Laboratory flips the mercury 'off' switch
Mercury, that silvery liquid metal ubiquitous in switches, pressure gauges and thermometers, is an environmental bad-boy and toxic to humans through inhalation, skin contact and ingestion.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003Laboratory flips the mercury 'off' switchMercury, that silvery liquid metal ubiquitous in switches, pressure gauges and thermometers, is an environmental bad-boy and toxic to humans through inhalation, skin contact and ingestion.
Thinning crews are working in Pajarito Acres area
Forest-thinning work associated with the Laboratory’s Cerro Grande Rehabilitation Project begins this week in the White Rock area south of the Pajarito Acres subdivision and east of N.M. 4.
Documentation requirements for unclassified foreign visits and assignments
General Security LIR (406-00-01) Attachment 5 "Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments" contains requirements that must be implemented when an uncleared national conducts work at or visits the Laboratory.
Catch a gravitational wave at Director's Colloquium Thursday
How energy warps space-time and causes distortion of gravitational waves is the subject of a Director's Colloquium at 1:10 p.m., Thursday, in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3.
UC Regents approve additional retirement funds
The University of California Board of Regents approved additional retirement funds for eligible UC employees by way of a special retirement account. supercomputing
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A passion for what people can doMaking a computer that runs at 1 thousand trillion operations per secondThe success of Roadrunner supercomputer is due to a large team of incredibly talented individuals focused on a common goal. . . Currents, the Laboratory's monthly employee magazine, is now available online.  |
Roadrunner, a new hybrid computer moves at petaflop/s speed
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