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Los Alamos NewsLetter to be distributed this week

The biweekly hard-copy of the Los Alamos NewsLetter for the week of Aug. 16 is scheduled to be in mailboxes and newsstands this week.

Nearly five billion years ago, the giant gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn formed, apparently in radically different ways. On Page 1, read about a Laboratory scientist who created exhaustive computer models based on experiments in which the element hydrogen was shocked to pressures nearly as great as those found inside the two planets.

University of California President Robert Dynes and UC Board of Regents Chairman Gerald Parsky visited the Laboratory and addressed all employees at a mandatory meeting. Both Dynes and Parsky addressed the audience in a "frank and open conversation," imploring Lab employees to work on restoring the "nation's confidence in the institution." Read about their talk on Page 2.

The Laboratory recently changed its policy on how it deals with "Officially Sanctioned Laboratory Groups" and is in the process of changing the policy on University of California retirees returning to work at the Laboratory. On Page 3, readers will find information from an all-employee memo from Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos concerning Laboratory-sanctioned organizations and a Director's Instruction on the rehire of retirees. Also on Page 3, read about the newly created Materials Science and Engineering Council.

A letter from UC President Dynes to employees at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories, and stories on a new training initiative to aide Laboratory employees in the resumption of risk-level 2 and 3 activities and special training for KSL Services craft workers can be found on pages 4 and 5. Page 5 also contains a story on how scientists working at the Laboratory and at UC, Los Angeles have demonstrated the ability to detect the spin of a single electron in a standard silicon transistor.

Newsmakers, July service anniversaries and more can be found on Pages 6 and 7, and the spotlight on Page 8 features Randy Burditt of Design Engineering and Construction Services (FWO-DECS) who coaches the Los Alamos High School Hilltoppers girls softball team.

Employees can access the Los Alamos NewsLetter at http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/lanl_archive.shtml online or obtain additional copies at the bright blue distribution boxes throughout the Lab. Organizations receiving too many or not enough should call the mailroom at 7-4166. If your organization's administrator is not putting the newsletter in your mailboxes, please encourage him or her to do so.

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