U.S. Department Of Energy: Savannah River Site Has Achieved Major Milestone In Radioactive Waste Processing
Salt Waste Processing Facility, left, and Defense Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River Site. Courtesy/EM
EM News:
AIKEN, S.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced the successful completion of major optimizations across the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) liquid waste treatment system, dramatically accelerating the processing rate of radioactive tank waste and supporting America’s energy and national security goals.
Recent facility optimizations at both the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) and Defense Waste Processing Read More
LANL: Helping Small Businesses Connect With Lab & Thrive
The Partners in Progress event included a panel discussion with LANL small business suppliers. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
The Regional Development Corporation (RDC) and Los Alamos National Laboratory hosted the “Partners in Progress: Doing Business with LANL” event earlier this year, showcasing the Lab’s commitment to supporting and collaborating with local small businesses.
Held at the Santa Claran Event Center in Española, the event provided a range of information on how small businesses can secure contracts to supply goods and services to the Laboratory. The event also included Read More
LANL Foundation Holiday Wishes & Thanks To Community

By Gwen Perea Warniment, PhD
President & CEO
LANL Foundation
As we celebrate the holiday season, we want to say thank you to our wonderful community.
Your generosity has empowered us to provide $1.3 million in scholarships, over $1.3 million in educational grants and program supports for K-12 school systems, $150,000 in stipends for grandparents and kin raising children, over $2 million in pooled funding to support youth internships, work-based learning, and youth leadership, over $300,000 for on-the-ground support for Tribal home visiting, a network to support early childhood Read More
New Documents Added To LANL Public Reading Room
LANL News:
New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.
All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.
For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.
- Submittal of the Phase III Investigation Work Plan for Pueblo Canyon Aggregate Area
https://ext.em-la.doe.gov/GovFTPFiles/api/GetFiles/GetFile?fileName=EMID-704083_EMLA-26-BF004-2-1_Pueblo_Cyn_AA_Ph3_IWP_121825.pdf - Fiscal
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Lighting The Photonics Frontier With Engineered Quantum Dots
By transforming solution-processed nanomaterials into lasing-ready emitters, this breakthrough paves the way for compact, tunable, and energy-efficient quantum-dot light sources that will power the next generation of on-chip photonic technologies. Credit: Donghyo Hahm
LANL News:
- A new breakthrough paves the way for practical, energy-efficient quantum dot lasers
A new study led by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory made a major advance in quantum dot laser technology: the demonstration of low-threshold, continuous-wave (CW) lasing using solution-processed colloidal Read More
Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees Raise $2.7M In 2025 Holiday Giving Campaign For Nonprofits, Children…
Laboratory employee Mariahjozzel Agustin was just one of the 120 volunteers who sorted and delivered gifts as part of the Holiday Toy Drive. Courtesy/LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees joined forces with the Northern New Mexico Toy Drive, donating more than 1,000 toys to be distributed via 14 nonprofit organizations in seven counties. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Funds support New Mexico nonprofits, students, children
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees rose to the challenge for the 2025 Holiday Giving Campaign, donating $2.7 million to make things a little brighter for Read More
Catch Of The Week: Have Yourself A Merry Little Phishmas
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
The holidays are supposed to be about twinkling lights, cookies, time with family, and pretending you are not checking work email (the server room is on fire?? It will be ok till next year right?). Unfortunately, cyber criminals do not take time off; the holidays are one of their busiest seasons of the year!
While you are shopping online, traveling, and clicking through “great deals” … scammers are busy trying to slide into your inbox, texts, and DMs like an uninvited guest at a potluck.
Holiday-themed phishing emails, texts Read More