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Radiation detection to go
August 14, 2013 • Mobile radiation detectors deployed at international ports ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team completed acceptance testing on an enormous mobile scanner that makes smuggling radiological materials more difficult, the eighth such unit that Sandia has deployed worldwide. The Mobile Radiation Detection and Identification System (MRDIS) enables scanning of...
Categories: Homeland security, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
MRDIS in Oman

Ready-to-sign license speeds up Sandia tech transfer
July 29, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is building a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) that can be licensed by businesses in as little as an hour. “This is the simplest process possible,” said Sandia business development specialist Bob Westervelt, who helped create the ready-to-sign licensing program that businesses can access...
Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Motivating business to design a more resilient nation, one building at a time
July 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Anyone who’s ever come home from vacation to find a home partly destroyed by a leaking roof, broken water line or backed-up sewage knows the horror of drywall replacement, rotted rugs, mold tests and other measures of reconstruction that force domestic life to a halt. The crisis...
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Lone House

Already “outstanding poster” selected for international exhibit
July 22, 2013 • Sandia researchers score MRS “outstanding” rating two years running ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Hongyou Fan was honored for his “outstanding poster” at the 2013 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in San Francisco. His was one of only 12 posters selected out of 2,147 at...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Nanotechnology
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Sandia wounded warriors discover they were united in battle years ago
July 11, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jason Shelton and John Bailon left a Sandia National Laboratories Military Support Committee meeting side by side, sharing stories of combat in Iraq. Bailon talked about a day in the summer of 2005 when his Marine unit was called to rescue a small Joint Special Operations team...
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Sandia wins three R&D 100 awards
July 8, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...
Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Improving the reliability and resiliency of Hoboken’s electric grid in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
July 3, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia will help East Coast communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy boost the resiliency of their electric grids, so they can be better prepared to deal with natural disasters in the future. Sandia’s Energy Surety Design Methodology (ESDM) is a quantitative, risk-based assessment approach that has been applied...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
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Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility event
June 25, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University will host the commissioning of the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility on Tuesday, July 9, at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The event will feature speakers from the U.S. Department of...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

New Mexico group wins money to educate public on climate science
June 20, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With interest in climate change heating up, a New Mexico group has won a $3,000 American Chemical Society Presidential Climate Science Challenge Grant to help educate the public on climate science issues. The award to the Central New Mexico section of the ACS will help the group...
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Sandia hosts annual Robot Rodeo
June 17, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories is hosting the seventh annual Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise, a lively and challenging five-day event that draws civilian and military bomb squad teams from across the country to see who can most effect…
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Robot Rodeo

High-impact Sandia physicist publishes technical, yet personal, memoir
June 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is in a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course of research at particle accelerators around the world. His experiments in the mid-1990s made the Z accelerator a more effective candidate to achieve peacetime fusion...
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