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E.U. and U.S. to Extend Scientific Cooperation on Measurements and Standards

July 19, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-PA, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Patrick Gallagher, Joint Research Centre Director General Dominique Ristori and European Parliament Member Edit Herzog at a signing ceremony July 17. Photo by K. Delak/NIST

NIST News:

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) yesterday agreed to expand their current scientific cooperation to include new areas of research, such as energy, healthcare and clinical measurements, Read More

LANL: Mudundi R. Raju Receives Padma Shri Award

July 18, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

President of India Pranab Mukherjee presents the Padma Shri award to former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Mudundi Raju. Courtesy/M. Raju

Mudundi Raju and his wife M. Subhadra Devi Raju met recently for lunch with John Hopkins at the Blue WIndow Bistro in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

LANL News:

Mudundi R. Raju Receives Padma Shri Award

Los Alamos retiree brings medical advances to poor of India

The government of India honored former Los Alamos scientist and Laboratory Fellow Mudundi Raju with a Padma Shri award this year for his distinguished service Read More

NNSA Conducts I-RAPTER Training in Kazakhstan

July 17, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Joseph J. Krol Jr., NNSA Associate Administrator for Emergency Operations. Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) last week conducted an International Radiological Assistance Program Training for Emergency Response (I-RAPTER) training in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The training, held at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Almaty, included using radiation detection equipment to locate hidden radioactive sources during a practical exercise. At the conclusion of the course, international first responders were able to appropriately Read More

Toshiba Commercial Shooting in Los Alamos

July 6, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

COUNTY News:

A Toshiba commercial is being filmed in Los Alamos and Ghost Ranch next week.

WHEN: Monday, July 8-9

WHERE: LOS ALAMOS COUNTY LOCATIONS

Los Alamos County Department of Utilities, EMS Building at Pajarito Cliffs Site;

Los Alamos County Landfill;

Smart House;

Sandia Road at 47^th Street; and

Cheyenne in Tsikimu Village.

Flier notifications have been distributed to all affected neighbors in the Sandia/47th Street neighborhood and the Cheyenne/Tsikimu Village. No interim traffic controls are required.

The commercial is intended for the country of Japan, in Japanese, and will Read More

Truman’s Decision to Drop Bomb Discussed at 70th Anniversary Lecture July 10

July 4, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Noel Pugach. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs on Japan during World War II will be discussed in the next installment of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 70th Anniversary Public Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10 at the Bradbury Science Museum.

Noel Pugach, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, will discuss Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; he also will explain the nature of Truman’s decision and how and why he made it.

“Harry S. Truman considered the use Read More

US, International Partners Remove Last HEU from Vietnam, Set Nuclear Security Milestone

July 3, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) removel in Viet Nam. Courtesy/NNSA News

A Vietnamese commander gives instructions prior to departing in a convoy carrying highly enriched uranium. Courtesy/NNSA News

NNSA News:

VIENNA, Austria – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), in a joint operation with the Russian Federation, announced today the successful removal of 11 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the Dalat Nuclear Research Institute in Dalat,

Russian Youth Paint White Rock Rock

June 28, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

This morning in White Rock, Russian youth visiting from Sarov as part of the Los Alamos-Sarov Sister Cities Initiative painted the White Rock Rock at Rover Boulevard and N.M. 4. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The rock project begins to take shape. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The rock is painted. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Once the rock was painted, the group headed over to the nearby White Rock Fire Station for a tour. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Russian Visitors Present Painting to Paul White

June 28, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

This morning in White Rock, Russian youth visiting from the Sister City of Sarov presented a painting to Paul White of the Los Alamos-Sarov Sister Cities Initiative. White asked the youth how they ever got the painting over here from Russia to which they answered, “It wasn’t easy.” Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Humans Stoked Australia’s ‘Angry Summer’ Heat

June 28, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

The Australian continent endured unprecedented high temperatures in the summer of 2013. This image, using data from NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows Australian land-surface-temperature anomalies, or departures from average, during Jan. 1-8, 2013. Red means above-average temperature; blue, below average; grey, incomplete data. Australia’s summer occurs during the northern-hemisphere winter. Image by Jesse Allen/NASA Earth Observatory

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. –- Human influences that drive global warming are likely to have played a role in Australia’s exceedingly hot summer Read More

US, Japan Develop New Method for Radiological Dose Assessment Around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants

June 27, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have developed a novel method for analyzing airborne radiological monitoring data. This new method has been used to perform a detailed study of survey data taken by the NNSA and JAEA in the months following the March 2011 radiological incident in Japan.

Aerial surveys were employed in the region surrounding the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to cover the area impacted by the accident quickly, thoroughly and safely. This new analysis Read More