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- More plutonium removed from Livermore Lab
- LIVERMORE -- Another shipment of weapons-grade nuclear material has made its way out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the National Nuclear Security Administration reported Thursday. Together with two previous shipments, this brings the total amount of plutonium and uranium down 25 percent. The time...
- Research articles 2008-03-29
- Livermore Lab ships new load of plutonium
- LIVERMORE -- Another shipment of weapons-grade nuclear material has made its way out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the National Nuclear Security Administration reported Thursday. Together with two previous shipments, this brings the total amount of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium down 25 percent. The...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Plutonium makes its way out of Livermore
- LIVERMORE -- Another shipment of weapons-grade nuclear material has made its way out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the National Nuclear Security Administration reported Thursday. Together with two previous shipments, this brings the total amount of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium down 25 percent. The...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Livermore Lab ships third plutonium batch
- LIVERMORE -- Another shipment of weapons-grade nuclear material has made its way out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the National Nuclear Security Administration reported Thursday. Together with two previous shipments, this brings the total amount of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium down 25 percent. The...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Watchdog wants plutonium out of Livermore Lab by 2009
- With a public hearing on the future of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory continuing today in Livermore, a government watchdog group has released a report calling for plutonium to be removed from the lab by next year. The Department of Energy is already planning to move all but...
- Research articles 2008-03-19
- New Livermore facility to detect West Nile, anthrax
- A newly constructed laboratory equipped to handle deadly airborne pathogens such as anthrax, bird flu and West Nile virus began operating Friday at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The new Biosafety Level 3 lab allows scientists to test detection devices being developed at the lab against the pathogens...
- Research articles 2008-01-29
- Testing for deadly pathogens to begin in Livermore
- A newly constructed laboratory equipped to handle deadly airborne pathogens such as anthrax, bird flu and West Nile virus began operating Friday at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The new Biosafety Level 3 lab allows scientists to test detection devices being developed at the lab against the pathogens...
- Research articles 2008-01-29
- Testing for deadly pathogens to begin in Livermore
- A newly constructed laboratory equipped to handle deadly airborne pathogens such as anthrax, bird flu and West Nile virus began operating Friday at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The new Biosafety Level 3 lab allows scientists to test detection devices being developed at the lab against the pathogens...
- Research articles 2008-01-29
- Nuke labs face major cutbacks
- LIVERMORE -- The Department of Energy revealed draft plans Tuesday to consolidate nuclear weapons work at eight sites, including Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories, a move that could result in a 20 to 30 percent reduction in work force and the closing of 600 buildings. At...
- Research articles 2007-12-19
- Exegy Makes Announcement at SC07
- ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working in collaboration with Exegy, the hardware acceleration company, to develop high-speed search applications to improve national security. Livermore is exploring ground-breaking technologies developed by commercial businesses to advance national security applications and chose the Exegy Text Miner...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- UC slapped with $450,000 fine over anthrax release
- WASHINGTON -- The University of California has been fined $450,000 for the release of anthrax in September 2005 from a shipped package that was improperly packed by workers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which until earlier this week was managed by the university. The fine, which came...
- Research articles 2007-10-07
- Site 300 doesn't make bio-lab list
- TRACY -- Federal officials have whittled down their list of potential locations for a proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, and Site 300, in the hills south of Tracy, is not on it. The Department of Homeland Security selected sites in Mississippi, Kansas, Texas, North Carolina and...
- Research articles 2007-07-12
- Tracy site doesn't make cut
- TRACY -- Federal officials have whittled down their list of potential locations for a proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, and Site 300, located in the hills south of Tracy, is not on it. The Department of Homeland Security selected sites in Mississippi, Kansas, Texas, North Carolina...
- Research articles 2007-07-12
- Uncompensable cancer
- In 2001, the federal Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act went into effect. The program offered a $150,000 lump sum payment to Department of Energy workers who had been exposed to dangerous conditions through their jobs. The government estimated it would receive 3,000 claims a year....
- Research articles 2007-07-02
- Feds try to reassure lab workers Officials respond to Livermore Lab
- Federal nuclear weapons officials tried calming Lawrence Livermore Lab workers Friday after word that new federal requirements could result in lower retirement benefits. With dozens of angry employee phone calls and e-mails pouring into Washington, the National Nuclear Security Administration put out a statement reassuring workers that...
- Research articles 2007-06-23
- Lab staff face leaner retirement
- The message in 40 pages of bland green slides hit research engineer Grace Clark like a body blow -- after more than 30 years at Lawrence Livermore Lab, about a fifth of her future retirement benefits are at risk of vanishing, just like that. She and thousands...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Lab staff face leaner retirement
- The message in 40 pages of bland green slides hit research engineer Grace Clark like a body blow -- after more than 30 years at Lawrence Livermore Lab about a fifth of her future retirement benefits are at risk of vanishing, just like that. She and thousands...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Pension changes challenge for Lawrence Livermore
- FOR DECADES, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been a unique place to work. During the decades of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, it offered challenging work at competitive compensation that was clearly in the national interest. During that time, work centered on nuclear weapons,...
- Research articles 2007-05-13
- Right place, wrong time for new nukes
- WERE in a position similar to that of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D- Calif., and Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Alamo: We applaud the Bush administrations selection of scientists at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National laboratories to design nuclear Reliable Replacement Warheads -- or RRWs -- but wonder whether theyre necessary and doubt...
- Research articles 2007-03-11
- Lab seeks a new role Lawrence Livermore's Site 300 wants to be home
- TRACY -- Nestled in the hills between Tracy and Livermore, straddling the border of Alameda and San Joaquin counties, sits the largest explosives testing facility in the free world. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Site 300 -- which opened in the 1950s as a remote high explosives testing...
- Research articles 2006-12-11
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