Sandia to put nuclear waste storage canisters to the test January 13, 2021 2:49 pm Sandia National Laboratories is outfitting three 22.5-ton, 16.5-feet-long stainless-steel storage canisters with heaters and instrumentation to simulate nuclear waste so... View Article
Women@Energy features Sandia’s Elena Kalinina December 15, 2020 8:00 am This month, the Department of Energy’s STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories’ Spent Nuclear Fuel Scientist... View Article
Sandia secures six regional technology transfer awards November 22, 2020 10:52 am For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology, and creatively working with companies,... View Article
Women@Energy features Sandia’s Sylvia Saltzstein May 28, 2020 8:15 am This month, the Department of Energy’s STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories’ Sylvia Saltzstein, currently the... View Article
High-speed fire footage reveals key insights for power plant safety December 23, 2019 3:47 pm by Melissae Fellet High energy arcing faults are high-power electrical discharges between two or more conductors that can release tens... View Article
Containing a nuclear accident with ground-up minerals October 17, 2019 2:56 pm Sandia’s injectable materials could stop contamination from spreading By Kristen Meub Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a promising... View Article
Sandia technology may substantially reduce thermoelectric power water usage June 6, 2019 2:15 pm Thanks to technology created by Sandia researchers, cooling power plants using significantly less water may someday be a reality. The... View Article
Sandia Assists NASA in Understanding Launch-Area Accidents October 29, 2015 6:06 pm Some NASA spacecraft, those which operate on the surface of other planets or are too far from the sun, require... View Article
University of Wisconsin–Sandia Team Awarded SunShot CSP: APOLLO Funding October 21, 2015 9:57 pm With recently awarded funding from the US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative’s CSP: APOLLO Program (Concentrating Solar Power: Advanced Projects... View Article
Sandia’s Supercritical Carbon-Dioxide/Brayton-Cycle Laboratory Signs Important MOU with Industry Partners September 23, 2015 11:14 pm Sandia and eight other companies and research organizations* will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner,... View Article