Sandia Nuclear Power Safety Expert Elected to National Academy of Engineering July 10, 2015 4:33 pm Dana Powers, a recently retired Sandia senior scientist and nuclear safety expert in Sandia’s Advanced Nuclear Energy Programs, who studied... View Article
Sandia Teaches Nuclear Safety Course July 10, 2015 4:20 pm Measures for keeping nuclear materials out of the wrong hands can be as straightforward as a stout post beam designed... View Article
Sandia–Univ. of Rochester Win Funding to Demonstrate Fuel Magnetization and Laser Heating Tools for Low-Cost Fusion Energy July 7, 2015 4:51 pm Sandia and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the University of Rochester will investigate the compression and heating of... View Article
Record of Decision for Mars 2020 Mission July 1, 2015 4:37 pm NASA issued a record of decision (ROD) to use a nuclear battery (a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator) on the next... View Article
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Technical Assessment Report Released June 18, 2015 3:37 pm The DOE released a report by an independent technical assessment team (TAT) that evaluated the mechanisms and chemical reactions contributing... View Article
Resolving a Key to How Stars Transmit Energy March 5, 2015 7:00 pm Sandia physicist Jim Bailey observes a wire array that will heat foam to roughly 4 million degrees until it emits... View Article
Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light-Water Reactors To Receive Up To $121.5M Over Five Years February 24, 2015 5:13 pm The Department of Energy approved the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light-Water Reactors’ (CASL’s) “Phase 2” renewal to develop advanced... View Article
Sandia Magnetized Fusion Technique Produces Significant Results February 24, 2015 11:44 am Sandia Z-Machine researchers have produced a significant fusion-neutron output, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a... View Article
Recent Sandia International Used Nuclear Fuel Management Collaborations December 15, 2014 12:55 pm During mid November, Evaristo (Tito) Bonano and Sylvia Saltzstein attended three meetings in Tokyo, Japan. The first two meetings focused... View Article