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Laboratory directors brief Vice President Biden

12/17/09 - Laboratory Director Mike Anastasio had the honor yesterday afternoon of joining fellow lab directors from Lawrence Livermore and Sandia for an in-person briefing of Vice President Joe Biden in the White House.

2009 performance review gives LANS, LLC 90% of available award fee and another year to contract term: By comparison, the award fee for FY08 was 88% and 81% for FY07

12/15/09 - The National Nuclear Security Administration has evaluated the Laboratory's performance for fiscal year 2009 and awarded LANS, LLC 90 percent of the available award fee and added another year to the term of the LANS contract to manage and operate Los Alamos National Laboratory. That extension stretches the contract term through September 30, 2015. By comparison, the award fee for FY08 was 88 percent and 81 percent for FY07.

Cerrillos and Roadrunner rank in the top10 of world's most energy-efficient supercomputers: Majority of top 25 systems based on NNSA, DOE technology

12/02/09 - NNSA Administrator Thomas D’Agostino congratulated the Advanced Simulation and Computing program for two supercomputers ranked in the TOP Green500’s top 10 most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world as of November 2009. The two computers in the top 10 are housed at LANL: Cerrillos (#4) and Roadrunner (#9). Six other supercomputers housed at NNSA sites were also ranked in the TOP Green500 list.

LANL scientists have the edge on wind energy: Ammerman, Hemez discuss cutting-edge project in radio interview

12/01/09 - Today Americans get about 1% of the electricity they consume from wind but by 2030, DOE wants to see 20% of the nation's electricity generated by wind, Lab scientist Curtt Ammerman told a KRSN audience yesterday morning. Along with François Hemez of Verification, he talked about their Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD)-funded project, “Intelligent Next-Generation Wind Turbines,” on the AM radio morning show. Not only will these new turbines perform better, Ammerman explained, they'll also be more reliable and less costly to operate and maintain.

"The Los Alamos skyline is starting to change." Walls come down sooner, thanks to Recovery Act funding

12/01/09 - LANL Tuesday began full-scale demolition at TA-21, the Cold War-era complex of buildings that once housed plutonium production and historic, nonweapons research. “We’re seeing something this morning that has not happened since the late 1940s,” said Isaac “Ike” Richardson, the Lab’s deputy director. “The Los Alamos skyline is starting to change.”

Lab has turned a corner on information-security issues

11/10/09 - NNSA wants to partner to support the Lab's mission: auditors from Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) in DOE's Office of Independent Oversight arrived in August of 2009 to review the Lab's information security and quickly determined that the Lab had made substantial improvements.

Science news: perchlorate groundwater studies, energy projects, Handbook of Modern Ion Beam Analysis—New studies, money fuel science programs

11/4/09 - Chlorine isotopic signature distinguishes natural and anthropogenic perchlorate in groundwater; New energy projects support the Lab’s Energy Security Capability; Publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Modern Ion Beam Analysis by the Materials Research Society continues to bring worldwide recognition to LANL work in ion beam analysis and ion-solid interactions.

LANL: the Plutonium Center of Excellence for the DOE complex—its mission is the responsibility to lead science, engineering and technology development across a broad range of plutonium-centric programs

10/5/09 - As part of these efforts, Charlie McMillan, Principal Associate Director for Weapons Programs (PADWP), and Terry Wallace, Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology and Engineering (PADSTE), have chartered the development of an institutional plutonium science strategy. The strategy will provide a road map for plutonium research and development efforts across the Lab's three mission pillars: Nuclear Deterrence, Global Threat Reduction, and Energy Security.