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Sandia to put nuclear waste storage canisters to the test

December 9, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is outfitting three 22.5-ton, 16.5-feet-long stainless-steel storage canisters with heaters and instrumentation to simulate nuclear waste so researchers can study their durability. The three canisters, which arrived in mid-November and have never contained any nuclear materials, will be used to study how much salt...

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking, corrosion, dry storage canister, dry storage cask, Nuclear energy, nuclear waste, salt, spent fuel

Sandia hosts Education With Industry officer

December 8, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With the resiliency and determination that earned her the U.S. Air Force call sign “Fenix,” Capt. Justine Wolff is using her position as an Education With Industry student at Sandia National Laboratories to better herself and the Air Force. “How great of an opportunity this is to...

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: Air Force, Education With Industry, missile maintenance, munitions, nuclear deterrence

Global security and cooperation leader recognized by NNSA for leadership, service

December 3, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rodney Wilson, former director of Sandia’s Center for Global Security and Cooperation, received the National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator’s Distinguished Service Gold Award in recognition of his leadership and service to advance NNSA programs. The plaque, signed by former Administrator Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, recognized Wilson’s contributions to...

Categories: Awards, Nonproliferation

Topics: Center for Global Security and Cooperation, engineering sciences, international security, nuclear security

Flight tests to show B61-12 will work on Air Force’s newest fighter jet

November 23, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A mock B61-12’s strike in the dusty Nevada desert successfully completed the first in a series of flight tests with the U.S. Air Force’s newest fighter jet, demonstrating the bomb’s first release from an internal bomb bay at greater than the speed of sound. The flight test...

Categories: Coronavirus, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B-2, B61-12, F-15E, F-35A, flight test, Life Extension Program, nuclear deterrence, Tonopah Test Range, U.S. Air Force

An F-35A drops a B61-12 over Sandia's Tonopah Test Range.

Materials developed at Sandia help extinguish solar panel fires before they ignite

November 19, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As solar panels become popular and their voltages increase, there is a need to have built-in capabilities to extinguish fires caused by arc-faults, which are high-power discharges of electricity that can create explosions or flash events due to damaged wires. Sandia National Laboratories researcher Kenny Armijo has...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: arc-fault generator, arc-fault prevention, arc-faults, Guardian Sensors, in-line connectors, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, LDRD, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA

Sandia secures six regional technology transfer awards

November 18, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology, and creatively working with companies, Sandia National Laboratories won six prestigious regional 2020 Federal Laboratory Consortium awards. The awards for the Mid-Continent and Far West regions put a spotlight on Sandia successes...

Categories: Awards, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: BayoTech, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRADA, DragonSCALES, ducted fuel injection, Federal Laboratory Consortium, flc, FLC Awards, intellectual property, IP, licensing, mPower, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, Rapid Technology Deployment Program

Students of nuclear security have a problem. Here’s how to help them.

November 12, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Radioactive materials are attractive targets to thieves and other bad actors. These are rare finds, valuable on the black market and relatively easy to weaponize. New security professionals rarely learn practical skills for protecting these targets until they are on the job at nuclear power plants, research...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: education, nuclear security, University of New Mexico

Mechanical engineer at Sandia named Asian American Engineer of the Year

November 10, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Bo Song has been recognized as an Asian American Engineer of the Year by the national DiscoverE Program, which honors outstanding Asian American professionals in science and engineering for their technical achievements, leadership and public service. “This is a big honor for...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: asian american engineer, diversity, engineers, impact mechanics, mechanical engineering

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

November 9, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Overcoming COVID-19 pandemic challenges through virtual means, teams from Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. 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...

Categories: Coronavirus, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B61-12, coronavirus, COVID-19, Edwards Air Force Base, F-35A, nuclear deterrence, nuclear weapons, U.S. Air Force

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

October 29, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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....

Categories: Awards, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, community, computer science, diversity, diversity and inclusion, engineer, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, STEM

‘Iconic’ Sandia researcher wins Indigenous Excellence Award

October 28, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Her peers know her as an exceptional engineer. But to some Indigenous people, Sandra Begay is legendary. “Like many Native American students in STEM, I knew of Sandra before I met her,” said Suzanne Singer, who is Navajo and interned under Begay at Sandia National Laboratories in...

Categories: Awards

Topics: American Indian, clean energy, diversity, mentoring

Record neutron numbers at Sandia Labs’ Z machine fusion experiments

October 27, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam has achieved its own record output of neutrons — a key standard by which fusion efforts are judged — at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: ;high yield, break-even, energy, fusion, laser, magLIF, magnetic, plasma, Z

First companies picked for Sandia’s new Mentor-Protégé Program

October 26, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has selected three companies as its first protégés in a new partnership program designed to help small businesses develop and build solid foundations when competing for federal and industry opportunities. “Sandia was looking for small businesses that wanted to grow and learn, and we...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: CeLeen, mentor-protege, Pluma, small business, Stategic Industry

small-business program manager Paul Sedillo presenting to small-business representatives and owners during a forum last year

Hispanic organization honors nuclear waste management leader, cyber assurance architect

October 15, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two experts at Sandia National Laboratories have been honored for their achievements and leadership as top engineers and scientists from the Hispanic community. Evaristo “Tito” Bonano, nuclear energy fuel cycle senior manager, and cyber assurance architect Angela “Ang” Rivas were recognized at the 32nd annual Hispanic Engineer...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diversity, HENAAC, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, nuclear waste, nuclear waste management, software security, STEM

Material found in house paint may spur technology revolution

October 14, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The development of a new method to make non-volatile computer memory may have unlocked a problem that has been holding back machine learning and has the potential to revolutionize technologies like voice recognition, image processing and autonomous driving. A team from Sandia National Laboratories, working with collaborators...

Categories: Computing, Materials Science

Topics: Advanced Scientific Computing Research branch, alec talin, computing, machine learning, oxygen vacancies, processors

Fellow at Sandia Labs appointed to national quantum computing advisory committee

October 13, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. Herrera is one of two committee members representing the Department of Energy national laboratories. He joins 20 others from government, industry and academia tasked with advising the nation’s...

Categories: Awards, Computing

Topics: advisory committee, quantum computing, quantum information science, Sandia Fellows

Machine-learning technique from Sandia Labs could improve fusion energy outputs

October 12, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Machine-learning techniques, best known for teaching self-driving cars to stop at red lights, may soon help researchers around the world improve their control over the most complicated reaction known to science: nuclear fusion. Fusion reactions are typically hydrogen atoms heated to form a gaseous cloud called a...

Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean energy, fusion, fusion reactors, machine learning

‘Magical’ mathematics unlocks engineering honor for Sandia scientist

October 9, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda of Sandia National Laboratories has spent a career finding mathematical patterns in data sets ranging from mouse neurons to crime statistics, so when she talks about how ‘magical’ the results seem, even experts in other fields take notice. Kolda was one of 87 members elected...

Categories: Awards

Topics: computational mathematics, machine learning, National Academy of Engineering, Tamara Kolda, tensors

Successful crash test meets major milestone for nuclear deterrence program

October 8, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A full-scale crash test involving a semitruck impacting the side of the first prototype of a new weapons transporter successfully took place at Sandia National Laboratories this summer. Using the labs’ sled track, rockets propelled the semitractor-trailer at highway speeds into the prototype, an over-the-road Mobile Guardian...

Categories: Coronavirus, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, crash test, MGT, mobile guardian transporter, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, Office of Secure Transportation, P1, sled track

Sandia helps safeguard biological data threatened during COVID-19 pandemic

October 6, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright LLC to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the United States and others issued warnings that hackers were using the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their activities. “In the past decade,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Computing, Coronavirus

Topics: biosecurity, COVID-19, cyber security, cyberattack, hackers

Turning up the heat on molten salt valves

October 5, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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 U.S. Control valves are a critical link in managing...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: concentrating solar power, Flowserve, Kairos Power, molten salt valve, solar power, sunshot, SunShot Initiative

50 million artificial neurons to facilitate machine-learning research at Sandia

October 2, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Fifty million artificial neurons — a number roughly equivalent to the brain of a small mammal — were delivered from Portland, Oregon-based Intel Corp. to Sandia National Laboratories last month, said Sandia project leader Craig Vineyard. The neurons will be assembled to advance a relatively new kind...

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: artificial intelligence, artificial neurons, Intel, machine learning, neuromorphic computer

Expanding testing capacity for Sandia weapons modernization programs

September 30, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Energy’s under secretary for nuclear security, joined Sandia National Laboratories Deputy Labs Director Dori Ellis and other Sandia leaders today for a tour of the newest facility in nuclear weapons systems engineering at Sandia’s...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: modernization, NNSA, nuclear weapons, stockpile, systems engineering

How to multitask when nuclear nonproliferation is on the line

September 29, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New cognitive science research from Sandia National Laboratories shows that while maps can help someone identify landmarks while being escorted, using one also limits situational awareness and knowledge of surroundings not highlighted on the map. This finding is one of several coming from a three-year project that...

Categories: Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cognitive science, international nuclear safeguards, knowledge transfer, Labortory Directed Research and Development, LDRD, Nuclear energy, visual inspection, wayfinding

Systems engineer a woman worth watching

September 23, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Carrie O’Hara, a systems engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a 2020 Women Worth Watching award winner by Profiles in Diversity Journal. The award, in its 19th year, recognizes dynamic professional women who are using their talents and influence to change our workplaces and...

Categories: Awards

Topics: awards, diversity, Profiles in Diversity Journal

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