Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sep. 12—In the cosmic tug-of-war between matter and antimatter, matter has the upper hand. Our universe leans more heavily on the side of matter. In a one-to-one ratio, matter and antimatter ...
LANL: The Real Story (LANL community blog) LANL: The Corporate Story (follow-up blog to "LANL: The Real Story) LANL: Technology Transfer, an example; LANL: The Rest of the Story (ongoing blog for LANL employees) Protecting the Nation's Nuclear Materials. Government Calls Arms Complexes Secure; Critics Disagree NPR.
Nov. 1—A Los Alamos National Laboratory worker recently punctured a glove used to handle radioactive material in a sealed compartment, and wind blew airborne tritium into the liquid waste ...
Charles F. McMillan had been Principal Associate Director for Weapons Programs at Los Alamos and joined the laboratory in 2006, where he was responsible for directing the science, technology, engineering, and infrastructure that enables the Laboratory to deliver on its core mission of ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of the nation's nuclear deterrent.
According to Los Alamos officials, "many of the CMR facility systems and structural components are aged, outmoded, eroding, and generally deteriorating." In 1999, the NNSA decided to plan for the "end-of-life" of the CMR building around 2010. [2] [3] Thereafter planning began for the CMRR facility which would serve as a replacement. There is ...
Feb. 5—Two workers suffered skin contamination in separate incidents last month at Los Alamos National Laboratory's plutonium facility, the latest in a series of worker-safety lapses at the lab.
He was the deputy director for science, technology, and engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2 October 2023, he became the sixth director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [ 3 ]
Sep. 7—In the 2011 science fiction novel The Martian, the stranded Mark Watney spent more than 500 Earth days on the red planet. The Curiosity rover has got him beat, eightfold. Twelve years ...