Latest Bechtel Corporation Stories
COLUMBIA, S.C., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NuHub has partnered with Holtec International, Inc., a diversified energy technology company supplying equipment and systems for the nuclear, solar, geothermal and fossil power generation sectors of the energy industry, to compete for one of two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for small modular reactor (SMR) development. The recently announced federal award, totaling up to $452 million will support engineering,...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Los Alamos National Laboratory's top 10 science stories of 2011 illustrate the broad variety of scientific excellence that's the hallmark of the Laboratory. This year's stories include alternative energy research, world record magnetic fields, disease tracking, the study of Mars, climate change, fuel cells, solar wind, and magnetic reconnection. Mars Habitability Los Alamos National Laboratory's unique scientific...
New five-year agreement for technology development includes HPC, data storage, cyber security, cloud computing, analytics, materials science and data sharing, and mobility LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced the signing of a new Umbrella CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) with EMC Corporation. Together, LANL and EMC will enhance, design, build, test, and deploy new cutting-edge...
McKesson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rimini Street Bring Home Top Honors in 2011 Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) August 11, 2011 T.E.N.-Tech Exec Networks, Inc. announced finalists and winners last evening for the ISE® West Awards 2011. Awards for both Executive and Project categories were presented at a dinner gala at the Westin St. Francis, San Francisco. The awards recognize outstanding achievements in risk management, data asset protection, compliance, and privacy and network...
SANTA FE, N.M., July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma Labs, Inc. (OTCBB: SGLB). Sigma Labs, Inc. announced today that it received from Los Alamos National Laboratory a contract to perform certain machine tool upgrades to the Advanced Recovery and Integrated Extraction System (ARIES). Sigma Labs expects this contract to generate up to $300,000 in revenues. Mark Cola, President of Sigma Labs, states that "ARIES integrates the technologies needed to remove plutonium from the cores of surplus...
MIDLAND, Pa., April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The origination of life is a subject discussed enthusiastically in many scientific circles. Even students find the topic fascinating. Recently a group of high school students enrolled in the Lincoln Interactive Cutting Edge Science (CES) program participated in a videoconference with Hans Ziock, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), to discuss ProtoCells, simple man-made "cells" being created to mimic the most basic...
High School Students Chat with Scientist from Los Alamos National Laboratory MIDLAND, Pa., April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Science textbooks can't cover all of the amazing scientific technologies and breakthroughs that occur every day. That's why Lincoln Interactive offers its students an opportunity to learn beyond the confines of a text book. In monthly chats with researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), high school science and engineering students inquire about...
Cutting Edge Science Club students learn about algae for biofuel research MIDLAND, Pa., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Interacting directly with important figures in the science community is a rare opportunity for high school students, but that is exactly what students taking the Lincoln Interactive online curriculum were able to do in an online video chat with Dr. Scott Twary, a leading plant physiologist and algae researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The...
NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alan M. Dachs, President and CEO of Fremont Group, has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board (http://www.conference-board.org), the global, independent business membership and research association. The role of the Board of Trustees is comparable to that of a Board of Directors in for-profit companies. Dachs succeeds Douglas R. Conant, President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, who steps down after three years as...
Cutting Edge Science Club students expand their horizons MIDLAND, Pa., Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Interacting directly with important figures in the science community is a rare opportunity for high school students, but that is exactly what students taking the Lincoln Interactive online curriculum were able to do in an online video chat with Dr. Sebastian Mernild, a leading climate researcher with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The students, as members of the Cutting...
