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In ‘Dingo King’ exercise, simulated nuclear accident overcome by real-world cooperation

November 15, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — While Hurricane Katrina was deciding whether to travel up the East Coast or strike New Orleans, a disaster repair crew off the coast of southernmost Georgia was working to raise the sunken host missile for a nuclear weapon.

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Fourth Annual Homeland Security Conference to be held in Albuquerque this week

November 15, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The fourth annual statewide Homeland Security Conference will be held Nov. 16-18 at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North (5151 San Francisco Rd. NE).

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Sandia to conduct regional workshop in Kansas City to help gauge nation’s energy and water concerns

November 10, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop in Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 15-16, designed to help gauge future energy and water concerns of water and electric utilities, environmental organizations, policy...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Airport protection guidelines to be distributed to emergency planners and airport executives

November 10, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A published report developed by a joint team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is being distributed to airport executives and emergency planners and is expected to aid security managers...

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Sandia to help New Mexico water systems lower arsenic levels in supplies

November 8, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico water systems don’t have to deal with meeting new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arsenic standards on their own.

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Sandia to help New Mexico water systems lower arsenic levels in supplies

November 8, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico water systems don’t have to deal with meeting new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arsenic standards on their own.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia’s Al Romig receives National Materials Advancement Award

November 3, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —— Al Romig, deputy director for Integrated Technologies and Systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, will receive the National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies at...

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Al Romig, Sandia deputy director for Integrated Technologies and Systems.

Sandia enters into agreement with The Aerospace Corporation

November 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —— As part of an agreement to identify opportunities for interactive research and development in a broad range of scientific areas, Sandia and The Aerospace Corporation recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU).

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Sandia researchers determine that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement

October 29, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A research team from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories has discovered that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement. The research shows that more deadly spores remain after decontamination than previously...

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Mollye Wilson demonstrates sample collection techniques.

How-to book published on laser beam-shaping applications

October 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Following up on their well-received first book, Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Fred Dickey and Scott Holswade have edited (with David Shealy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham) a compact new...

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Sandia demonstrates device for preventing battlefield friendly fire

October 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories, along with partners General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and Sierra Monolithics Inc., demonstrated the Athena Radar-Responsive Tag during Exercise “Urgent Quest” in the United Kingdom (Salisbury Plains Training Area) ...

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Athena can be used to identify both U.S. and coalition forces during combat to avoid friendly fire.

Future of War Think-Fest produces many sparks

October 26, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Will women’s rights groups fall in the battle against religious extremism? Will the elderly monitor battlefields remotely, viewing monitors that free younger people for other tasks? Will blogs fragment the opinions of conventional media? Will international...

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ACG leader and Sandia VP and principal scientist Gerry Yonas (left) discusses ideas with participants.

Pilot Sandia treatment system that removes arsenic from water to be demonstrated Oct. 10 at Rio Rancho well site

October 5, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A pilot treatment system developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories that tests technologies to remove arsenic from water, supplied by a number of vendors, will be demonstrated at a Rio Rancho well site on...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia retiree Richard Pettit receives metrology, measurement science award

September 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories retiree Richard Pettit has received the 2005 William Wildhack Award from the National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI).

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Sandia retiree Dick Pettit received the National Conference of Standards Laboratories International’s William Wildhack Award at the NCSLI annual workshop and symposium Aug. 8 in Washington, D.C.

Two Sandia microChemLab technologies soon to be checking for toxins in the nation’s water supplies

September 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two technologies developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories are expected to soon be checking for toxins and harmful bacteria in the nation’s water supplies. Both are based on the microChemLab.

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Sandia researcher Jay West calibrates an instrument as part of a project to determine the steps necesary to identify toxins in drinking water.

Sandians Nancy Jackson, John DeBassige to receive AISES professional of the year awards

September 26, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The national American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) has selected Sandia National Laboratories employees Nancy Jackson and John DeBassige to receive the 2nd Annual Professional of the Year awards. The awards will be presented at the AISES...

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Sandia’s massive MESA construction continues on course

September 15, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ half-billion-dollar MESA project is two-thirds complete, with its final building — the Weapons Integration Facility — “over a third done,” says construction project manager Bill Jenkins.

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This aerial image of the WIF construction site shows the recent state of construction of MESA’s final building.

Nanotechnology facilities, enhanced by thousand-year-old decorative style, near completion

September 15, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A two-story-high, 450-foot-long wall surface with rock chipped flat — reminiscent of the thousand-year-old stonework at New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon archaeological site — cuts across the three laboratory wings of the new core facility of the Center for...

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CINT Rising — The hub facility of Sandia/Los Alamos joint Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies rises north of Kirtland Air Force Base. The building's three wings house a characterization lab containing the most vibration sensitive instruments, a synthesis lab that includes chemical and biological labs, and an integration facility which includes a Class 1000 clean room and mobile clean rooms with higher ratings.

Sandia conducts tests at Solar Tower to benefit future NASA space explorations

September 7, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA’s future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.

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Solar power heats NASA space shield material. The tests apply heat equivalent to 1,500 suns to spacecraft shields.

Asteroid dust may influence weather, study finds

August 25, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth’s weather more than previously believed, researchers have found.

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The asteroid's dust trail as seen by lidar at Davis, Antarctica. The plot shows the strength of the vertical laser light scattered back from the atmosphere as a function of time and altitude above mean sea level. The dust trail, blown by the stratospheric winds, moved through the beam.

Sandia researchers to study techniques for arsenic removal from drinking water

August 24, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next several months a team of researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will be studying different methods of arsenic removal at the Desert Sands Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association (MDWCA)...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia researchers Malcolm Siegel and Malynda Aragon check out the arsenic treatment system that was built at Sandia and recently relocated to the Desert Sands utility.

Sandia’s dielectrophoresis device may revolutionize sample preparation

August 23, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have developed an enhancement to a well known “force phenomenon” called dielectrophoresis that they say could revolutionize the way biological sample preparation is conducted. Sandia is actively...

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Sandia’s Eric Cummings visually inspects an iDEP device for proper alignment before evaluating it with a fluorescent microscope. Among other potential applications, iDEP may allow for protein isolation and concentration, sample concentration and focusing, analytical chemistry, and mass spectrometry for proteomics and drug discovery.

Sandia assists NASA with several shuttle projects

August 17, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Several Sandia National Laboratories projects were instrumental in helping NASA with its Space Shuttle Discovery’s return-to-flight mission (STS-114).

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Sandia’s orbitor inspection sensor was attached to Discovery's robotic arm.

ElectroNeedles may provide diabetes patients a painless way to check blood glucose levels

August 2, 2005 • Albuquerque, N.M.— Two tiny devices recently developed by researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories could mean the elimination of blood drawing by diabetes patients to test glucose levels or by medical personnel to determine if...

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JEB FLEMMING, project lead for the ElectroNeedle platform, holds a test version of the device. The prickly parts are in the center of the package. A production version could be even smaller and simpler.

Jaime Moya awarded HENAAC Award for Professional Achievement

August 2, 2005 • Albuquerque, N.M.— Jaime Moya, a senior manager for ES&H Planning & Assurance at Sandia National Laboratories, is the winner of a 2005 Award for Professional Achievement from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation. The award will be presented at the 2005...

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