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Mechanical engineer at Sandia named Asian American Engineer of the Year

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Bo Song has been recognized as an Asian American Engineer of the Year.

Fallen trees become firewood for local pueblos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

On a recent Friday, trucks were lined up early near the Los Alamos National Laboratory fire station as tribal members of San Ildefonso, Cochiti, Jemez, and Santa Clara Pueblos waited for their turn to pick up their shares of more than 150 cords of wood.

Los Alamos works to make better, more recyclable plastics with new BOTTLE consortium

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is partnering with four other national laboratories and four academic institutions in a new program to tackle the problem of plastic pollution.

Virtual support from Sandia enabled B61-12 flight test on F-35A jet fighter

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Overcoming COVID-19 pandemic challenges through virtual means, teams from Sandia National Laboratories and the US Air Force under the guidance of the National Nuclear Security Administration performed a critical B61-12 flight test aboard the F-35A Lightning II jet fighter. The flight test at Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert was needed to validate software and firmware changes in preparation for future development and flight tests

Turning up the heat on molten salt valves

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is partnering with Flowserve Corp. and Kairos Power LLC on a $2.5 million, three-year Department of Energy Advanced Valve Project grant to lower the cost and boost the efficiency of concentrating solar power in the US.

Funder: Department of Energy

Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers names Sandia Labs Organization of the Year

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has been named 2020 Organization of the Year in the government category by the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. The award, presented during the society's virtual conference this month, recognizes organizations with a longstanding commitment to cultural diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

New Los Alamos National Laboratory spin-off aims to put nuclear reactors in space

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new agreement hopes to speed along a nuclear reactor technology that could be used to fuel deep-space exploration and possibly power human habitats on the Moon or Mars. Los Alamos National Laboratory has signed an agreement to license the 'Kilopower' space reactor technology to Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes), also based in Los Alamos, NM.

Los Alamos scientists find a way to quickly test rust on graphene-protected cars, planes, ships

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Trace amounts of graphene could create a decades-long protective barrier against oxygen corrosion for cars, aircrafts, and ships--but evaluating its effectiveness has been a challenge, until now.

Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their collaborators from the University of California, Irvine have created fundamental electronic building blocks out of tiny structures known as quantum dots and used them to assemble functional logic circuits.

Journal: Nature Communications

Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study confirms the success of a natural-gas leak-detection tool pioneered by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists that uses sensors and machine learning to locate leak points at oil and gas fields, promising new automatic, affordable sampling across vast natural gas infrastructure.

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