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Community Conversation [Slides]

Our employees are the reason we kept up so much vital work during the pandemic. LANL is responsible for important R&D work for the nation and our scope is growing. COVID has taught us there are many ways to leverage technology to work effectively. Our researchers are making important contributions to nuclear security, climate change, environmental remediation, and fuel cell technology. LANL played a key leadership role in the pandemic by identifying mutations, predicting spread, and providing decision support. LANL has exciting news and changes on the horizon.

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Sights of summer from Lab’s earliest days digitization preserves images from 1940s, features early staff enjoying Los Alamos

Working at the Lab during World War II was serious business, but even these world-changing scientists and staff found time to play during the summer months. The National Security Research Center (NSRC), which is the Lab’s classified library and also houses unclassified artifacts from Los Alamos history, recently rescanned candid footage from two of contributors to the Manhattan Project.

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LLNL Buildings Shapefile

This is a shapefile for LLNL building and construction footprints for Sites 200 and 300.

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Commuting again to work on-site? Lab’s first drivers faced their own challenges decades ago

After a long pause in commuting, more and more Lab staff are filling travel mugs, topping off their tanks, and heading up the hill for on-site work. As long as the Lab has existed, workers have snaked through tight mountain roads to get to their jobs. And, back in the early 1940s, drivers faced even more challenges. In the Lab’s earliest years, drivers likely worried about getting stuck in the mud, navigating intense switchbacks, or making sure important equipment, such as a disassembled power plant, didn’t fall off the back of the truck that was hauling it. Creative solutions could go a long way to get out of a jam. As many of us return onsite and get reacquainted with commuting, we look back at how transportation has changed since the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government’s top secret effort at Los Alamos to create the first atomic bombs to help end World War II. These stories and photos are part of the collections in the National Security Research Center, which is the Lab’s classified library and also houses unclassified artifacts from our past.

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Laser Network US Experiments at the University of Texas at Austin

Under Subcontract B638654, The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) Center for High Energy Density Science supported three Laser Network US experiments and conducted upgrade planning for the Texas Petawatt Laser Facility. For the experiment “Investigation of the physics of MeV X-ray and particle generation using Compound Parabolic Concentrators” led by Dr. Andrew Mackinnon of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UT Austin provided postdoctoral associate support in the person of Dr. Ganesh Tiwari. For the experiments “Megatesla magnetic fields and enhanced gamma-ray beam generation” led by Hans Rinderknecht of LLE, University of Rochester (experiment) and Alexey Arefiev of UC San Diego (theory) and “High resolution imaging of resonately accelerated electrons under tight focusing” led by Deepak Kumar of ELI-Beamlines, Czech Republic, UT Austin provided the Texas Petawatt Laser staff and a prorated share of the materials and supplies approximately equal to the average of those required for one 5-week experimental campaign. Summaries of these three experiments are provided in this report. Two staff members were hired—Dr. Sandra Bruce at 40% and Dr. Erhard Gaul at 50% time—to support Texas Petawatt Laser maintenance and operations and to plan for the Texas Relativistic Intensity Ultrafast Multi-beam Plasma Facility (TRIUMPF).

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National Criticality Experiments Research Center, NCERC NEWS (Apr. - Jun. 2021) [Slides]

National Center for Nuclear Security (NCNS) samples were irradiated on Godiva. Fission chamber testing for NCNS was conducted on Flat-Top. This operation involved multiple core configuration changes, which doubled as important training opportunities for NEN-2 Crew Member Trainees. These experiments support nuclear forensics research.

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Classified Matter Protection and Control Overview Course 16028

This course will assist personnel in preventing the compromise of classified matter by presenting requirements for classifying, marking, reproducing, destroying, inventorying, and transmitting classified matter.

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NM Science, Technology and Telecommunications committee: State of the Lab [Slides]

Our priority throughout COVID has been protecting our employees and our communities. To this end, we stood up internal testing and vaccination programs; kept disease risk low via maximum teleworking; leveraged world-class expertise to support federal and state through disease modeling and forecasting; and stored vaccines for the school district. COVID-19 taught us there are many ways to leverage technology to work safely and effectively.

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Classified Matter Protection and Control User Refresher Training Course 35043

Welcome to the Classified Matter Protection and Control Refresher Training for users of classified matter. The purpose of this refresher training is to familiarize workers with responsibilities of protecting and controlling classified matter. This biannual training must be completed by all workers whose job duties include generating, processing, accessing, handling, using, storing, reproducing, destroying, transmitting or accounting for classified matter.

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College-bound cowboys: The Los Alamos Ranch School Before the wartime lab, Los Alamos was home to a boarding school

Summer’s over and the school year’s soon to start. What’s a kid to do? Go West, young man! Escape the city that is “making you soft” and learn self-reliance from the western U.S. of A. – or so advertised the ranch school movement in America from roughly 1900-1960. This educational movement included Los Alamos. Before being developed into a wartime lab to create atomic weapons, the mesa was home to one of the most prominent and pricey ranch schools in America.

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The Vault National Security Then & Now (2021 Annual)

Looking back, I can say with certainty that we rose to the challenge. Like other entities all around the globe, the National Security Research Center was tested by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a young organization (we celebrated our second anniversary in June 2021) and one that is critical to Los Alamos National Laboratory’s national security charge, we faced the difficult task of continuing our mission-essential work while keeping our staff safe. The NSRC is one of the largest libraries in the United States, and it houses the country’s most-comprehensive collections of nuclear weapons-related national security material. The NSRC contains millions of documents, films, photos, and other materials on the development, testing, and production of nuclear weapons. These are accessed on a daily basis by scientists, engineers, and researchers at Los Alamos and other National Nuclear Security Administration’s labs and sites, as well as partners in the Department of Defense. It was not an option for us to close our doors - our nation’s security depended on us not to. Not only did we continue operating under new safety protocols, we successfully accomplished many pre-pandemic goals. Thanks to the NSRC’s dedicated staff, our accomplishments during our second year are too numerous to list, though two in particular come to mind.

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Fission to Fusion: An Island Goes Missing

Hollywood actor Reed Hadley walked the decks of the USS Estes with the practiced ease characteristic of his profession. Stopping periodically to relight his pipe, Hadley narrated an AEC film depicting the final hours and minutes leading up to the detonation of Mike, the world’s first thermonuclear bomb. Hadley’s smooth camera presence contrasted sharply with those of the scientists and technicians he interviewed, particularly Alvin Graves, who came across wooden and condescending. Just after Hadley put on his dark goggles to prevent flash blindness, Mike exploded with a force of 10.4 megatons, completely vaporizing the entire ground zero island of Elugelab. The film made one thing clear – Los Alamos scientists could build a thermonuclear bomb, but they could not act.

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The Importance of Ontologies to LANL’s Future Search Capabilities [Slides]

Digitizing physical archives is designed to make documents more accessible. An ontology in this context is a network of discrete concepts (things, people, places, etc.) and, importantly, the relationships that connect them. This will help both the recall and the precision of the search: being able to link to concepts I didn’t type directly into the search box will get more results from a search, while knowing how the concepts are related to each other will make it easier to filter out the stuff that isn’t actually useful. Ontologies make a database more flexible and easier for a user to actually navigate.

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DOE National Laboratories: Vital to U.S. science and technology [Slides]

DOE has extremely challenging and diverse missions, each born out of national need. The national labs serve as the science and technology engine for DOE missions. Each Lab stewards distinctive capabilities which DOE leverages through networks of labs address core missions, dynamic programs and rapid response needs. National lab networks have transformative impact.

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RCT Continuing Training (Q3, 2021) [Slides]

Radiological Control Technicians (RCTs) serve an important part in the mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory by monitoring the diverse radiological conditions at the Lab. The role of RCTs is critical in maintaining personnel safety from radiological hazards and in keeping occupational radiation exposure As low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA). This training content consists of two parts: viewing an online lecture and completing the associated exercise guide. The online lecture, presented here, will review performing job coverage and all of the necessary steps associated with it.

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RCT Continuing Training Presentation Transcript (Q3, 2021)

Radiological Control Technicians (RCTs) serve an important part in the mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory by monitoring the diverse radiological conditions at the Lab. This role is critical in maintaining personnel safety from radiological hazards, and in keeping occupational radiation exposure As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA). This training presentation will review performing job coverage and all of the necessary steps associated with it.

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