or the LANL Homepage.
Additional emergency notifications will be distributed as needed. Read More
Forty-five percent of the LANL’s female workforce is Latina, including from top left, Elaine Martinez, logistics maintenance; Crystal Alarid, safe-deployed security; Sara Del Valle, information systems and modeling; and Elaine Cordova, classified systems service. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was selected as one of the 2020 Top 50 Best Companies for Latinas to Work in the U.S. by LATINA Style Inc. LANL ranked 33 out of 50, based on 2019 data.
“Latinas represent Read More
LANL-TRIAD provide grant to The Family YMCA to support afterschool and full day childcare for Los Alamos Public School staff and community members. Courtesy/YMCA
YMCA News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory-TRIAD, LLC recently awarded a grant to The Family YMCA to support afterschool and full day childcare for Los Alamos Public School staff and community members.
The $15,000 grant to the Y will help LAPS staff and community members needing financial assistance for childcare, support Y staff training in Neurosequential and Social Emotional learning, and help fund supplies for an enhanced Read More
Air Force Research Laboratory senior engineer Dr. Michael Starks standing in front of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that carried AFRL’s Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) satellite into orbit on Jun. 25, 2019. DSX was designed and built at AFRL, and is successfully conducting new research to advance understanding of the Van Allen radiation belts and their effect on spacecraft components. Courtesy/AFRL
AFRL News:
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE – The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) commander, Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle, recently announced the sought-after annual AFRL Fellow Read More
N3B News:
The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) will host the required semi-annual meeting for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Individual Permit.
This meeting is 5:30-7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, and will be conducted virtually.
The Individual Permit authorizes the discharge of storm water from LANL sites where historical industrial activities occurred.
Discussion topics for the meeting include:
A crew prepares a waste shipment at LANL for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Courtesy/DOE
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com
In a letter dated Sept. 24 to Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Acting Chairman Thomas A. Summers updated the Secretary on potential safety hazards in transuranic waste storage, handling and processing across Los Alamos National Laboratory facilities.
The Board has found that safety bases for both National Nuclear Security Administration and Environmental Management Read More
Chicoma high-performance computing platform to support the nation’s response to COVID-19. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed the installation of a next-generation high-performance computing platform, with aim to enhance its ongoing R&D efforts in support of the nation’s response to COVID-19.
Named Chicoma, the new platform is poised to demonstrate Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s new HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecture for solving complex scientific problems.
“As extensive social and economic impacts from COVID-19 continue to grip Read More
Centerra-Los Alamos continues its longtime annual support of United Way of Northern New Mexico (UWNNM) with a $10,000 contribution during a check presentation Tuesday in front of the Los Alamos Daily Post Newspaper in downtown Los Alamos. Centerra officials presenting the check to UWNNM Executive Director Cindy Padilla, from left, Environment, Safety, Health and Quality Assurance Director Rick Gandenberger, Business Management Director Graig Newell and General Manager Lennie Upshaw. This generous donation from Centerra helps support UWNNM in its mission to improve the lives of children Read More
A jaguar about to swim the Three Brothers River. A free Zoom presentation by Martin Cooper will take place this Friday. If you have already requested an invitation, you are asked to request again due to a technical glitch, by emailing Director@losalamosseniorcenter.com. Photo by Martin Cooper
By BERNADETTE LAURTZEN
Executive Director
LARSO
Many may know Martin Cooper as a LANL physicist, but this week you can see him through the eye of the camera lens, a virtual tour, from before the world changed the very meaning of travel.
Friday, seniors enduring the pandemic who find the need to “get out” Read More
NNSA Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty visiting KCNSC Oct. 13 as part of her national tour of the agency’s eight laboratories, plants and sites. Courtesy/NNSA
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration and U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Nuclear Security (DOE/NNSA), continued her tour of the Nuclear Security Enterprise Oct. 13 visiting the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC).
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of NNSA’s creation, the Administrator is making her way across the Nation visiting Read More