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DOE completes legacy waste cleanup at 4 sites in LA Canyon
Four toxic waste sites located on the south rim of Los Alamos Canyon have been cleaned of toxic waste, according to the Department of Energy and the Environmental Management Field Office.
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Los Alamos Scientists Win Top American Physical Society Prizes
Two senior scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are being honored by the American Physical Society (APS) for their fundamental contributions in nuclear physics and biophysics.
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Bechtel Recognized for Reaching Key Environmental and Occupational Health Milestones
Bechtel announced that the company’s Nuclear, Security & Environmental global business unit has achieved key certifications for International Organization for Standardization 14001:2015 for environmental management systems and Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001:2007 for occupational health and safety management.
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Improving Nuclear Security with Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing, popularized in common conversations as “3D printing,” has brought more public attention to the tooling trade than just about any innovation in the last 100 years.
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Luminescent concentrator solar windows grow in size
A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM) researchers is taking quantum-dot-based luminescent concentrators used in photovoltaic windows from the laboratory to the construction site, proving that the technology can be scaled up from palm-sized demonstration models to windows large enough to put in and power a building.
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Bechtel Delivers Largest Greenfield Program in Its 118-year History
Following a six-year global design and construction effort, Bechtel announced it has completed construction of the Curtis Island LNG program with Australia Pacific LNG starting sustained production from Train 2 of its facility. Bechtel has now delivered all six liquefied natural gas (LNG) production trains to three customers on Curtis Island, off the shore of Queensland, just north of the city of Gladstone.
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Fusion award honors LLNL scientist’s career
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researcher Wayne Meier as the recipient of their 2016 Fusion Technology Award.
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Hair research offers breakthrough on human identity
In research that could transform detective work, scientists here say they are close to yielding enough identification from a single strand of hair to equal the accuracy of DNA profiling.
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'Keyhole surgery' for Sellafield waste retrieval
A complex remote cutting job is underway at Sellafield to enable the removal of cladding waste from an outdated silo.
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Laboratory and Norwegian researchers collaborate to improve cancer screening
Laboratory computer scientists and Norwegian researchers are collaborating to apply high performance computing (HPC) to the analysis of medical data to improve screening for cervical cancer.
Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -
Bechtel Wins Chief Learning Officer Award for Second Consecutive Year
Bechtel today announced that for the second year in a row, one of its in-house leadership and development programs was awarded a gold medal by Chief Learning Officer (CLO) magazine in the Business Partnership Award category. The CLO awards recognize companies that demonstrate the highest excellence in designing and delivering employee development programs.
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Researchers explore biomechanical regulation of a key gene in bone
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with Damian Genetos at UC Davis and Alex Robling at Indiana University School of Medicine, investigated a regulatory element for the gene controlling bone mechanoadaptation.
Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory News