9 overlapping ChemCam RMI images acquired during sol 4687 assembled into a mosaic using MS-ICE. Curiosity rover acquired additional images, but they have yet to be downlinked from the rover in the correct format on the public server. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/IRAP
#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #JPL #LANL #IRAP
“Los Alamos residents protest nuclear waste storage, including venting of radioactive gasses”
"The New Mexico Environment Department stated that venting the gas is the safest option for some of the waste due to the pressurized state of the containers, which poses a risk of explosion if moved.”
https://www.koat.com/article/los-alamos-residents-protest-radioactive-gas-venting-plan/66052590
"weekly reports did not reveal what happened as a result of DOE not following procedures, signing off on tasks that were not completed or performed. Yet, #LANL claims: "The main objective of radioactive waste management is to protect workers, the public &..." nuclearactive.org/alarming-pro... #law
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yw6wbtma6fynxiafh5v7j5sf/post/3lwtmjuhsic2p
Alarming Problems with Propose...
Can one programming language be used to program multicore processors, GPU-packed supercomputers, and everything in between? Chapel can! Engin Kayraklioglu will give a public talk about Chapel's portability at Los Alamos National Laboratory on June 18th at 10AM PT!
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Snowmass 2021 cross frontier report: Dark matter complementarity
Antonio Boveia et al.
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 7 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.7
#OSU #LundUniversity #CU #Fermilab #UC #UK #UCSC #LANL #MIT #UCSB #SLAC #UNH #WashingtonUniversity #DESY #UIUC #GSFC #UCR #UTA #UO
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Tighter lower bounds on quantum annealing times
Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Mrunmay Sahasrabudhe, Christian Arenz
SciPost Phys. 18, 159 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.5.159
Countdown by Sara Scoles
“I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum”
– Richard #Feynman
“Now we are all sons of bitches”
– Kenneth Bainbridge
Wellerstein Restricted Data NukeMap
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
#infasound – Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, Thule Greenland
STP-sat-6 (2021), JASON (thinktank),
Hugh Gusterson Nuclear Rites pg. 111 “totemic secrecy”
Martin Pfeiffer
Northwest Nuclear Lab
https://www.nwnlabs.org/
tokamak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
pg. 50 Everettian Split (multiverse)
pg. 59 #DOE #Quantum QSCOUT, 97 Ignition, 116 ‘Q’ Clearance (nuclear), pg. 130 #Honeywell National Technological and Engineering Solutions of Sandia,
Lawrence Livermore Warmspot detector
NARAC Cobalt Magnet
https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/fall-2024/research-skills-are-life-skills
Los Alamos 1663 magazine article on the work my students are doing
#losalamos #research #students #nuclearnonproliferation #lanl
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Kernel polynomial method for linear spin wave theory
Harry Lane, Hao Zhang, David Dahlbom, Sam Quinn, Rolando D. Somma, Martin Mourigal, Cristian D. Batista, Kipton Barros
SciPost Phys. 17, 145 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.5.145
#StAndrewsUniversity #LANL #ORNL #GT #QuantumAI #UTK
#RoyalCommission1851
#Tewa Women United: #Pueblo Infants Endangered by #LANL 's #Radiation Plan
#NativeLedNonprofit #TewaWomenUnited Commissioned Two Reports to Study Impacts. Finding: #LosAlamos National Laboratory Omitted Dose Calculations to Infants and Children in Their Compliance Application
By Tewa Women United, #CensoredNews, November 19, 2024
#EspanolaNewMexico — "The Native-led nonprofit organization Tewa Women United, based in Española, New Mexico, has released two independent scientific technical reports assessing the implications and adherence to regulations concerning Los Alamos National Laboratory’s proposal to release tritium into the open atmosphere from four Flanged #Tritium Waste Containers located in Area G, near #WhiteRockNewMexico.
"These reports found that the concentration of tritium in the most loaded radioactive container, if vented during unfavorable weather conditions, could lead to radiation doses significantly exceeding the annual regulatory limit of 10 millirem established by the Environmental Protection Agency regulatory radiation standards.
"The author of one report, Bernd Franke, stated, 'In the case of tritium, infants and small children get a radiation dose about three times greater than adults, with the same concentrations of tritium in air, water, and food.'
"However, LANL’s application for venting did not include potential impacts of the #TritiumVenting on infants or children; in effect, LANL did not consider them as 'members of the public.' So far during the permitting process, the #EPA has allowed LANL to ignore these #VulnerablePopulations in their proposal.
"Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, member of #SanIldefonsoPueblo and one of Tewa Women United’s co- founders, said, 'Tritium makes water, our sacred source of life, radioactive. We were shocked to learn that LANL’s compliance calculations did not take infants and other children into account.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/tewa-women-united-pueblo-infants.html
#WaterIsLife #RadioactiveContamination #Genocide #NativeAmericans #ProtectTheSacred
#ReaderSupportedNews #PuebloTribes #NoNukes #TritiumContamination
"In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion — has to be performed in accordance with the nation’s strongest environmental law"
https://searchlightnm.org/federal-judge-ruling-plutonium-pits-environmental-impact/
"A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos:
After three cleanups, independent analysis shows 80-year-old plutonium persists in Acid Canyon and beyond"
Captured today, by Curiosity's ChemCam
#Mars Oct. 8, 2024 (Sol 4327)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL
#Curiosity #rover #Sol4327 #CuriosityRover #ChemCam #Chemistry #camera #NASA #JPL #LANL #space #MSL #solarocks #geology #astrogeology #science #STEM #astrodon
"Plutonium Sampling at the Los Alamos Lab Demonstrating Contaminant Migration to the
Rio Grande and Groundwater"
https://nukewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PUmap-front-final-FINAL-5-20-copy.pdf
"Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to #Chornobyl, study finds.
Much of the land near the atomic bomb’s birthplace was converted to recreational areas, but toxic waste remains"
Will Damron's read of the audiobook of Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" is excellent.
While the book is required reading or listening as a historical record for anyone interested in Information Security, it's a thoroughly enjoyable thriller. Though much of the technology mentioned is familiar to folks who are thinking I'm about to call them old, it's unsurprising how much remains painfully pertinent today, yet pleasing how a few things have improved significantly given only a few decades.
While some library networks such as the DoD MWR will keep you waiting months for one of their few copies, Fairfax County has unlimited copies of the audiobook.
I hope @AndresFreundTec is keeping good notes on his adventures with xz/liblzma.
#CliffStoll #WillDamron #TheCuckoosEgg #CuckoosEgg #Book #Audiobook #unix #Emacs #Kermit #SysV #BSD #Berkeley #VMS #DEC #Vax #IBM #Bellcore #FBI #CIA #NSA #DoE #LBL #LLNL #LANL #DoD #CERN #MITRE #SRA #Tymnet #MorrisWorm #InfoSec #Astronomy #Astrology #Accounting #SDInet
As I am migrating some data from my #cheesegrater Mac I am rediscovering some old pictures. Here is my old blue & clear/white #G3 #macintosh for #marchintosh #marchintosh2024
IIRC, these are the #craigslist post pictures to sell this when I was packing up to leave #LANL (hence the boxes in the background). This went to a intern at the lab at the time; I hope they were able to give it a good home.
Broken, but still standing
Ingenuity the little martian helicopter, captured by Perseverance's SuperCam today, Feb. 25
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP
#ingenuity #mars #perseverance #rover #supercam #ValinorHills #nasa #jpl #caltech #lanl #cnes #irap #space #flight #history #astronomy #astrodon #science #engineering #STEM #photography #spacephotography
TONIGHT! The Westport Astronomical Society Free Online Science Lecture Series Presents Dr. Catherine S. Plesko –Planetary Defense: Using Supercomputers to Prevent Asteroid Impacts on Earth - December 19th, 8:00 pm - https://mailchi.mp/was-ct/catherine_plesko_2023-tonight
#WestportObservatory #Lecture #LANL #NASA #Asteroid #PlanetaryDefense
More victims of the "Cold" War:
"Toxic contamination: legacy of the nuclear arms race leaves staggering cleanup costs at home"
#ColdWar #nuclear #NuclearWeapons #NuclearPower #Hanford #LANL #NTS #ORNL
