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Sandia, Stirling to build solar dish engine power plant

November 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) of Phoenix to build and test six new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that will provide enough grid-...

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SANDIA RESEARCHER Chuck Andraka makes adjustments to a Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. solar dish-engine system installed at Sandia's National Solar Test Facility earlier this year. Five more will be erected by January as test units.

Search and rescue group uses Sandia synthetic aperture radar

November 4, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A radar, originally developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.

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SAR FOR SAR — Sandia researcher Bill Scherzinger, president of the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council, looks at a SAR map and a standard topographic map used in search and rescue missions.

Z’s $61.7 million refurbishment to advance fusion machine’s capabilities

October 21, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine, which last year emitted neutrons to enter the race to provide the world virtually unlimited electricity from, essentially, seawater, has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to...

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Z in the instant of its firing. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘z-machine.jpg’, 1.3MB (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.)

State’s business & education leaders to discuss learning initiatives for job growth

October 19, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To attract new high tech businesses and jobs to New Mexico, the state’s business, government, and academic institutions must collaborate to develop an educational infrastructure and workforce that offers the right engineering skills and manufacturing...

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Homeland Security Conference set for Nov. 16-19

October 13, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The third annual regional Homeland Security Conference will be held Nov. 16-19 at the Albuquerque Uptown Marriott.

Categories: Homeland security

Nanotechnology research funding list now live at Sandia/LANL CINT website

September 30, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nanotech researchers can shorten their search for funding by visiting the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) Internet site (www.sandia.gov/cint or www.lanl.gov/cint). There, a searchable database of federal government nanotechnology funding...

Categories: Nanotechnology

Oct. 5 ceremony to celebrate completion of new $22 million WETL facility in Amarillo

September 29, 2004 • AMARILLO, TEXAS — Area news media are invited to a ceremony Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. marking the completion of construction of the new Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory (WETL) at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.

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Workmen add finishing touches to the WETL building. This is a view from the front.

Device allows naked eye to see motion of 10 nanometers

September 29, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known.

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Two Sandians honored with Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards

September 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have been notified they are to receive achievement awards from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC).

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Juan Ramirez with a young friend in Chetumal, Mexico.

Sandia researcher wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

September 9, 2004 • Washington, D.C. — Dr. Tamara Kolda, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in California, is one of 57 young scientists from around the country to be selected for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation’s highest honor for...

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Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars and create additional solar power sources

September 8, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A method that uses roughly only one-hundredth the fresh water customarily needed to grow forage for livestock may leave much more water available for human consumption, as well as for residential and industrial uses. As a byproduct, it also may add formerly...

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FRUGAL FORAGE — Ron Pate of Sandia National Laboratories checks a tray of forage in a greenhouse just north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Department of Homeland Security’s Charles McQueary to visit Sandia, Lawrence Livermore national labs in honor of September 11

September 7, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Dr. Charles E. McQueary, Under Secretary for Science and Technology for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will deliver a speech at Sandia National Laboratories’ California site the morning of Friday, September 10, at Sandia’s CRF Auditorium...

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Sandia helps Navy in shaping future of aircraft carrier operations

September 7, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories are helping the U.S. Navy create the next generation of aircraft carriers by reviewing and analyzing current Carrier Air Wing flight operations, maintenance, and...

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System review — Sandia engineer Jeff Brewer uses a “system of systems” approach to help the U.S. Navy create the next generation of aircraft carriers.

Sandia restarts CREM operations

September 1, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has restarted its operations involving Classified Removable Electronic Media (CREM).

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Simple method may improve computer memory, catalysts, ceramic/metal seals, and nanodevices

August 6, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A method that creates smooth and strong interfaces between metals and metal oxides without high-temperature brazing has been patented by researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National...

Categories: Nanotechnology

Sandia researchers and Livermore Police Department successfully demonstrate viability of “sensor management architecture” for rapid deployment of detection system

August 4, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — While some 15,000 Livermore residents and visitors enjoyed barbecues, music, picnics, and other Fourth of July festivities, Sandia National Laboratories researchers and their counterparts at the City of Livermore Police Department (LPD) were using the...

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Livermore Police Department’s Community Outreach Vehicle served as the command post for the City’s 4th of July celebrations and was the primary monitoring location for LPD and Sandia staff involved in the SMA testing.

US, Russian lab directors advocate global expansion of new nuclear energy technologies

August 2, 2004 • VIENNA, Austria — Representatives of seven U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories and nine Russian scientific nuclear organizations have developed a joint document that advocates greater global use of nuclear energy.

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Unique Sandia facility celebrates 10 years of making the world a safer place

July 28, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) celebrates its 10th anniversary on Thursday, July 29, with a series of speakers that reflect the Center’s international missions. (See speakers list below.)

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Kent Biringer (center) of Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) shows Nazir Kamal (left), an international relations expert from Pakistan, and Pravin Sawhney, a journalist and former major in the Indian army, a model of a nuclear missile in this 1998 photo taken at the CMC. Kamal and Sawhney were at Sandia as visiting scholars investigating missile transparency between their two countries as part of the CMC’s ongoing Visiting Scholars program.

Red Storm to be assembled in New Mexico

July 27, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Red Storm will be faster, yet smaller and less expensive, than previous supercomputers, say researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, where the machine will be assembled.

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Labs locates floppy disk

July 16, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has located a floppy disk that had turned up missing in a recent inventory. The floppy disk, which had been marked classified, was found about 1 p.m. today (Friday). Sandia had reported the disk as missing June 30 in a wall-to-...

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Sandia Labs searches for missing floppy disk

July 15, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is searching for a missing floppy disk that was marked classified.

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Sandia wins two R&D 100 Awards

July 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories research teams have won R&D 100 Awards in the annual competition sponsored by the Chicago-based R&D Magazine.

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CHRISTINE MITCHELL looks through a substrate that was made for the new cantilever epitaxy growth process.

Sandia partners with DOE in science education initiative

July 8, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Science Education Initiative announced today by U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham will have strong support from Sandia National Laboratories, which already has a long history of community, hands-on science learning programs.

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$6 million appropriation to focus Sandia research on drinking water desalination, removal of arsenic

June 28, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Research in the areas of desalination and removal of arsenic in water will step up at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories over the next few years, the result of a $6 million allocation in the FY2004 federal Energy and...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia establishes CRADA with FM Global

June 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories’ Engineering Sciences Center, and its Fire Science and Technology Department, have established a collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA) with FM Global, a large-los...

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