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2007
November/December 2007
Bodman Tours Pantex Plant In this issue:
  • Nuclear Weapons Dismantlements Up 146 Percent
  • NNSA Completes Security Upgrades At 25 Russian Nuclear Warhead Sites
  • NNSA Acts In Emergency Response Exercise
  • NNSA's Defense Programs Is Getting The Job Done
  • Successful 'Shots' Signal Re-opening Sandia's Giant Z Accelerator
  • Eight NNSA Employees Receive the Presidential Rank Award
  • LLNL Safeguards Nuclear Materials Using Antineutrinos
  • New Super Vault Type Room Open For Business
  • NNSA Moving Forward On Foreign Travel Improvements
October 2007
New Oak Ridge Facility: Mary Baird, a security police officer at the Y-12 National Security Complex, poses with a Dillon Aero Gatling Gun. In this issue:
  • Nine Metric Tons Of Plutonium To Be Removed From U.S. Defense Stocks
  • NNSA Seeks Input On Contracting Strategies For Weapons Complex
  • New Indoor Firing Range Expands Security Training Capabilities
  • Safety Highlights NNSA’s Russian Reactor Replacement Efforts
  • NNSA Employees Honored For Public Service
  • All U.S.-Origin Highly Enriched Uranium Fuel Removed from the Republic of Korea
  • Vietnam and U.S. Work Together to Promote Nonproliferation Efforts
  • NNSA Facilities Receive 14 R&D 100 Awards
September 2007
DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman swears in Thomas P. D'Agostino as Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator of NNSA as wife Beth looks on. In this issue:
  • NNSA Increases Security In A Post-9/11 World
  • Thomas P. D'Agostino Sworn In As NNSA Administrator
  • LAN Researcher Awarded Bronze Star For Service In Iraq
  • Reliable Replacement Warhead Supports Future National Security Needs
  • Y-12 Training Facility To Demonstrate Hands-on Nuclear And Radiological Training Capabilities
  • NNSA Collaborates with Minority-Serving Institutions
  • NNSA Scientists Receive Trailblazers Awards
  • NNSA Opens Center to Promote Security Awareness
August 2007
Pantex's Robotics Winners in LEGO League Competition In this issue:
  • Iraq Vets Join The Ranks of Livermore Employees
  • Nevada Test Site Reestablishes Nuclear Material Safety Testing Capability
  • Pantexan Coaches Youngsters to Top 10 World Finish in Robotics at LEGO League Competition
  • MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility Construction Begins at Savannah River
  • New Program Will Help Evaluate Nuclear Threat
  • Sandia Labs Assists 293 Small Businesses in 2006
  • NNSA Awards Contract for Reliable Fuel Supply Program
  • Sandia Labs, Site Office, Get Highest Safeguards and Security Rating
  • Los Alamos Site Office Revitalization Manager Named
July 2007
A technician prepares the solutions for analysis of chemical composition. In this issue:
  • NNSA Completes Successful Nonproliferation Partnership
  • U.S. Nuclear Strategy Delivered To Congress
  • YTIP Improving Y-12's Response Time, Efficiency
  • Diamond-Stamped:  Los Alamos Completes First War-Reserve Pit
  • Sandia's Weapons Evaluation Test Lab at Pantex Gets Green Building Certification
  • DARHT Conducts Fully Contained Hydrotest
  • NNSA Supercomputer Tops List of 500 Fastest Machines for Record Sixth Straight Time
  • Small Thermos Experiments at Nevada Test Site Yield Excellent Data on Stockpile
June 2007
Handful of radioactive sealed sources recovered by NNSA's global threat reduction program. In this issue:
  • Nuclear Weapons Dismantlements Increase by 50 Percent
  • Russian Border Crossings Will be Secured
  • Y-12 Continues Consolidation Efforts
  • NNSA Recovers More Than 15,000 Radioactive Sources in U.S.
  • NNSA Improves Technology for Radiation Detection
  • PNNL, U. of Washington Help NNSA Achieve China Export Control 
  • Sandia Develops Power-free Device For Weapon Gas Sampling At Pantex Plant
  • Nevada Site Office Aviation Program Garners Multiple Awards
  • First Year of LANS Management at LANL was 'Challenging and Successful'
May 2007
Ostendorff Takes Oath In this issue:
  • Independent RRW Study Supports NNSA Strategy
  • Ostendorff Sworn In as NNSA's Principal Deputy Administrator
  • Bechtel, UC, BWXT, WGI Bid Wins Livermore Contract
  • NNSA Announces Small Business Contracts for Global Threat Reduction Initiative 
  • Pacific Northwest National Lab: A Heritage of Nonproliferation Support
  • OST Places Second in 2007 World SWAT Challenge
  • Los Alamos National Lab W76 Team Receives Defense Programs Award
  • Rapid Fire Pulse Brings Sandia Z Method Closer to Goal of High-Yield Fusion Reactor
  • NNSA Supercomputing Plays Stellar Role in Simulation
  • In Memoriam: Michael Rutkowski
April 2007
The reentry vehicle for the W56 LDU is shown in the photo, signed by Y-12 and NNSA employees. In this issue:
  • Teamwork Pays Dividends for Y-12 Dismantlement
  • NNSA Launches Unique Diagnostic Facility
  • NNSA Announces Key Nuclear Non-proliferation Projects With Vietnam
  • Kansas City Plant Implements New Oversight Plan
  • FY 2008 Budget Request: Reducing Global Danger, Planning The Future Weapons Complex
  • Infrastructure Funding Reaping Results At LANL, Pantex
  • NNSA Satellite Launched on Atlas-5 Rocket
  • Sandia Site Office Commemorates a Former Colleague
  • Los Alamos Joins VolunteerMatch Network
March 2007
Experimental physicist Bernie Kozioziemski of NNSA’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory prepares a cryogenic refrigeration system used to study the deuterium-tritium fuel layer formed inside the National Ignition Facility target capsule. In this issue:
  • Pay Banding Demo to be Piloted for NNSA Personnel
  • NIF Achieves Major Milestones
  • Los Alamos Power Grid Upgrade Near Completion
  • Kansas City Plant Receives Defense Programs Award
  • Design Selected For Reliable Replacement Warhead
  • New Y-12 Tack Cloth Cleans Contaminated Surfaces
  • U.S. And Panama To Combat Nuclear Smuggling
  • LANL Staff Named AAAS Fellows; Nine Honored as APS Fellows
  • Two Los Alamos Scientists Win E.O. Lawrence Award
  • NNSA Selects Federal Safety Professionals of the Year
February 2007
The Y-12 National Security Complex is considered a In this issue:
  • NNSA to Upgrade Last Russian Nuclear Warhead Site
  • Special Nuclear Material Reduction Underway at Lawrence Livermore
  • Sandia Studies Anti-terror Technologies
  • Future Y-12 National Security Complex Takes Shape With Modernization Projects
  • Weapons Complex Employees Donate More Than $11M to Fund Drives Throughout The Nation
  • Livermore Scientists Receive Gordon Bell Prizes
  • NNSA Tops List of Fastest Computers in the World
  • 44 Years of Public Service for SSO Staffer
January 2007
THE JASPER TEAM: Standing next to the two-stage gas gun, this Nevada Test Site (NTS) team has worked together to fire more than 60 shots. In this issue:
  • Nuclear Weapons Officials Agree to Pursue RRW Strategy
  • Almost 600 Pounds of HEU Returned to Russia
  • Remembering John Arthur
  • The Nevada Test Site: A Unique Resource To Meet Customer Needs
  • Tritium Production Resumes At Savannah River After 18 Years
  • Radiation Equipment Up and Running in Slovenia
  • DARHT Axis 2 Has Two Successful Test Firings
  • Nevada Site Manager Named
  • Livermore's James R. Wilson Wins 2006 Hans Bethe Award
  • National Weather Service Says Pantex Plant is Storm Ready
  • Discover Magazine Recognizes Sandia Physicist Mark Boslough
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