Sandia

Results 126–130 of 130

Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel

January 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Research by a team of Sandia chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste. The Sandia researchers have used metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to capture and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel. “This is one of the first attempts to...

Categories: Chemistry, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemistry, materirals science, nuclear, research, Sandia

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

Topics: museum, National Nuclear Science Week, nuclear, Sandia

Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing

January 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing — and that’s the idea behind a power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories.It’s common to isolate communications between systems or d…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: energy, national laboratories, power, Sandia, technology

Sandia researchers, UK partners publish groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates in Science magazine

January 13, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In a breakthrough paper (full text/PDF) published in this week’s issue of Science magazine, researchers from Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester and Bristol University report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-…

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemistry, energy, national laboratories, research, Sandia

Sandia cyber project looks to help IT professionals with complex Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerabilities

January 11, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global IT community better understand Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) a…

Categories: Computing

Topics: computer, cyber security, DNS, DNSSEC, Domain Name System, internet, national labs, network, research, Sandia

Results 126–130 of 130