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
Sandia Research Featured on Journal of Physical Chemistry A Cover July 15, 2015 4:22 pm As part of Sandia’s core geochemistry program funded by DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Sandia’s Randall Cygan (in... View Article
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