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First stop, Colorado?
October 31, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—More powerful than an ordinary locomotive and expected to climb steep mountains without losing traction, Seraphim - a simpler, less expensive US alternative to the magnetically levitated (maglev) trains of Europe and Japan - is now funded for development at...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Artist’s rendering of a proposed Seraphim-powered transit system.

Sandia to push nuclear vessel model until it ‘pops’
October 19, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the unlikely event of a severe nuclear power plant accident such as a reactor core meltdown, the steel pressure vessel that holds the uranium rods at the heart of a nuclear plant is designed to withstand extremely high internal pressures and temperatures...
Categories: Nuclear Weapons
Sandia National Laboratories test engineer Richard Simpson measures a weld seam inside a 1/5-scale model lower-head assembly.

Influencing structure in the heart of nanoland
October 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pianos and cars may be tuned with wrenches and screwdrivers, but the old clunky tools just won’t do to adjust the sizes of trillions of nanoscopic pores in fine filters, sensors, or diffraction gratings to make them work better.
Categories: Nanotechnology
A graphic representation of light influencing the pore size of a self assembled nanostructure. The area struck by light is being shrunk.

Sandia materials model wins R&D 100 award
September 27, 2000 • LIVERMORE, CA — A research group led by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories has won an R&D 100 award for innovative technology from R&D Magazine. The team created materials modeling software to optimize design of automotive parts and reduce waste in heat...
Categories: Awards
BREAKTHROUGH — Three members of the team that won an R&D 100 award for technological innovation at Sandia this year, (from left to right) Doug Bammann, Mark Horstemeyer and Mike Chiesa, display a control arm from a Cadillac steering system, a part designed with their winning mechanical-property code. This potentially revolutionary code allowed the part to be designed with a nearly 30 percent weight savings, and accurately predicted where the part would break during mechanical testing.

Method receives thumbs up from industry
September 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new way to safely, simply and effectively connect electricity-producing photovoltaic (PV) solar systems to utility company power grids has been developed by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. Already several manufacturers have...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water
NEW CONTROL METHOD — The new technology developed by Sandia researchers will make it more attractive for people to use photovoltaics and other forms of alternate energy because they can be more easily connected to the electric grid.

SBA awards Sandia its Dwight Eisenhower Award for Excellence
July 28, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has presented Sandia with its Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence (Research and Development category) at the 33rd Annual Joint Industry/SBA Procurement Conference/Business Opportunity Expo held in Washington..
Categories: Awards

Keep telling yourself: “The Red Team is my friend…”
July 24, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the past two years, a group at Sandia National Laboratories known informally as the Red Team has, at customer invitation, either successfully invaded or devised successful mock attacks on 35 out of 35 information systems at various sites, along with...
Categories: Computing
Comin’ at you — Sandia’s Information Design Assurance Red Team, good guys playing bad guys, seeks out weaknesses in computer systems.
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