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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [ Watch the Video Advancing Explosives Detection Capabilities: Vapor Detection ] Method focuses on direct, real-time vapor detection rather than collection of explosives particles; could change paradigm for explosives screening A quick, accurate and highly sensitive process to reliably detect minute traces of explosives on luggage, cargo or traveling passengers has been demonstrated by scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest...
Pwnie Express, Leader in Innovative Pentesting Products Joins Leaders in Government and Academia at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Discuss Cyber Security. Oak Ridge, TN (PRWEB) January 08, 2013 Vermont-based Pwnie Express, leader in innovative penetration testing products, will be a Silver Sponsor at this year’s Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW) held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on January 8-10, 2013. The conference...
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Symbiotic relationship between pollutants and airborne particles explains how city pollution ends up in Arctic Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic, even though it should decay long before it travels that far. Now, lab research can explain how pollution makes its lofty journey: rather than ride on the surface of airborne particles, pollutants snuggle inside, protected from the elements on the way....
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Algorithm to identify matching patterns, MPI code translator to be discussed Wednesday From identifying common patterns in data to speeding up computers, researchers from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will share their computational expertise at this year's Supercomputing conference. Also referred to as SC12, the annual gathering is the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online When you want to protect your skin from the harmful rays of the Sun, you employ some sort of sun block. It might be a lotion or a cream; it might even be a shirt or an umbrella to filter the effects. But what would you use to protect the entire planet from the Sun? Apparently that is the question that an increasing number of scientists are trying to answer; ways to temporarily reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth to stave...
Radiation safety and worker protection firm Dade Moeller announces its expanded role at the Hanford nuclear site, providing technical direction and operation of the radiation dosimetry program components of the site’s radiological site services (RSS) Richland, WA (PRWEB) October 08, 2012 Radiation safety and worker protection firm Dade Moeller announces its expanded role at the Hanford nuclear site, providing technical direction and operation of the radiation dosimetry program...
Images show how nickel, which enhances battery capacity, also appears to hinder charging rates Anyone who owns an electronic device knows that lithium ion batteries could work better and last longer. Now, scientists examining battery materials on the nano-scale reveal how nickel forms a physical barrier that impedes the shuttling of lithium ions in the electrode, reducing how fast the materials charge and discharge. Published last week in Nano Letters, the research also suggests a way to...
PNNL tests adsorbent to extract uranium from the ocean When you take a dip in the ocean, nuclear fuel is probably the farthest thing from your mind. Uranium floats in Earth’s oceans in trace amounts of just 3 parts per billion, but it adds up. Combined, our oceans hold up to 4.5 billion tons of uranium – enough to potentially fuel the world’s nuclear power plantsfor 6,500 years. Countries such as Japan have examined the ocean as a uranium source since the 1960s, but previous...
Pollution and summer thunderstorm clouds are an adverse combination when it comes to climate change, as a new computer simulation has shown that the two seemingly unrelated entities are combining to warm the atmosphere. The findings, which were announced by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Friday and published in the May 10 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, were the result of simulations conducted by PNNL climate researcher Jiwen...
PNNL estimates potential HVAC energy savings for U.S. commercial buildings RICHLAND, Wash. – U.S. commercial building owners could save an average of 38 percent on their heating and cooling bills if they installed a handful of energy efficiency controls that make their heating, ventilation and air conditioning, also known as HVAC, systems more energy efficient, according to a recent report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The estimated savings were...
