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Sandia Hosts International Forum on Radiation Sensors

July 15, 1996 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Given the threat by rogue dictators and terrorist organizations who wish to acquire their own nuclear weapons, there is a critical need for sensors that can detect the storage, transport or trade of weapons grade nuclear materials from greater distances...

Categories: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Theorist Peter Feibelman Wins Top Physics Prize

July 9, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A Sandia National Laboratories theoretical physicist who says he wants his science to make a difference "in the real world" has been selected as the recipient of one of the top honors in physics.

Categories: Awards

Sandia Teams With New Mexico Universities to Offer First-of-a-Kind Security Engineering Courses

July 3, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Floods. Terrorism. All four have potential to result in deadly catastrophes, yet only one is the product of human maliciousness. Anticipating and preventing tragedies caused by human intent has been a primary focus of Sandia National...

Categories: Community / Education

Sandia Receives Award for Diversity Efforts

June 27, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sandia National Laboratories recently received an award from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) in recognition of the Labs' workforce diversity program, introduced three years ago at both the New Mexico and California sites. Termed the...

Categories: Awards

Faster Computer Code Offers Defense, Industrial, and Possible Medical Benefits

June 5, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A computer program revised to function up to 300 times faster, the better to simulate radiation effects of nuclear explosions, has improved the capability for more precise radiation treatment for cancer patients, say scientists at Sandia National Laboratories.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Labs Shares Major Solar Success With Industrial Consortium

June 5, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Solar Two, a large pilot solar power plant capable of producing 10 megawatts of electricity, was dedicated today in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, Calif. Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories here played a key role in developing this innovative solar...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Simple Method Monitors Thin-Film Stress to Improve Electronic, Magnetic, Optical Devices

June 3, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Using a low-power laser similar to those at supermarket checkout counters and a half-dollar-sized piece of specially coated optical glass, a simple, reliable method to determine stresses in very thin films of materials used in advanced electronic, optical...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Innovative Data Retrieval Technology Helps Labs Preserve Weapons Technology Knowledge

June 3, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A melding of new data retrieval technology and the memories of veteran weapons project managers and designers is helping Sandia National Laboratories preserve 20th century technology to ensure responsible stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Computer-Based SmartProcesses That Serve DOE Weapons Complex Can Also Cut Costs and Increase for U.S. Manufacturers

May 31, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Defense Programs Office and cooperative research and development agreements with private industry, Sandia National Laboratories is developing a number of computer-based systems that can serve the nation's...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

First Working Device Made With Extreme Ultraviolet Lithograph

May 16, 1996 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The world's first working microelectronic device to be made with extreme ultraviolet light has been fabricated at Sandia National Laboratories/California.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

A Study in School Security: Sandia Works With Belen High To Develop Security Program

May 1, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- With a blueprint of Belen High School and some understanding of security technologies, more than 150 students will work together this month to design the technology layout for improving security at their school.

Categories: Community / Education

Supercomputer Helps Track Underground Waste in 3-D

April 25, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Four hours, 17 minutes, 46 seconds - less time than it takes most Americans to figure their taxes.

Categories: Computing

Pulsed Power Accelerator Achieves Record-Breaking X-ray Outputs

April 24, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A pulsed power accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories has in recent weeks quadrupled its output and demonstrated its ability to pump out 85 terawatts of power -- more than 50 times the output of the U.S. utility grid -- causing scientists to revise...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia and General Motors Collaborating to Develop Improved Coating for Car Engines and Defense Applications

April 18, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors are working together to develop an economical way to make durable aluminum engines by spraying a wear-resistant coating onto the cylinder walls.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Neutron Generator Facility Opens, Marks a Major Milestone of New Production Mission

April 11, 1996 • They don't make cookies -- the round silicon wafers used for microcircuits -- there anymore, but Sandia National Laboratories' "cookie factory," is back in the production business. The 91,000-square-foot Neutron Generator Facility, which emerged out of the remains of the cookie..

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Low-Cost Energy Beam Commercialized by Sandia Researchers

April 9, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- With exclusive license to relevant patents, two researchers from Sandia National Laboratories are commercializing an energy beam that has demonstrated an extraordinary number of practical applications.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Intelligent Multipurpose Micromachines Made at Sandia

March 15, 1996 • In the past two years, a succession of increasingly powerful micromachines have been developed by a team of Sandia researchers. Now they've made smart ones.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

CRADA Focuses on New Technology for Manufacturing Ceramics

March 7, 1996 • A cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to develop improved tech-nologies for manufacturing advanced ceramic components was signed last month in Albuquerque, N.M.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Labs’ Computer Expertise Helping to Demystify Dinosaur

March 6, 1996 • Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, working with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and The State Museum of Pennsylvania, are applying computer models developed for the Department of Energy to help unravel some of the mystery surrounding...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Economic Model That “Learns” From Mistakes Could Analyze Flat Tax, NAFTA, GATT

March 1, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A prototype economic model developed on one of the world's fastest supercomputers is including data about human beings to an extent never achieved before.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Works with Automobile Industry To Control Process for Heating Steel Parts

February 27, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A computer control system developed in a cooperative project between Sandia National Laboratories and Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems is saving the automobile parts maker time and money by improving a 50-year-old process that hardens steel parts.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia-Designed Downhole Probe Saves Oil Industry Money by Providing Temperature Data for Treating Paraffin Problems

February 16, 1996 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- A small probe that can be inserted into a wellbore to measure downhole temperatures could save the American oil industry millions of dollars by allowing more effective treatment for paraffin accumulations in oil wells.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia to Test Law Enforcement Technologies for U.S. Department of Justice

January 28, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) announced this week that it has named Sandia National Laboratories a Satellite Facility to support the Institute's multi-disciplinary science and technology development program. NIJ is the research and development branc

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

SARGE Robot is Latest Battlefield Standard

January 19, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- For years, both the Army and the Marines have been seeking to develop battlefield robots that could reduce risk to soldiers by performing some of their more dangerous duties. SARGE, the latest in a long line of prototype battlefield robots, is designed...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia’s Technology Licensing Program Helping Industry

January 15, 1996 • Seventy-four current and former Sandia National Laboratories employees have been recognized for inventingproducts or writing computer software that are now helping industry. The technology was transferred to U.S. industry throughSandia's intellectual property licensing...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

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