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During a ceremony banquet at the American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics’ annual meeting last week, Dr. Michael Rosenberg was presented with the 2016 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.
Rosenberg is a research associate at the University of Rochester...
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LIVERMORE, Calif.—On September 18, 2016, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) performed its 400th experiment of fiscal year (FY) 2016, meeting the year's goal several weeks early. In comparison, the facility completed 356 experiments in FY 2015 and 191 experiments in FY 2014. NIF is on...
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Former Army Ranger Damon Alcorn recently received the Sandia National Laboratories-Livermore Chamber of Commerce Student of the Year Award. Presented at the Chamber’s State of the City Luncheon last month, the annual award highlights a Las Positas College student with exemplary academic...
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NNSA’s labs change the world everyday through cutting-edge developments in support of NNSA’s critical national security missions. Some of those leading edge technologies went on display as scientists and representatives from DOE, including “makers” from NNSA’s labs,...
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Yesterday Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz hosted a special ceremony honoring DOE’s 13 recipients of the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), among which were three researchers nominated by NNSA. PECASE recipients are selected for the award by the White...
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The National Ignition Facility’s (NIF) performed the first programmatic experiments with Advanced Radiographic Capability (ARC) on December 1-3, 2015. ARC, a petawatt-class laser with peak power that will exceed a quadrillion watts, is designed to produce brighter, more penetrating, higher-energy...
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WASHIGTON, DC. – The National Nuclear Security Administration today released its current quarterly summary of experiments conducted as part of its science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program. The experiments carried out within the program are used in combination with complex computational models...
