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Centerra’s Ted Spain Addresses Scholarship Recipients

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 8, 2016
Centerra’s Ted Spain speaks at the 2016 Foundation Scholarship Recipient Cohort Gathering June 30 at Northern New Mexico College in Española. Photo by Robert Naranjo/vdp.com
 
During his talk, Centerra’s Ted Spain encourages students to make a positive difference in the world, give back and help those who are coming behind them. Photo by Robert Naranjo/vdp.com
 
Foundation Executive Director Terry Mulert, left, with Centerra’s Ted Spain at NNMC’s 2016 Foundation Scholarship Recipient Cohort Gathering June 30 in Española. Photo by Robert Naranjo/vdp.com
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Council Taps Anne Nobile For Probate Judge

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 7, 2016
Probate Judge Anne Nobile. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

Longtime Los Alamos resident Anne Nobile is Los Alamos County’s new probate judge.

She replaces Bill McKerley who resigned when it was determined he could not hold the position while also serving as chair of the Republican Party of Los Alamos. He resigned May 20, 2016 but agreed to serve until replaced. 

The Los Alamos County Council voted 6-1 to appoint Nobile to serve the remainder of this year’s term through Dec. 31. Councilor James Chrobocinski voted for businessman Abe Read More

Flipping Crystals Improves Solar-Cell Performance

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 6, 2016

Three types of large-area solar cells made out of two-dimensional perovskites. At left, a room-temperature cast film; upper middle is a sample with the problematic band gap, and at right is the hot-cast sample with the best energy performance.  Image courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Perovskite research team spin-casts crystals for efficient and resilient optoelectronic devices

In a step that could bring perovskite crystals closer to use in the burgeoning solar power industry, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northwestern University Read More

WIPP: New Waste Acceptance Criteria Released

Submitted by Chris Clark on July 6, 2016
WIPP News:
 

The Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) issued the revised Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) June 27 for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to transuranic (TRU) waste generator site programs across the DOE complex.

 
Changes in WAC criteria for WIPP are being made in response to findings of the Accident Investigation Board’s report on the radiological release at WIPP in February 2014.
 
The WAC Revision 8 goes into effect on July 5 and TRU waste generator site programs will temporarily suspend certification of TRU waste, pending a determination
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Nature On Tap: Recent Astronomy Findings July 7

Submitted by Chris Clark on July 6, 2016
PEEC News:
 
The community is invited to Nature on Tap to discuss the latest findings in astronomy 5:30-7 p.m., at UnQuarked in Central Park Square.
 
Local astronomers and astrophysicists Dr. Paul Arendt, Dr. Galen Gisler and Dr. Rick Wallace will provide an engaging discussion about black holes, NASA’s Juno probe, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the night sky, and upcoming planetarium shows.
 
Paul Arendt received his PhD in physics at Ohio State University and now works in commercial manufacturing and the Applied Research & Development of Materials department
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EM, Industry Managers Across DOE Complex Participate In National Cleanup Workshop

Submitted by Chris Clark on July 6, 2016
DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Managers from EM field offices and cleanup contractors across the DOE cleanup program are set to take part in the 2016 National Cleanup Workshop, scheduled to be held Sept. 14-15 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Va.
 
Planned participants include:
  • Doug Hintze, Manager, DOE-EM Los Alamos Field Office
  • Bryan Bower, DOE Project Director, West Valley Demonstration Project
  • Sue Cange, Manager, DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management
  • Jack Craig, Manager, DOE Savannah River Operations Office
  • Robert Edwards, Acting
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Bathtub Row Press Launches Doomed To Cooperate

Submitted by Chris Clark on July 6, 2016
Former LANL Director Dr. Sig Hecker signing the book for LANL Director Dr. Charlie McMillan. Courtesy photo
 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
 
Bathtub Row Press, the publishing house of the Los Alamos Historical Society, released this week Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers, a two-volume, 976-page series of essays edited by former laboratory director Siegfried Hecker.
 
The book tells the remarkable stories of nuclear scientists from two former enemy nations,
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