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A number of Pantexans volunteered Friday, March 30, to help renovate two Habitat for Humanity homes in Amarillo, Texas. B&W Pantex provided breakfast and lunch for the volunteers, who were encouraged to bring family members to help with the homes. Workers spent most of the day painting the exteriors, and also helped with other small jobs. Pantexans have built or helped with six Habitat homes, working alongside eventual homeowners.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility recently produced magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments. The hundred-tesla level is roughly equivalent to 2 million times Earth's magnetic field.
The team used the 100-tesla pulsed, multi-shot magnet, a combination of seven coils sets weighing nearly 18,000 pounds and powered by a massive 1,200-megajoule motor generator. There are higher magnetic fields produced elsewhere, but the magnets that create such fields blow themselves to bits in the process. The system at Los Alamos is instead designed to work nondestructively, in the intense 100-tesla realm, on a regular basis.
To read more about the work see: http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/magnetic_field_researchers_target_hundred_tesla_goal.html
To see the video go to: http://www.lanl.gov/news/stories/magnet-lab-video.html
The Consul General Of Japan, San Francisco Counsel, Hiroshi Inomata (center) is pictured with members of the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL), Las Vegas, who responded to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Inomata honored the group at a reception recently in Las Vegas. The group was cited for their service to Japan and the people of Japan. Federal and contractor staff from the RSL responded and provided radiological data to support the Japanese as they made crucial health and safety decisions to protect their citizens in the wake of Fukishima Diachi nuclear power plant emergency. Also pictured, far left, is Stephen A. Mellington, Manager Nevada Site Office.
Seoul, South Korea: U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today joined Dr Bernard Bigot, head of French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium, Mrs. Joelle Milquet, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Uri Rosenthal from the Netherlands in announcing their common understanding to help minimize the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in the production of medical isotopes.
(Note: This blog post has been cross-posted from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
Every year 30 million people around the world undergo medical diagnostic procedures that use the radioactive isotope technetium-99 metastable (Tc-99m), which is the most commonly used medical radioisotope. The Tc-99m procedures include tests that can tell doctors how well the heart is functioning, whether cancer is present, and other critical medical information. Of the 30 million Tc-99m procedures conducted worldwide every year, over half are performed in the United States.
Tc-99m is derived from molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). Most of the world's supply of Mo-99 is produced today in nuclear reactors where targets containing highly-enriched uranium (HEU) are irradiated and subsequently processed into pure Mo-99. But HEU is a very dangerous substance and is one of the materials slated to be secured under the President's four-year lock-down agenda. These dangers were central to the work plan of the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit. Luckily, new technology is allowing Mo-99 to be produced without using HEU, andmost of the world is in the process of converting to non-HEU-based technology.
The United States Government is deeply committed to both a reliable supply of the critical medical radioisotope Mo-99 and eliminating the use of HEU in its production. To balance these two goals, high-level officials of Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the United States announced this week during the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul a commitment to a set of activities designed to concurrently minimize the use of HEU and ensure a reliable supply of medical radioisotopes for patients worldwide. The four countries agreed, subject to regulatory approvals, to support conversion of European Mo-99 production facilities to non-HEU-based processes by 2015. The quadrilateral statement can be found at http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/jointquadleu32712, and a fact sheet on the statement is provided at http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/factsheets/heuminimization.
As announced at the Summit, in the interest to ensure uninterrupted production of Mo-99, the United States is prepared to supply the European isotope producers with limited quantities of HEU target material. To minimize HEU in their countries, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands will eliminate HEU scrap material in their ownership that is no longer suitable for Mo-99 production by recycling or disposing of this scrap material with the support of the United States and other countries.
As part of efforts to minimize HEU use in Mo-99 production, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA, a semiautonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy) works with existing, large-scale international producers to assist in the conversion of their Mo-99 production facilities from the use of HEU targets to low enriched uranium (LEU) targets. These efforts are part of the NNSA Global Threat Reduction Initiative's mission to minimize and, to the extent possible, eliminate the use of HEU in civilian applications worldwide. The NNSA has also partnered with four U.S. domestic commercial entities to accelerate the establishment of a diverse, reliable supply of non-HEU-based Mo-99 within the United States. The NNSA cooperative agreement partners include Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Group to develop LEU solution reactor technology; General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy to develop neutron capture technology; NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC. to develop accelerator technology; and the Morgridge Institute for Research to develop accelerator technology with LEU fission. For more on NNSA's efforts to minimize HEU use in Mo-99 production, see http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/factsheets/factsheet20100125.
A very challenging issue in the current Mo-99 market is below-cost Mo-99 supplies caused by direct foreign government support to the current Mo-99 industry. The prohibitively low cost of Mo-99 undermines the ability of the current international producers to convert from HEU targets to LEU targets, and challenges the ability for new producers to enter the Mo-99 supply chain to replace the aging infrastructure. In order to develop a reliable supply of Mo-99, the market must transition to full cost recovery.
OSTP will continue to work with US Government departments and agencies to ensure a reliable supply of non-HEU-based Mo-99; speed the conversion of existing Mo-99 production processes to those that no longer use HEU; and move the industry to an economically-sustainable model that does not rely on government subsidies to produce the isotope.
John J. Szymanski is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Office of Science and Technology and Parrish Staples is the Director of the Office of European and African Threat Reduction, National Nuclear Security Administration
Sandia National Laboratories is using its Ion Beam Laboratory (IBL) to study how to rapidly evaluate the tougher advanced materials needed to build the next generation of nuclear reactors and extend the lives of current reactors. Recent research was funded by NNSA's Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) program.
Reactor operators need advanced cladding materials, which are the alloys that create the outer layer of nuclear fuel rods to keep them separate from the cooling fluid. Better alloys will be less likely to deteriorate from exposure to everything from coolant fluids to radiation damage.
Operating a reactor causes progressive microstructural changes in the alloys used in cladding, and that can hurt the materials' integrity. However, present-day methods of evaluating materials can take decades.
The LDRD project worked with a variety of samples, everything from high-purity, single-crystal copper to materials used in today's reactors. The Sandia team found that under the right conditions, a combinatorial approach can be used with new alloy compositions produced in-house. The LDRD project demonstrated a fundamental physics simulation of what's happening to the material.
To read more about the research see: https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/reactor_materials/
The United States and Sweden announced today at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit the successful removal of plutonium from Sweden. The plutonium shipment was completed by NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) and was the first shipment of plutonium to the United States under this program. Over 3 kilograms of plutonium was removed and included Swedish, UK, and U.S. origin material stemming from former research and development activities in Sweden. In order to complete this project and due to the sensitive nature of the material, NNSA and Sweden needed to develop facilities to stabilize and repackage the plutonium materials.
NNSA's successful removal of all remaining highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Ukraine was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" this past Sunday. The completion of the mission was announced by President Obama and President Yanukovych during the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea where world leaders are meeting this week to renew commitments to global nuclear security.
Click here to listen to NPR's coverage of NNSA's removal of HEU from Ukraine.
NNSA today concluded International Radiological Assistance Program Training for Emergency Response (I-RAPTER) in Slovenia.The training, co-sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, was provided to 36 nuclear/radiological emergency responders, which included 15 participants from Slovenia and 21 students from 20 other countries.The training was conducted with involvement of personnel from Sandia National Laboratories, the Remote Sensing Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory. To read more about the training see: http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/slovenia
The NNSA's National Ignition Facility (NIF) surpassed a critical milestone in its efforts to meet one of modern science's greatest challenges: achieving fusion ignition and energy gain in a laboratory setting.NIF's 192 lasers fired in perfect unison, delivering a record 1.875 million joules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to the facility's target chamber center. This historic laser shot involved a shaped pulse of energy 23 billionths of a second long that generated 411 trillion watts (TW) of peak power (1,000 times more than the United States uses at any instant in time).The ultraviolet energy produced by NIF (after conversion from the original infrared laser pulse to the final ultraviolet light) was 2.03 MJ before passing through diagnostic instruments and other optics on the way to the target chamber. As a result, NIF is now the world's first 2 MJ ultraviolet laser, generating nearly 100 times more energy than any other laser in operation.To read more about the March 15 record-breaking shot see: https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/Mar/NR-12-03-02.html
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Operations Support Building (OSB) has achieved certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. The OSB, which houses the new Target Alignment System and Final Optics Damage Inspection System alignment labs as well as optics and material handling labs and offices, is the fifth building at LLNL to be LEED-certified and the first in the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate.LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. It provides third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies for improving performance in energy savings, water efficiency, carbon dioxide emissions reduction and other factors. The OSB achieved certification after receiving 21 of 25 submitted rating points.The research and documentation phase started in March 2009 and was completed over the span of 13 months. Construction began in February 2010, and the certification process began in June 2011 and was completed in December 2011. To read more see: https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2012/Mar/ATL-031512_leed.html


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Montana author says wildfires getting more destructive
John Maclean knows about firefighters, and the tragedies they can endure. But still, nothing ever prepares him for hearing news like that out of Arizona, in which 19 Hotshot crew members died while battling a fire.
"I know people die on the job but a whole crew at one whack? It should not happen," said Maclean.
Maclean has written four books on American wildfires, including Fire on the Mountain and The Esperanza Fire, and each time a major one flares up, he knows the true cost it could bring. In fact, he says fires have been getting worse.
"If you talk to people on the fireline, you're talking to believers in climate change. The fires are bigger. They're hotter. There's a whole host of reasons behind it," said Maclean.
He says that includes beetle-killed trees, mixed with high wind events. His research of past events frames his viewpoint.
His research includes the Big Blowup wildfire, which scorched parts of Idaho and Montana. It burned more than 3 million acres, and killed more than 80 people. Maclean says that event was fueled by similar conditions to the dry ones folks are dealing with in modern times.
"This is something that we thought we would put behind us. You haven't put deaths behind you. The notion of never again is a false notion," said Maclean.
When it comes to Montana, he knows the fire season this time around could be a bad one. A wet spring put the grass up, and now a heat wave is drying things up.

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The smell of beer, the sound of furious sweeping and the sight of a man wearing a kilt on an ice rink can only be described with one word: bonspiel.
This weekend the Kansas City Curling Club's 11th Annual Barbeque Bonspiel at Line Creek Community Center includes curlers from across North America. The event began Friday evening and will go through Sunday. This year marks the largest bonspiel (curling tournament) the KC Curling Club has ever hosted, with 128 curlers participating in the weekend's events, 45 of which are local players.
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After everyone has finished eating at the loooong table, after the sun goes down and the evening cool comes, it's time for a walk. Savor the Summit, the annual fundraiser presented by the Park City Area Restaurant Association, takes up the whole of Park City Main Street and after dinner, guests stroll down Main Street and check out the tables they didn't sit at. A couple tables are sure to stop people in their tracks.
Like, a whole lounge full of upholstered sofas, cushy chairs and tropical potted plants has been set up in the middle of Main Street.
Another table is set with iridescent blue tumblers and wineglasses, with ikat-covered chairs.
It's Bill White, of course.
The Park City dining pioneer known for the eye-popping decor of his restaurants is famous for his Savor the Summit tables, too. Chimayo, his Southwestern-themed restaurant, and Wahso, his Asian restaurant, both have tables at the event this year. White's been part of the event since its inception, and his tables are so popular they sell out three days after the conclusion of each year's dinner.
As White says, "If we're going to participate, we're going to stand out. My philosophy is, if you can't be at the top, don't do it."
Savor the Summit isn't a moneymaking endeavor for participants; "it's a giveback to our guests" says White, and "we lose money on it every year. But I don't care."
Clearly not, because also every year, he ups his game.
Like, recently, White's company purchased Hapa Grill; now it's Blue Sushi. The new restaurant will be closed on the night of Savor the Summit and the sushi chefs will be part of the show at Wahso's table.
This is a cooperative event–all the participants are working together to promote Park City dining–but chefs will be chefs and there's an unspoken competition going on for the nonexistent awards of "best-looking table," "most innovative menu," and "most congenial."
Building on the basic theme of Chimayo-by-the-sea, White and his team create a Mexican beach fantasy, complete with its own band–paid for by Bill White Enterprises, not the general Savor monies. Specially purchased plates, glasses and napkins, a constructed centerpiece of sand, flowers and candles, cushy chairs and a whole living room full of furniture and cushions in the lounge area (tickets sold at a lower price for appetizers and drinks) make setting up Savor the Summit a hard day's work.
"I dread it," says White. "Because it's such a huge endeavor. But it's absolutely the best thing in Park City. Even the spectators, who are just walking around and don't have dinner tickets, are just enjoying it. Park City shines like a star. This is what the city is supposed to be. This is good for everybody."


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Transportation news: Pulse of Commerce Index is down
May 27, 2010
Despite economic indicators—and anecdotal reports—indicating to a large degree that the economy is showing signs of a rebound, the most recent results of the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index (PCI) indicate the green economic shoots may not be as advertised.
The PCI, according to Ceridian and UCLA, is based on an analysis of real-time diesel fuel consumption data from over-the-road trucking and is tracked by Ceridian, a provider of electronic and stored value card payment services. The PCI data is accumulated by analyzing Ceridian's electronic card payment data that captures the location and volume of diesel fuel being purchased by trucking companies.
The PCI closely tracks the Federal Reserve's Industrial Production data as well as GDP growth.
After beginning the year with a 0.6 percent gain, the PCI dipped 0.7 percent in February and was followed by a 1 percent uptick in March. It was down again in April, falling 0.3 percent. The PCI was up 6.5 percent year-over-year, marking the fifth straight month of increases as "better than normal" levels, according to Ceridian and UCLA.
"The latest PCI numbers are disappointing and cast considerable doubt on the strength of the recovery and the strength of GDP numbers for 2010," said Ed Leamer, the PCI's chief economist, in a statement. "The next two months will tell if the first quarter's healthy consumer spending will help lift the PCI and propel stronger GDP growth for the year."
And while the PCI is showing annual growth, officials said "expectations in the market for a robust recovery may be too optimistic.
Ceridian Vice President and Index Analyst Craig Manson told LM that April's 0.3 percent decline can be viewed as a disappointment in some respects, in terms of the health of the economy.
"What it means is that economic growth year-to-date is basically flat," said Manson. "It is important to point out that compared to last year that we are up. But GDP and the PCI sequentially are flat following a strong December to finish 2009."
While there is still recovery underway, Manson said these sequential tallies temper the optimism of the recovery regarding the outlook for this quarter and throughout the rest of the year.
Factors driving economic patterns are strong consumer spending in recent weeks, which Manson said is likely to drive growth for inventory re-stocking in the coming months. But in conversations with trucking companies, Manson said the overwhelming message is that conditions are good but not great, indicating it will require more time before a full recovery is intact.
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A handsome Tommy Haas was spotted signing autographs for lucky fans after his big 5-set win over Frenchie headcase Richard Gasquet in the US Open first round.
And, thanks to DtL reader Isa again for tipping me off to the sexy German baller giving some other lucky fans a shirtless show during a practice session over the weekend:
I can't tell which Tommy is hotter - help!
(image via Getty, USOpen.org)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
SIGHTING: A tale of two Tommys - who's hotter?
A handsome Tommy Haas was spotted signing autographs for lucky fans after his big 5-set win over Frenchie headcase Richard Gasquet in the US Open first round.
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You need help for this? I'd think he'd be the one who needs help if any one of us ever get to him...ReplyDelete
I've been at his every practice session so far this week. When he does his shirt change, it takes 6 security guards to keep me off him! ;)
Obviously the shirtless sweaty one...ReplyDelete
I'm representing the minority opinion, I know, but he just does nothing for me. Too perfect looking, maybe? He's a Brad Pitt type, and I'm a Clooney kind of gal.ReplyDelete
But I'm sure he's too into Natch to give me the time of day, anyway! :)
both !!! luck for him i'm stucked at my desk in brussels ;-)ReplyDelete
Will Tommy now qualify as a headcase after his latest 5-set bullshit antics?ReplyDelete
For you he may be a tease in the photos, I think for fans (and folks like me who pick him in tipping comps), he is a tease. How to lose and un-loseable match - well he can now be a co-author of that book with Andy Roddick.
Len: I'll give you that one for sure. He can be and didn't do himself any favors by his behavior during his match against Gilles.ReplyDelete


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