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DOE Funds Two Los Alamos Energy Projects

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Two Los Alamos National Laboratory projects are among technologies supported in today’s U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announcement of nearly $16 million in funding to help businesses move promising energy technologies from DOE’s National Laboratories to the marketplace.

“Los Alamos research expands the options for energy production while minimizing the impact on the environment. This work supports our mission to strengthen the security of energy for the nation,” said Melissa Fox, director of Applied Energy Programs at Los Alamos. “Combining our expertise in such areas Read More

Local Legislator Tackles National Nuclear Issues

New Mexico State Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard speaks with INL Director Mark Peters during a site visit last week about the various issues facing the DOE sites and the role of the national labs moving forward. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

Legislative leaders from the Department of Energy site states gathered last week at Idaho National Laboratory to meet with DOE officials, researchers and industry experts for a briefing on nuclear-related topics crucial to the national laboratories.

New Mexico State Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard joined fellow members of the bipartisan National Nuclear Read More

Udall Votes To Prevent Suspected Terrorists From Obtaining Guns

U.S. Sen. Tom Udall 
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall has joined Senate Democrats in pushing for two measures to close loopholes in the law by expanding background checks for gun purchases and preventing suspected terrorists from obtaining guns.
 
The measures, offered as amendments to the annual Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies funding bill, were blocked by Senate Republicans who offered counter proposals that would weaken gun laws.
 
“Today, we had the opportunity to pass measures supported by an
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Compelling Reason NOT To Build LANL Bypass Road

This bear is spotted recently strolling along West Road. Photo by Andi Kron
 
By ANDI KRON
Los Alamos
 
On an evening around sunset recently, I was enjoying a beautiful view and quiet stroll across Omega Bridge and then onto the trail behind the Research Park.
 
As usual, I like to take the trail behind the building rather than the noisier West Jemez Road. As I headed out of the trees and approached the intersection with West Road, I looked up and quite unexpectedly saw the cutest little bear–about 2 years old–wandering around the road in front of me. I stopped and took a
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Review: The Untold Biology Of A Physicists’ Town

Elizabeth Church signs copies of her new novel in May at Collected Works in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

Review By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

“The Atomic Weight of Love” is Los Alamos novelist Elizabeth Church’s first book, written by an unproven, non-celebrity writer, not even a relative of Los Alamos’s most famous literary figure, the poet Peggy Pond Church.

Elizabeth Church is on her own hook. Born and raised in Los Alamos and a resident, after thirty years of a legal career, without an advance or safety net, she has written a novel that she had promised Read More

DOE Awards $4 Million Contract To RRC-JGMS NHO

DOE News:
 
CINCINNATI  The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the award of an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to RRC-JGMS NHO, LLC (RJ-JV), a small business in Wexford, Penn. 
 
The contract will have a maximum value of $4 million over 4 years. Firm-fixed-price and time and material task orders will be issued from the base contract. Work performed under this contract will be performed at various DOE-EM sites.
 
The Contractor will provide the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Management with Facilities
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DOE Invests $82 Million In Nuclear Technology

DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards in 28 states.
 
In total, 93 projects were selected to receive funding that will help push innovative nuclear technologies toward commercialization and into the market. These awards provide funding for nuclear energy-related research through the Nuclear Energy University Program, Nuclear Science User Facilities, and Nuclear Energy Enabling Technology
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