Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons labs»

Asked about the persistence of the Los Alamos lab's problems, former NNSA director Miller smiled and said her colleagues at the nuclear oversight agency sometimes told the following joke: If Washington sent all three of America's nuclear weapons labs an order to study how to «jump,» they would all respond differently.

Last month, cryptocurrency miners were even found in a Russian nuclear weapons lab and on thousands of government websites.

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The government is also combining separate nuclear weapons research programs at Kahn's lab and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission under a new entity, the National Defense Complex, leaving the commission to manage civilian nuclear activities.

In that position, Grover had noticed a communications breakdown, specifically because the secure nature of the lab's nuclear weapons work meant that employees were unable to have cell phones in their offices.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, head of the country's major nuclear weapons research lab, is credited with setting up Pakistan's uranium enrichment facilities.

But the contamination from the underground salt mine in the Chihuahuan Desert - where radioactive waste from U.S. nuclear labs and weapons facilities is deposited - was unlikely to have harmed the workers» health, inspectors said.

As administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and undersecretary for nuclear security at the Department of Energy, D'Agostino oversees the nation's three weapons labs — Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Nuclear Security Administration and undersecretary for nuclear security at the Department of Energy, D'Agostino oversees the nation's three weapons labs — Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and nuclear security at the Department of Energy, D'Agostino oversees the nation's three weapons labs — Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia.

Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61 - 12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track to slam nose - first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high - speed accident.

8 That same year, six Milwaukee teens hacked into Los Alamos National Lab, which develops nuclear weapons.

For several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testing.

Analysts estimate the cuts could force layoffs of at least 7000 employees at about a dozen of the labs not involved in nuclear weapons work.

McMillan, a nuclear physicist and weapons designer with government - funded compensation exceeding a million dollars a year, responded that he had believed the problems could be solved while that lab kept operating.

With two of the four experts remaining in her Washington office overlooking the national mall, Miller picked up the phone and called the lab's director, Charles McMillan, at his own office on the idyllic Los Alamos campus in the New Mexico mountains, where nuclear weapons work is financed by a federal payment exceeding $ 2 billion a year.

Frank Graziani has spent 27 years at the Laboratory where he has advanced the science of the national weapons program, nurtured and developed new staff and has collaborated with technical staff at all levels, all labs, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the broader academic community.

According to BuzzFeed News, a joint venture between NASA, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and weapons labs from the Energy Department has resulted in designs for a spacecraft capable of saving the planet.