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Kids Day returns to Sandia post pandemic with record attendance
May 4, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nearly 2,000 kids filled Sandia National Laboratories’ Albuquerque site, and another 200 filled the Livermore, California site, to see the cool things their parents and relatives do as part of Kids Day, the highest attendance ever recorded. It’s the first time Sandia has opened its gates like...
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Sandia cooks material-storage containers to assess fire safety
November 16, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A team at Sandia National Laboratories has completed a series of tests on specially designed stainless-steel containers used by the Department of Energy for storage and transportation of hazardous materials.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"]…
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Still from video from a container test

Sandia dial-a-fire test complex ignites huge blaze
April 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Though researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories Thermal Test Complex study a variety of fires, they focus on those that rotate rather than burn in place. Whirls generate much higher heat fluxes than non-rotational fires.Massive flames billow from…
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