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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 p…
Categories: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Operations / Budget
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NATO visit

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...
Categories: Military / Defense, Nonproliferation
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Northrop Grumman, GE partnerships tap wide range of Sandia Labs expertise
November 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has signed a pair of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that could broadly add to the Labs’ research into combustion, defense, energy and nuclear security. The umbrella CRADAs, which enable Sandia and its partners to pursue multiple projects in a variety of categories,...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept
September 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Magnetically imploded tubes called liners, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific “break-even” energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests, according to a Sandia research paper accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters (PRL). To exceed scientific break-even is...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
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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 wins four R&D 100 Awards
June 20, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured four prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Nuclear Weapons, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Neutron generator

National Nuclear Science Week celebrates nuclear everything from energy to safety to medicine
January 19, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Each day during National Nuclear Science Week, Jan. 23-27, some 250 middle school and high school students will pack the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History for hands-on activities that span the breadth of the nuclear world.They will work o…
Categories: Community / Education, Nuclear Weapons
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Periodic Table

Big machines: two radiation generators mark major milestones in helping protect the U.S.
September 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two remarkable pulsed-power machines used to test the nation’s defenses against atomic weapons have surpassed milestones at Sandia National Laboratories: 4,000 firings, called ‘shots,’ on the Saturn accelerator and 9,000 shots on the HERMES III accelerator. Saturn — originally projected to last 5 to 10 years — began...
Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
The Rings of Saturn

New thermal battery manufacturing method to be industrialized under Sandia, ATB research agreement
June 1, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A new thin-film coating process for manufacturing thermal batteries used in nuclear weapons and other munitions that was invented at Sandia National Laboratories will be industrialized under a new corporate partnership with a Maryland company. The process could lead to create lighter batteries in a variety of...
Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Frank Delnick

Second Z plutonium “shot” safely tests materials for NNSA
May 11, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that researchers from Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories have completed their second experiment in the past six months at Sandia’s Z machine to explore the properties of plutonium materials under extreme pressures and temperatures. The information is used...
Categories: Materials Science, Nuclear Weapons
Z Machine

Tri-Lab Directors’ Statement on the Nuclear Posture Review
April 9, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The directors of the three Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories – Dr. George Miller from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Dr. Michael Anastasio from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dr. Tom Hunter from S…
Categories: Nuclear Weapons

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.
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