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Scientists chip away at a metallic mystery, one atom at a time

September 28, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gray and white flecks skitter erratically on a computer screen. A towering microscope looms over a landscape of electronic and optical equipment. Inside the microscope, high-energy, accelerated ions bombard a flake of platinum thinner than a hair on a mosquito’s back. Meanwhile, a team of scientists studies...
Two men stand near a desk with computer monitors and a towering microscope that reaches the ceiling

Sandia radiation expert to lead national health physics organization

February 24, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Charles Potter, a certified health physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, was elected president of the American Academy of Health Physics, an organization that supports certified health physicists and the profession’s certification process. Potter previously served as the organization’s parliamentarian for three years, and as president, he plans...
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Gus Potter

Award-winning engineer helps keep US nuclear deterrent safe from radiation

December 23, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When nuclear radiation hits electronics, it cuts through semiconductors, leaving scars of charged particles that can flip computing bits and corrupt memory circuits, potentially disabling devices or causing erratic errors. Experts like engineer Alan Mar ensure components made for the U.S. nuclear stockpile pass stringent standards to...
Alan Mar

Health Physics Society names Sandia Labs radiation expert a fellow

September 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An internationally recognized expert on the measurement and impact assessment of radiation doses to humans has been named a fellow of the Health Physics Society. Charles Potter of Sandia National Laboratories, a certified health physicist since 1997, was honored recently at the 61st Annual Meeting of the...
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Gus Potter

MINER shines in urban emergency response exercise

October 30, 2014 • Mobile imager of fast neutrons spots radiation source at a distance and through shielding[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories' Mark Gerling, left, and John Goldsmith demonstrated the effectiveness of the mobile imager of neutrons for em…

DOE Early Career award won by Sandia researcher Stephanie Hansen

June 9, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has been won by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stephanie Hansen for her fundamental science proposal to improve existing atomic-scale models for high-energy-density matter. Thirty-five winners were chosen by peer...
Stephanie Hansen