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2005
December 2005
Ambassador Brooks participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Chairman of the China Atomic Energy Authority, Sun Qin at the opening session of the U.S.-China Integrated Nuclear Material Management Technology demonstration in Beijing. In this issue:
  • Sensitive Nuclear Material Removed from Los Alamos TA-18 Facility
  • U.S. and China Jointly Host Technology Demo on Nuclear Material, Security and International Safeguards
  • Ambassador Brooks Presents NNSA Weapons Excellence Awards at LLNL
  • NNSA Completes Czech Research Reactor Conversion
  • ASC Program Marks Its Ten-Year Anniversary by Unveiling the World's Fastest Supercomputer Combination
  • Largest Computational Biology Simulation Mimics Life's Most Essential Nanomachine
  • Sandia Utilizes Parallel and Cluster Computers
  • Staffer Added to NNSA Congressional Affairs
  • Y-12 Volunteers Help Out with Community Projects
  • NNSA Awards HBCU Grants
  • Pantex Expands High Explosives Facility
October/November 2005
Busloads of Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina enter Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. In this issue:
  • NNSA Recovers Unique Radiological Devices
  • HEU Recovered from Czech Technical University
  • Curtis R. Stevens Named NNSA Executive Staff Director
  • 'Every Day Hero' Is Campaign Theme For CFC
  • NNSA Facilities Mobilize People, Technology For Gulf Coast Hurricane Response
  • Television Images Compelled Albuquerque Volunteer to go to New Orleans
  • Los Alamos Joint Dispatch Center is Operational
  • Kansas City Plant Senior Leaders Take Up Tools for Habitat for Humanity 
  • Disposition Program Reaches Another Milestone
  • GO FIGURE! Mines Exceptional Talent
September 2005
Principal Deputy Administrator Jerry Paul (right) gets a briefing on the new automated security weapons system installed at the Y-12 National Security Complex to protect special nuclear materials. In this issue:
  • NNSA Implements New Security Measures Recommended by Mies
  • First Irradiated Tritium Rods Arrive at SRS
  • Disintegrating Asteroid Dust Monitored for First Time
  • SRS Wins Top Award At DOE Security Protection Officer Training Competition
  • Ron Cherry Wins Safeguards Award 
  • NNSA Response Teams Exercise With U.S. Navy
  • U.S. and Libya Sign Sister Laboratory Arrangement 
  • 9/11 Technologies - NNSA Applies World-Class Scientific Skills
  • Eastern Command Groundbreaking
August 2005
Reactive NanoTechnologies’ NanoFoil is a nanoengineered heat source developed with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University. In this issue:
  • NNSA Expands Nuclear Security Cooperation with Russia
  • Atlas Resumes Experimental Work at Nevada Test Site
  • NNSA Administrator's 2005 Small Business Awards Recognize Excellence and Progress
  • Livermore Lab Develops Armor for Iraq Gun Trucks
  • Future Leaders Class Gets Job Assignments
  • NNSA Labs Each Receive Four R&D 100 Awards
  • Brooks Salutes Trinity Veterans
  • Interns Provide Unique Insight to NNSA
  • U.S. and Philippines to Cooperate on Detecting Illicit Shipments of Nuclear Material
July 2005
Russian Lab Directors Ceremony In this issue:
  • Intern Roles Help Prepare for Future
  • U.S., Russian Lab Directors Meet in Siberia
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Community Leader Day
  • Pantex Installs State-of-the-Art Radio Digital System
  • Sandia’s Z Machine Fires Objects Faster Than The Earth Moves Through Space
  • On the Road or in an Office, OST Delivers 
  • 699 Metric Tons of Mercury Removed From Y-12
  • Desmond Named Security Chief 
  • KCP, Y-12 Develop Emergency Notification Device
June 2005
While news cameras film the mission, Dr. Igor Bolshinsky of NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation secures nuclear materials at a Latvian facility. In this issue:
  • Highly Enriched Uranium Repatriated From Latvia
  • Los Alamos RFP, Y-12 and Pantex Extensions Announced
  • SNL's Julia Phillips Elected American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow 
  • NNSA Security Upgrades Completed at Kurchatov Institute
  • Y-12 Park Volunteers Get National Award
  • NNSA Names David Jonas General Counsel
  • U.S.-Russian Project Enters Space Technology Hall of Fame
  • Lawrence Livermore Lab Researcher Wins Humboldt Award
  • Years of Work and Coordination Result in Successful Shipment of MOX Assemblies to Carolina Power Plant
  • Serf's Up at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • NNSA Security Office Rotates Staff Assignments 
May 2005
Beta, an American kestrel found grounded in an oil drip pan at a Y-12 National Security Complex building in Oak Ridge, Tenn., poses in the gloved hand of building manager Ron Wilson. In this issue:
  • Energy Secretary Bodman Commends Key Milestone In Mixed-Oxide Fuel Program
  • Brooks Discusses Stockpile of the Future at Hearing
  • D'Agostino, Hafner to Act in DP
  • NNSA Service Center Personnel Changes
  • Brooks Discusses Stockpile of the Future at Hearing
  • Y-12 Workers Save, Set Bird Free
  • Pantex Achieves Clean Texas, Cleaner World Partner Status
  • NNSA Authorizes Restart of the Sandia Annular Core Research Reactor after Recent Upgrades
  • Successful Los Alamos Experiment Supports Weapon Maintenance with Hydrodynamic Experiments
  • U.S., Canada Cooperate in Closure of Russian Weapons-Grade Plutonium Production Reactor
  • Y-12 Leads Effort to Reduce Weapons-Usable Nuclear Material Stockpile
  • Successful Upgrade Provides Enhanced Power at LANL Building
  • NNSA Official Addresses Department of Defense Conference
April 2005
Administrator Linton Brooks testifies at a March hearing before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. In this issue:
  • NNSA’s Newest Supercomputer Breaks Record
  • Brooks Discusses Nuclear Terror
  • NNSA Employee Awarded Alumni Honor
  • Congressional Hearings Require Intense Preparation 
  • Pantex Plant Wins Pollution Prevention Awards
  • Sandia Group Studies Defenses Against Terrorism
  • NNSA Authorizes Restart of Important Y-12 Facility
  • LLNL Demonstrates Terrorist Truck-Stopping Technology
  • LANL Scientist Named Asian American Engineer of the Year
  • Everet Beckner Resigns DP Post
  • Former Intern Moving Up in KC
  • Y-12's Williams to Lead Inter-Laboratory Board
March 2005
Lightning flash generated at Florida’s International Center for Lightning Research and Testing In this issue:
  • Nations Gather To Help Nuclear Cities Shut Down Remaining Plutonium Production Reactors
  • New IT Chief Has Wealth of Experience 
  • Livermore Lab Researchers Study Lightning In Florida
  • Kansas City Plant Cuts Costs, Improves Quality of Chemical Baths With New Monitoring System
  • Jerry Paul Appoints Two New Staff Members
  • India Agrees To Partner With Regional Radiological Security Effort of NNSA, IAEA
  • Service Center Staffer Wins Employee of the Year Award from Careers and the Disabled Magazine
  • Sandia Designed System has Ability to Destroy Biological Agents and Chemical Warfare Materials
  • STRATCOM General Visits OST's Western Command at Sandia
  • Major Construction Completed at SRS Tritium Extraction Facility
  • Five Los Alamos Physicists Receive Honors
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Completes Phase I of Security and Safeguards Upgrades
February 2005
A photographic camera and display system would have 16 times greater data display capability than this display at Sandia National Laboratories. In this issue:
  • U.S. and U.K. Cooperate on Ridding Russian of Weapons Grade Plutonium
  • Samuel Bodman Becomes New DOE Secretary
  • Y-12 Lends Equipment to South Carolina State's Nuclear Engineering Program
  • Dan Glenn Enjoys Leading Pantex Site Office
  • 2004 A Banner Year for the Jasper Gun
  • Pantex Exceeds 2004 FIRP Goals
  • Virtual Reality Lets Engineers Go Inside Designs
  • Sandia, NYU Co-Host First-Ever "Big Picture Summit"
  • Highly Enriched Uranium Repatriated from Czech Republic
  • Conference on Security of Radioactive Sources
  • Livermore, Sandia Team for Math, Science Program
  • DOE Extends Acceptance Policy for Spent Nuclear Fuel
  • Los Alamos Wizardry to Aid New Mars Science Lab
  • LANL Camera Will Probe Edge of Solar System
January 2005
Operator John Sanders tests the control systems at the nearly complete Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF) at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. In this issue:
  • New Contract Will Help Shut Down Russian Reactors
  • James McConnell Named NNSA's New Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety
  • American, British Scientists Discuss Collaboration at “Stocktake 2004”
  • Los Alamos Computers Map Hurricane Impacts
  • Lawrence Livermore Senior Managers Help Build Habitat for Humanity Houses
  • NNSA Marks 100th Shipment of LEU Ahead of Schedule
  • Y-12 Recognizes Staff Members with Technology Transfer Awards
  • NNSA Issues Draft RFP for Los Alamos Contract
  • Lockheed Martin Gets One-Year Sandia Extension
  • Livermore's First Science Facility Remembered
  • Russian Transition Program Brings Visitors to Oak Ridge
  • LLNL Team Participates in Regional Competition
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