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Fuel Cell Consortium Grew Out of Workshop Proposal

September 23, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The concept for the recently announced Russian/American Fuel Cell Consortium (RAFCO) was first proposed in May 1994 at the Third Entrepreneurial Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Department of Energy.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

New Computer Technology Dissolves Limitations to Traditional Design and Engineering Methods

September 6, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Traditional design and engineering constraints are being overcome with a new computer/robotics technology developed jointly by Sandia National Laboratories and Deneb Robotics, Inc. of Auburn Hills, Mich.

Categories: Computing

Sandia Scientists Win Grants For Fundamental Environmental Cleanup Research

August 20, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists who proposed methods to investigate or restore damaged environmental areas each have won grants of more than a million dollars from the Department of Energy to test the validity of their proposals.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

DOE Announces Major Agreement at Robotics Forum

July 23, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy today announced a five-year, $66 million cooperative research and development agreement between five DOE laboratories and a small California company.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia’s R&D 100 Awards Show Broad Range of Invention

July 18, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have won six R&D 100 Awards in this year's competition.

Categories: Awards

Dish-Stirling Solar Technology Showcased Near Olympics

July 15, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Viewers of the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta may catch a glimpse of a prototype solar dish system that engineers at Sandia National Laboratories helped to develop.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

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...

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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...

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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.

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Clouds Vs. The Sun: Clearing Up The Global Climate Forecast

May 15, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Even with satellite imagery and other high-tech tools, meteorologists have a difficult time forecasting tomorrow's weather today. How, then, can atmospheric scientists be expected to predict with any accuracy worldwide climates 10, 50, even 100 years from...

Categories: Climate Change

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.

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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

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Fuel Cell Consortium Grew Out of Workshop Proposal

New Computer Technology Dissolves Limitations to Traditional Design and Engineering Methods

Sandia Scientists Win Grants For Fundamental Environmental Cleanup Research

DOE Announces Major Agreement at Robotics Forum

Sandia’s R&D 100 Awards Show Broad Range of Invention

Dish-Stirling Solar Technology Showcased Near Olympics

Sandia Hosts International Forum on Radiation Sensors

Sandia Theorist Peter Feibelman Wins Top Physics Prize

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

Sandia Receives Award for Diversity Efforts

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

Sandia Labs Shares Major Solar Success With Industrial Consortium

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

Innovative Data Retrieval Technology Helps Labs Preserve Weapons Technology Knowledge

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

First Working Device Made With Extreme Ultraviolet Lithograph

Clouds Vs. The Sun: Clearing Up The Global Climate Forecast

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

Supercomputer Helps Track Underground Waste in 3-D

Pulsed Power Accelerator Achieves Record-Breaking X-ray Outputs

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

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

Low-Cost Energy Beam Commercialized by Sandia Researchers

Intelligent Multipurpose Micromachines Made at Sandia

CRADA Focuses on New Technology for Manufacturing Ceramics