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NCA Elite SDVOB / DVBE Honored Guest Speaker: Jim Swanson of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Recorded on 11-15-09 at Grange Hall in Danville, CA. Part 2 of 3.
A BEGINNING WITHOUT END 1968 LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY PROMO FILM 51684
A Beginning Without End is a 1968 educational film, produced by the Atomic Energy Commission’s Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, that gives viewers a look at the latest in nuclear research as well as a brief history of atomic development by the agency. The film features topics such as converting matter into energy, the nuclear research conducted at the AEC’s Berkeley and Livermore sites, particle accelerators, the discovery of new elements, and the uses and effects of radiation. The film opens with images of space, footage of mountains, a watch being built, and scientists using microscopes. Viewers are taken to the University of California Berkley campus where the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory looks out over the city (03:30). Inside the facility, scientists research atomic energy and nuclear capabilities (04:00). The film shows viewers an image of the first cyclotron (04:37). Photographs show scientists developing cyclotrons for atomic research. Professor Ernest Lawrence explains how a cyclotron works on a national educational program (05:46). The program shows photographs of different cyclotrons, including the massive cyclotron used for the Manhattan Project (07:50). Operators work on radioactive elements using a water cage (08:55). A heavy ion linear accelerator is used to produce new atoms (09:28). Tests are conducted in a biodynamics laboratory (10:35). A patient receives a dose of radiation from a cyclotron, which directs the dose into the patient’s pituitary gland (12:40). Members of the Inorganic Materials Research Division study atomic developments in a nuclear reactor core. Researchers study superconductivity (14:25), leading to new more powerful magnets. Livermore Director Dr. Michael May sits at a table with other men. A high-speed computer helps physicists with possible outcomes of nuclear tests (15:27). Footage from the Plowshare Program shows the underground detonation of a thermonuclear device in Sudan (16:35); the program is testing using nuclear bombs to move large-scale amounts of earth. Biomedical scientists study the effects of radiation from materials collected at the Sudan site. Men machine parts from radioactive materials for new prototypes (20:00). A machine shapes a powerful explosive by remote control at Site 300, a test center for explosives (21:00). Several people test the detonating of nitromethane (21:37). Nuclear debris is collected from a detonation site and shipped to Livermore for analysis (22:56). Members of the Sherwood Group work to recreate miniature suns. The film shows some of the support people behind each scientist, as well as part-time employees, like graduate students, who help with nuclear research. Dr. Edwin McMillan looks at blueprints for the Bevatron (25:58); the film shows viewers the completed Bevatron. The film ends with a montage of shots of various scientists working with animals, chemicals, and computers as they continue their nuclear research.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. A Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), it is primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and managed and operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), a partnership of the University of California, Bechtel, BWX Technologies, AECOM, and Battelle Memorial Institute in affiliation with the Texas A&M University System. In 2012, the laboratory had the synthetic chemical element livermorium named after it.
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Top-secret super-secure Los Alamos vault declassified
Down in a remote canyon near Los Alamos National Laboratory lies a facility known as the Tunnel Vault, once one of the most secret and secure locations in the United States, it's the original post-WWII nuclear stockpile storage area. Located in Los Alamos canyon at Technical Area 41, the Tunnel Vault was built between 1948 and 1949. The facility has a formidable security perimeter, a hardened guard tower — complete with gun ports and bulletproof glass — and a series of gates and doors that lead to a 230-foot long concrete tunnel that goes straight into the canyon wall. At the end of the tunnel is a large alcove room with a single bank vault door. Through that door is a vault built inside a vault with five storage areas, all protected with identical bank vault doors. Over the years the Tunnel Vault was also used as a nuclear materials and nuclear fuel storage area, a weapons research and development laboratory, weapons components storage, and nuclear material assembly for tests both in the Pacific and in Nevada. About halfway down the tunnel is a side room that was used for early development of unclassified research that led to the discovery of the solar neutrino — work that later won a Nobel Prize in physics — a lab space ideal for the work because it's buried 300-feet deep underground.
What is Machine Learning?
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Robot cops to roam space
In the absence of red and green lights to control traffic in space, a team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is developing mini-satellites that will work as traffic cops to help prevent collisions.
Interview with John Brandenburg: Evidence of Thermonuclear Explosion on Mars
In 2015, a newly published book by plasma physicist John Brandenburg, Ph.D., was entitled,“Death On Mars: The Discovery of A Planetary Nuclear Massacre.” Sixty-three-year-old John Brandenburg received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Plasma Physics at the University of California-Davis extension campus at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California in 1981. His Ph.D. thesis was about magnetic confinement of plasmas for controlled nuclear fusion. For his book, he analyzed United States 1976 Viking spacecraft data about the Martian atmosphere as well as two Viking images of the so-called “Face on Mars,” that stares upward from a Martian highland in the northern hemisphere called Cydonia Mensae.
In spite of NASA/JPL's insistence that there is nothing to the Face except “a trick of light and shadow,” other scientists have done their own research since the early 1980s and concluded there are eyes, a nose, mouth, teeth and a horizontally striped Egyptian-looking headdress. Other scientists who have also studied the Face and are convinced it is not natural are Mark Carlotto, Ph.D., of The Analytical Sciences Corporation; electrical engineer Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, computer analyst, who worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center; and cartographer Erol Torun at the Defense Mapping Agency in Washington, D. C.
These scientists have argued that the Face and nearby features of a large 5-sided pyramid and other structural geometries are the remnants of intelligent inhabitants long ago, not tricks of light and shadow.
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17 National Labs: Changing the World We Live In
When I became Secretary of Energy, I made a commitment to personally visit all 17 of our National Labs. I’m pleased to report that I recently completed that fascinating journey and had the privilege of seeing the incredible work being undertaken by our Nation’s brightest minds.
Our nation’s commitment to science and innovation is alive and thriving. DOE’s labs are constantly pushing the bounds of innovation, advancing our national security, making breakthroughs in everything from materials science to medical research, and developing the next generation of energy technologies that will literally change the world.
But what has most impressed me, whether at Forrestal, in the field, or at a lab, has been the amazing men and women of the DOE Team. DOE and National Lab employees work day-in and day-out to expand human understanding, overcome challenges and improve lives. Seeing it all first-hand reminds me how fortunate we all are to work at DOE ... because our work is consequential. We don’t have to look in the mirror each morning and wonder if what we are doing matter, we already know the answer.
I am immensely proud of America’s National Labs and all the great people who work to advance DOE’s mission. Thank you to the men and women of DOE and our National Labs for always impressing me, educating me and reminding me that having the chance to lead the Department of Energy is by far the coolest job I will ever have. – Secretary Rick Perry
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National Ignition Facility - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. NIF uses lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel to the point where nuclear fusion reactions take place. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear weapons. NIF is the largest and most energetic ICF device built to date, and the largest laser in the world.
Construction on the NIF began in 1997 but management problems and technical delays slowed progress into the early 2000s. Progress after 2000 was smoother, but compared to initial estimates, NIF was completed five years behind schedule and was almost four times more expensive than originally budgeted. Construction was certified complete on 31 March 2009 by the U.S. Department of Energy, and a dedication ceremony took place on 29 May 2009. The first large-scale laser target experiments were performed in June 2009 and the first integrated ignition experiments were declared completed in October 2010.
Bringing the system to its full potential was a lengthy process that was carried out from 2009 to 2012. During this period a number of experiments were worked into the process under the National Ignition Campaign, with the goal of reaching ignition just after the laser reached full power, some time in the second half of 2012. The Campaign officially ended in September 2012, at about the conditions needed for ignition. Experiments since then have pushed this closer to , but considerable theoretical and practical work is required if the system is ever to reach ignition.
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Wings In Space: Jose M. Hernandez
José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962), is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.
Hernández was born in French Camp, California, but calls Stockton, California, his hometown. His family is from La Piedad, Michoacán, with indigenous Purépecha roots.[3][4] In an August 25, 2009 conversation with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, Hernández stated that as a child, he lived half the year in La Piedad and half in the United States.[4] As a child, Hernández worked alongside his family and other farmworkers throughout the fields of California, harvesting crops and moving from one town to another. He attended many schools and didn't learn to speak English until he was 12.[5] Hernández was assigned to the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-128. He also served as chief of the Materials and Processes branch of Johnson Space Center. Hernández previously developed equipment for full-field digital mammography at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Hernández left NASA in 2011.
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Why Metallic Hydrogen Is the Holy Grail of High Pressure Physics
Making hydrogen a metal takes lot of pressure. But after a group of scientist’s lost the world’s first sample, the pressure is really on.
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Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers
“With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal. Their research, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, could improve understanding of giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn whose interiors are believed to be awash with liquid metallic hydrogen.”
What in the World Is Metallic Hydrogen?
“On Earth, as we've seen, hydrogen's behavior is straightforward. But Jupiter isn’’t Earth, and the hydrogen found in abundance within and beneath the great bands and swirling storms of its atmosphere can be pushed beyond its normal limits.”
Insulator-metal transition in dense fluid deuterium
“The conditions in which hydrogen disassociates and becomes an atomic metal occur in high-energy-density environments, such as the interiors of giant planets and nuclear explosions. Celliers et al. trained 168 lasers on deuterium samples at the National Ignition Facility to measure the pressure and temperature conditions of the hydrogen transition.”
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Super Spy: SR-71 Blackbird With Brian Shul | Blackbirds to Butterflies
The Ultimate Super Spy Plane Major Brian Shul SR-71 Blackbird
Speed Check Story:
Shul was the first pilot to write a book about flying the SR-71. This story comes from his book Sled Driver: Flying the World’s Fastest Jet, first published in 1991, now in its sixth printing.
Walter and I had just completed the 100 hours required to attain Mission Ready status in the jet. Ripping across the Arizona deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California.
I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace.
We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: “November Charlie 175, I’m showing you at 90 knots on the ground.”
Now the thing to understand about Center controllers was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the “Houston Center voice.” Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.
Just moments after the Cessna’s inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. “I have you at 125 knots of ground speed.” Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a Navy F/A-18 pilot out of Naval Air Station Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. “Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check.” Before Center could reply, I’m thinking to myself, “Hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout?” Then I got it. Ol’ Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He’s the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same calm voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: “Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground.”
And I thought to myself: Is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done. That Hornet must die, and die now.
Then I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, Walter spoke: “Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?” There was no hesitation: “Aspen 20, I show you at 1,842 knots, across the ground.”
I think it was the “42 knots” that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. Walt keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: “Ah, Center, much thanks, we’re showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money.”
For a moment, Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A. came back with “Roger that Aspen. Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one.”
It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on frequency were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day’s work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.
(Credit to: Brian Shul, Blackbird Diaries, Stories from the fastest jet ever flown.)
Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:52 1 History
00:03:01 1.1 The Manhattan Project
00:06:43 1.2 Post-war
00:09:35 1.3 Post-Cold War
00:16:19 2 Science mission
00:22:08 3 Laboratory management and operations
00:22:40 3.1 Contract changes
00:26:02 3.2 Safety Management
00:27:25 4 Extended operations
00:29:37 5 Controversy and criticism
00:31:10 6 Institutional statistics
00:32:34 7 Directors
00:33:52 8 Notable scientists
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It is located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
Los Alamos was selected as the top secret location for bomb design in late 1942, and officially commissioned the next year. At the time it was known as Project Y, one of a series of laboratories located across the United States given letter names to maintain their secrecy. Los Alamos was the centre for design and overall coordination, while the other labs, today known as Oak Ridge and Argonne, concentrated on the production of uranium and plutonium bomb fuels. Los Alamos was the heart of the project, collecting together some of the world's most famous scientists, among them numerous Nobel Prize winners. The site was known variously as Project Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory through this period.
The lab's existence was announced to the world in the post-WWII era, when it became known universally as Los Alamos. In 1952, the Department of Energy formed a second design lab under the direction of the University of California, Berkeley, becoming the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Since that date the two labs have competed on a wide variety of bomb designs. With the ending of the Cold War, both labs turned their focus increasingly to civilian missions. Today, Los Alamos is one of the largest science and technology institutions in the world. It conducts multidisciplinary research in fields such as national security, space exploration, nuclear fusion, renewable energy, medicine, nanotechnology, and supercomputing. The town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, directly north of the lab, grew extensively through this period.
After several reorganizations, the LANL is currently managed and operated by Triad National Security, LLC.
Forensic Science In Crisis: How Proteins Can Help
Science On Screen® brings you to the State Theatre Modesto, CA for a screening of Gattaca.
About the Speaker
Dr. Bradley Hart is the director of the Forensic Science Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1996 with a BS in chemistry, then received his PhD in 2001 from the University of California, Irvine. He began his career in 2001 as a postdoc at LLNL in the Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate. He served as a staff scientist in the FSC from 2003–2008, at which point he left the laboratory to serve as a branch chief within the Department of Defense. While there, he was responsible for the planning and oversight of worldwide CBRNE/Biometric collection and exploitation operations. He developed, established, and oversaw the operation of multiple forensic exploitation laboratories both inside and outside of the continental United States. Dr. Hart returned to LLNL in 2011. In his current role, he oversees operational sample receipt and analysis efforts, as well as research related to the development and application of a variety of methodologies related to forensic science.
Dr. Deon Anex is chemist in the Forensic Science Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received his BS in chemistry from Louisiana State University, and his PhD in physical chemistry and physics from Indiana University. Dr. Anex is part of the research team at LLNL that is developing a groundbreaking technique that provides a second science-based, statistically validated way to identify people and link individuals to evidence in addition to DNA profiling: human hair.
Dr. Katelyn Mason is part of the postdoctoral research staff in the Forensic Science Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research interests include forensic analysis of protein-containing samples, bioinformatics of high-throughput proteomic and metabolomic datasets obtained from liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, and high-resolution protein structure determination using solution NMR spectroscopy and elucidation of protein function through biochemical analysis. Dr. Mason received her BS in biochemistry from Fort Lewis College, and her PhD in biochemistry from Montana State University.
National Ignition Facility makes fusion breakthrough
Originally published on October 8, 2013
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) lab in California have reached a key milestone in the search for self-sustaining nuclear fusion.
Fusion is the process that powers the sun. It is seen by scientists as the holy grail of energy production as it promises a cheap, unlimited source of energy.
During an experiment in September at NIF - which is located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - the amount of energy released by the fusion reaction exceeded the energy absorbed by the fuel. A first for one of several projects around the world aimed at harnessing fusion.
The National Ignition Facility's fusion experiment employs a 10mm long target container known as a hohlraum. Inside the hohlraum is a fuel pellet containing deuterium-tritium.
The hohlraum is then placed inside a cryogenically-cooled holder that keeps it at a steady temperature of 18 degrees kelvin.
The process at NIF sees 192 powerful laser beams converge inside the hohlraum generating a bath of x-rays. The x-rays cause the tiny target sphere to implode and ignite a controlled, self-sustaining fusion reaction.
The success of the experiment brings the goal of fusion one step closer, although inefficiencies mean that some of the laser energy is lost in the process.
But this achievement has been described as the single most meaningful step for fusion in the half century race to bring the much coveted process closer to reality.
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Turning ocean water into drinking water
Tiny carbon nanotubes could be the future of drinking water. Livermore researchers are finding ways to make it cheaper and easier to desalinate ocean water, making it safe to drink.
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Nuclear fusion breakthrough promises unlimited energy
Originally published on February 14, 2014
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American scientists said announced a breakthrough in the development of nuclear fusion, which could lead to an inexhaustible supply of energy.
A series of nuclear fusion experiments aimed at replicating nuclear fusion - the same process that powers the sun - have been conducted since 2009 at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The important NIF milestone for energy experts was ignition, where the energy produced is greater than the amount of energy put in.
The fusion experiment employs a 10mm long target container known as a hohlraum. Inside the hohlraum is a fuel pellet containing two hydrogen isotopes deuterium-tritium.
The hohlraum is then placed inside a cryogenically-cooled holder that keeps it at a steady temperature of 18 degrees kelvin (-400 degrees Fahrenheit).
The process sees 192 powerful laser beams converge inside the hohlraum generating a bath of x-rays.
At high temperatures, the nuclei of deuterium and tritium are fused together. Alpha particles, which are helium atoms without any electrons, are produced, generating a large amount of energy.
The public has been skeptical of the nuclear fusion experiments conducted at the federally-funded laboratory, which was built with a five billion dollar price tag.
The team failed to achieve nuclear fusion in October 2012, a deadline set by the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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Argonne Outloud Promo: How & Why I Became a Scientist
A college football player, a budding biologist, and a rock guitarist walk into a national lab...
The true-life stories of Argonne scientists are as varied and inspiring as the research they perform at the lab. Come hear firsthand the unexpected career journeys of three scientists whose unique paths all led to Argonne’s gates. Who knows, perhaps their stories will inspire your budding scientist!
Our speakers:
Jarrad Hampton-Marcell, Research Laboratory Coordinator in the Biosciences Division. Once a star college football player in Chicago, Jarrad now tackles novel uses of microbes in industrial processes.
Jennifer Fowler, Cyber Security Analyst in the Global Security Sciences Division. After studying the genetic makeup of corn, Jennifer discovered that her true passion was in working to ensure the security and safety of cyberspace.
Jason Croy, Materials Scientist in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division. This rocker-turned-researcher changed his tune from heavy metal to metal chemistry as he turned a passion for physics into a career in battery research.
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