#lanl — Public Fediverse posts

“U.S. Underestimates Peril if Los Alamos Were to Leak Plutonium, Study Says”

#LANL #nuclear

https://searchlightnm.org/u-s-underestimates-peril-if-los-alamos-were-to-leak-plutonium-study-says/

#Perseverance appears to be really focused on those #JezeroBrightRocks at its current location.

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking NNE (13°) from RMC 91.0000
Sol 1949, LMST: 12:57:40
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01949/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1949_0839963701_229EBY_N0910000SCAM04949_0100I6J02.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #LANL #CNES #IRAP/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

More of those #JezeroBrightRocks in the vicinity of #Perseverance. This one is seen through the SUPERCAM instrument. Shown in a red ellipse in the context image.

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking NNW (346°) from RMC 91.0000
Sol 1950, LMST: 12:37:41
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01950/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1950_0840051243_285EBY_N0910000SCAM01950_0100I6J01.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #LANL #CNES #IRAP/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

A stone seen through #Perseverance's telescope

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking NNW (344°) from RMC 91.0000
Sol 1948, LMST: 11:11:12
Originals: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01948/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1948_0839868363_229EBY_N0910000SCAM02948_0050I6J01.png
NAVCAM:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01948/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NLF_1948_0839870114_115EBY_N0910000SCAM02948_00_0LLJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #LANL #CNES #IRAP/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117028214767600488

Where is #AOC? Or New Mexico's blue dog #LANL Lab Warriors: Senators "Lockheed" Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Grumman?

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases

SmoQyDQMC.jl: A flexible implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo for Hubbard and electron-phonon interactions (version 2.0 release)

Benjamin Cohen-Stead et al.

Paper:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 29-v2.0
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.29-v2.0

SmoQyDQMC.jl-v2.0:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 29-r2.0
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.29-r2.0

#UTK #UCD #LANL

Community Votes to Deny #Water to #NuclearWeapons #DataCenter
America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an #AI data center next week, but the Ypsilanti Township in Michigan where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.The $1.2 billion 220,000 square foot facility would be used by Los Alamos National Laboratories (#LANL) some 1,500 miles away for nuclear #weapons research.
https://www.404media.co/community-votes-to-deny-water-to-nuclear-weapons-data-center/
https://archive.ph/vW67e

Looks like #Perseverance is finding more of those #spherules we saw last year, this time in loose regolith, too.

Earlier on Mars:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/114145603400311123
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/114975857351453403

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking SE (125°) from RMC 87.4152
Sol 1833, LMST: 12:02:01
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01833/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1833_0829662423_242EBY_N0874152SCAM01833_0100I6J01.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #LANL #CNES #IRAP/65dBnoise

#JezeroCraterSpherules #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

#ETHZ:
"
Den Mond mit Glasfasern durchleuchten
"
"Künftige Mondmissionen könnten ein Hilfsmittel nutzen, das wir vom schnellen Internet zu Hause kennen: Glasfaserkabel. Forschende der ETH Zürich und aus den USA untersuchen derzeit, ob diese leichten Kabel dabei helfen, das Innere des Mondes zu erforschen und Mondbeben präzise zu messen."

https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/eth-news/news/2026/03/den-mond-mit-glasfasern-durchleuchten.html

24.3.2026

#DistributedAcousticSensing #Geophysik #Glasfaser #Glasfasersensorik #Kabel #LANL #Mond #Mondbeben #Mondstaub #Seismologie

“Los Alamos confirms UMich data center to be used for #nuclear weapons research.

A representative of Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed nuclear weapons research will be a priority for its portion of the data center it intends to construct in collaboration with the University of #Michigan in #Ypsilanti Township.”

#LANL

https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/los-alamos-confirms-umich-data-center-to-be-used-for-nuclear-weapons-research/

A very interesting closeup of a rock next to #Perseverance, showing some intriguing curved stripes. Millimeter scale.

Full frame, detail, and cross-eyed pseudo 3D images

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking from RMC 87.0000
Sol 1798, LMST: 11:22:33
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01798/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1798_0826552881_315EBY_N0870000SCAM02798_0050I6J01.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #LANL #CNES #IRAP/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

"
New Mexico Rebukes Federal Agency Over Nuclear Waste at Los Alamos

State environmental regulators will also fine the Energy Department up to $16 million for exceeding safe groundwater standards near the nuclear lab.
"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/new-mexico-los-alamos-nuclear-waste-fines.html

11.2.2026

#aquifer #Atombombe #Atomkraft #Atommüll #groundwater #Grundwasser #Kernenergie #LANL #landfill #LosAlamos #NewMexico #NuclearWaste #pollution #USA #WIPP

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.”

#LANL #NM #nuclear #MED

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...

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

#LANL #ASU

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

#FederalLabs #Nuclear #Science #LANL

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"

#LANL #NuclearWeapons

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"

#LANL #nuclear #ColdWar

https://searchlightnm.org/a-nuclear-legacy-in-los-alamos/

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"

#RioGrande #LANL #nuclear

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"

#nuclear #LANL

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/26/los-alamos-new-mexico-plutonium-contamination