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Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab at Sandia bars none
May 25, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s a tiny hidden gem at Sandia National Laboratories that tests the strength and evaluates the impact properties of any solid natural or manmade material on the planet. From its humble beginnings as a small storage room, mechanical engineer Bo Song has built a singular Experimental Impact...
Categories: Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
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EIML Bo Song

Global security and cooperation leader recognized by NNSA for leadership, service
December 3, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rodney Wilson, former director of Sandia’s Center for Global Security and Cooperation, received the National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator’s Distinguished Service Gold Award in recognition of his leadership and service to advance NNSA programs. The plaque, signed by former Administrator Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, recognized Wilson’s contributions to...
Categories: Awards, Nonproliferation
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Rodney Wilson

How to multitask when nuclear nonproliferation is on the line
September 29, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New cognitive science research from Sandia National Laboratories shows that while maps can help someone identify landmarks while being escorted, using one also limits situational awareness and knowledge of surroundings not highlighted on the map. This finding is one of several coming from a three-year project that...
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Cognitive safeguards

Earthquake or underground explosion?
August 7, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers, as part of a group of National Nuclear Security Administration scientists, have wrapped up years of field experiments to improve the United States’ ability to differentiate earthquakes from underground explosions, key knowledge needed to advance the nation’s monitoring and verification capabilities for detecting...
Categories: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering
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New radiation detectors developed at Sandia used for New START inspections
February 1, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories designed, tested and delivered new radiation detection equipment for monitoring under the New START Treaty. Defense Threat Reduction Agency inspectors recently used this equipment for the first time in Russia for a New START inspection. New START, or the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty,...
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A man in profile scans three white canisters with a brass box -- the new neutron detection equipment

Scintillating discovery at Sandia Labs
June 29, 2017 • Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection science LIVERMORE, Calif. — Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of scintillators — objects that detect nuclear threats. According to the team, using organic glass scintillators could soon make it even...
Categories: Homeland security, Materials Science, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Side-by-side comparison of scintillators made from trans-stilbene and organic glass.

Exploring the evolution of nuclear deterrence through interviews, historical footage
February 28, 2017, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories explores the evolution of nuclear deterrence in a new documentary that combines modern and historical footage with a wide range of interviews. On Deterrence features interviews with former secretaries of defense, general officers, policymakers, analysts, scholars and scientists with varied viewpoints to describe the...
Categories: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons
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Looking from space for nuclear detonations
August 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Jaime Gomez was too busy to celebrate the successful launch of the latest nuclear detonation detection system — he was already deep into the next generation. The Global Burst Detection (GBD) system launched Feb. 5 from Cape Canaveral aboard the 70th Global Positioning System...
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Sandia inks emergency response pact with California Fire and Rescue Training Authority
March 30, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories and the California Fire and Rescue Training Authority (CFRTA) this month signed a memorandum of agreement to develop new concepts and capabilities for emergency planning, exercise and response. The agreement was signed by Marianne Walck, vice president of Sandia’s California site and the Energy...
Categories: Homeland security, Nonproliferation
MOA signing

Chinese nuclear security center opens with help from Sandia Labs
March 24, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Principal Deputy Administrator Madelyn Creedon, Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Jill Hruby and other experts and international guests joined with leaders of China on March 18 to commission the Chinese Center of Excellence (COE)...
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Jill Hruby

Workhorse gamma ray generator HERMES III fires its 10,000th shot at Sandia Labs
September 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source, better known as HERMES III, has fired its 10,000th shot at Sandia National Laboratories. HERMES III, the world’s most powerful gamma ray generator, produces a highly energetic beam that tests how well electronics can survive a burst of radiation that approximates...
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New vice president to oversee energy, security, nonproliferation research at Sandia
September 8, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has appointed James M. Chavez vice president of its Energy, Nonproliferation and High Consequence Security Division and its International, Homeland and Nuclear Security Program Management Unit effective Sept. 11. He replaces Jill Hruby, who became Sandia president and labs director in July. Most recently,...
Categories: Homeland security, HR / Personnel, Nonproliferation
James Chavez

Sandia tamper-detecting seal is tough to fool
July 7, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A critical area of security is ensuring that something inside a container stays there. Sandia National Laboratories has made the job easier with an innovative technology that detects signs of tampering. “In our world, one advance by an adversary can make a security technology obsolete overnight,” said...
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New Sandia director will be first woman to lead national security lab
June 22, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jill M. Hruby today was named the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories, the country’s largest national lab. She will be the first woman to lead a national security laboratory when she steps into her new role July 17. A Sandia staff member and manager...
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Jill Hruby

MINER shines in urban emergency response exercise
October 30, 2014 • Mobile imager of fast neutrons spots radiation source at a distance and through shielding LIVERMORE, Calif. — A nuclear device has been hidden in a high-rise building in a major metropolitan area. Emergency responders have intelligence that narrows down the location to a single city block, but it isn’t safe...
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Sandia completes major overhaul of key nuclear weapons test facilities
May 8, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories recently completed the renovation of five large-scale test facilities that are crucial to ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons systems. The work supports Sandia’s ongoing nuclear stockpile modernization work on the B61-12 and W88 Alt, assessments of current stockpile systems...
Categories: History, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
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3D Earth model developed at Sandia Labs more accurately pinpoints source of earthquakes, explosions
August 22, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – During the Cold War, U.S. and international monitoring agencies could spot nuclear tests and focused on measuring their sizes. Today, they’re looking around the globe to pinpoint much smaller explosives tests. Under the sponsorship of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, Sandia...
Categories: Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Radiation detection to go
August 14, 2013 • Mobile radiation detectors deployed at international ports ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team completed acceptance testing on an enormous mobile scanner that makes smuggling radiological materials more difficult, the eighth such unit that Sandia has deployed worldwide. The Mobile Radiation Detection and Identification System (MRDIS) enables scanning of...
Categories: Homeland security, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
MRDIS in Oman

Sandia National Laboratories hosts NATO visitors
May 10, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — NATO delegates toured Sandia National Laboratories during a three-day visit highlighting the labs’ programs that support extended deterrence to U.S. allies, as well as broader national security programs ranging from homeland security to preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The visitors included more than 50...
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Sandia airborne pods seek to trace nuclear bomb’s origins
January 9, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If a nuclear device were to unexpectedly detonate anywhere on Earth, the ensuing effort to find out who made the weapon probably would be led by aircraft rapidly collecting airborne radioactive particles for  analysis. Relatively inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — equipped with radiation sensors and specialized...
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Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection
June 29, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. Known as spectral shape discrimination (SSD), the method takes advantage of a new class of nanoporous...
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Award-winning Sandia Labs engineer trods global path of nonproliferation
June 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Adam Williams of Sandia National Laboratories won a 2012 Black Engineer of the Year Award for his work in international security and nonproliferation. Williams was named Most Promising Engineer-Government in the prestigious BEYA program, which recognizes some of the nation’s best and brightest engineers, scientists and technology...
Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nonproliferation, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia’s Annular Core Research Reactor conducts 10,000th operation
October 31, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – With a muffled “pop,” a flash of blue light and a few ripples through 14,000 gallons of deionized water, Sandia National Laboratories’ Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) recently conducted its 10,000th operation. “The ACRR has been a real workhorse for Sandia, and labs leadership and the nation...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
ACRR
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