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Updated at 10 a.m. Service tomorrow for MST-7's Larry Foreman Larry Foreman of Polymers and Coatings (MST-7) passed away Tuesday after a courageous battle with cancer. A memorial service will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday at the United Church in Los Alamos. Foreman joined the Laboratory in 1981 in the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) target fabrication group (then L-7). He remained involved with target fabrication throughout his Laboratory career, serving as ICF project leader for target fabrication and deputy group leader at the time of his death. Larry was known for his enthusiasm, inventiveness and boundless energy throughout the ICF community. His seminal work with Jim Hoffer of Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics (MST-10) on Beta-layering of frozen DT has served as a basis for ignition targets planned for the National Ignition Facility now under construction at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was the recipient of six distinguished performance awards, four patents and mostly recently the prestigious Teller Medal. Anyone wishing to contribute to the Dr. Larry Foreman Memorial Scholarship Fund may do so at the Los Alamos National Bank, 1200 Trinity Drive, Los Alamos, NM 87544. |
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Laboratory criticality safety expert going to Japan
Thomas P. McLaughlin, group leader for Criticality Safety (ESH-6), is headed to Japan. McLaughlin will join a three person Department of Energy team in Japan to exchange information with Japanese officials dealing with the criticality incident at the Tokaimura uranium processing facility that occurred Sept. 30.
McLaughlin will leave for Japan after a stop in Washington, D.C., this week. He will be joined by Frank McCoy, deputy manager of the DOE Savannah River Operations Office and Leroy Lewis, a chemist at Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.
President Clinton extended an offer of help to the government of Japan right after the incident," said McLaughlin. "They have graciously accepted the offer, so we will go there and share information with them, with the hope of learning from this and preventing it from happening again in any country."
During the visit, the team plans to meet with their counterparts at the Japan Scientific and Technology Agency in Tokyo and will likely travel to Tokaimura to share information with the Japan Atomic Energy Institute and the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Organization. At this time, they are not expected to go to the site of the criticality accident.
McLaughlin received his doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Arizona and has 30 years of experience at the Laboratory, 20 years in nuclear criticality safety and 10 in reactor experimentation, design and accident analysis.
As chairman of an American National Standards sub-committee, he heads the group responsible for the generation of all nuclear criticality safety-related U.S. consensus standards. These standards form the basis for criticality safety regulations within the DOE and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
--Kevin Roark
Walking
Incentive mileage due Tuesday
Laboratory employees and subcontract personnel participating in this year's Walking Incentive Month program should submit mileage forms to their organization's coordinator by next Tuesday.
More than 1,000 employees and contractors have participated in the16th annual program designed to encourage walking as part of a regular exercise and physical fitness program, said walking incentive coordinator Gail Fox of the Wellness Center (ESH-2).
The theme of this year's event was "Walkabout." There were categories for novice and advanced walkers, and the Wellness Center hosted a series of special walks.
Registered walkers should turn in their accumulated mileage to coordinators next week. Fox said coordinators can submit the Coordinator's Group Summary sheet to the Wellness Center by fax, 5-6140, or to the Wellness Center at Mail Stop P955.
Fox said coordinators also can scan in the group summary sheet and send it to Fox at gfox@lanl.gov by e-mail. "Submission of the summary sheet is important so that we can verify numbers when people order sweatshirts and T-shirts," said Fox.
Walkers who only want to receive a water bottle may order it on line; they are free, but an order form has to be submitted, said Fox. T-shirts for $5 and sweatshirts for $9 will be available beginning Oct. 22, she added, but walkers also need to complete an order form and enclose a check for the co-payment to the Wellness Center with the Shirt Award Request Form.
Request forms should be in coordinator's packets, said Fox, but, they also can be found on the walkabout section of the Wellness Center Home Page online at: http://drambuie.lanl.gov/~wellness/wm99/awardform.htm.
More information about this year's Walking Incentive program can be found at http://drambuie.lanl.gov/~wellness/wm99/index.html online.
--Steve Sandoval
Badge access status available online
Employees with a token card (for example, SecureID card or CryptoCard) can now determine their badge access status from the Web. This can be particularly useful if you find your access denied when you attempt to use your badge to go into a security area.
If you do not have a token card or do not have one with you at the time your access is denied, you can contact your group office, which should have the appropriate authority to check your access status for you.
The new status check can be found by going online to http://eiprod.lanl.gov/ and selecting "Badge Access Information." If you are being denied access for a specific reason and do not know how to correct the situation, please consult the troubleshooting tips at http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/s/s6/pdfs/TST.pdf (Adobe Acrobat required), which also has been posted at all badge readers into security areas. Also, consult the Badge Office's relevant Web page at http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/s/s6/Trouble.htm for a complete troubleshooting checklist of potential badge reader problems.
The Badge Office encourages all badgeholders who have a token card to try the new report, even if they are not experiencing a problem; it is fast and simple and may allow employees to avoid having to make an unnecessary trip to the Badge Office (the Badge Office will not give out access status data over the telephone).
Nominations sought for Fellows Prize for Outstanding Research in Science or Engineering
Policy: To reward outstanding research performed at the Laboratory that was published within the last 10 years and that has had a significant impact on its discipline or program.
Purpose: To recognize and stimulate high-quality investigations in science or engineering by Laboratory staff members and to encourage publication in appropriate journals, books or reports.
Eligibility: Nominees must be full-time employees of the Laboratory at the time of nomination. All staff members of the Laboratory are eligible, but Fellows and postdoctoral researchers are not eligible. The work may be classified or unclassified.
Prize Nomination: Nominations should be submitted to the coordinator or deputy coordinator of the Los Alamos Fellows, and statements of justification (two pages or less) and letters of support (not exceeding five) from leaders in the field, both internal and external, are desirable. All supporting material -- which should include the publications on which the nomination is based -- should focus strongly on that particular research and the contributions of the investigators. Nomination packages should be simple and brief.
Award Review Procedure: A review committee selected from the Fellows will be appointed by the coordinator of the Los Alamos Fellows. The committee will make the prize selections.
Number of Awards: The number of prizes in any given year will not exceed three.
Amount of Awards: The prize will carry a maximum award of $3,000 for each individual. An appropriate certificate will commemorate the award.
Granting the Prize: The Director will present the prize at a formal colloquium, during which the recipients will describe their research.
Nominations should be received on or before Nov. 1 by either J.C. Solem, coordinator of Laboratory Fellows, T-DO, Mail Stop B210, 7-3856; or by M.B. Johnson, deputy coordinator of Laboratory Fellows, P-25, Mail Stop H846, 7-6942.
Former SLAC deputy director presents Director's Colloquium
Theoretical physicist Sid Drell, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and former deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, spoke at a Director's Colloquium Friday. Before delivering his remarks, Drell, second from left, chats informally with Don Cobb, associate Laboratory director for threat reduction, left; and Bill Press, second from right, and Dick Burick, deputy Laboratory directors. Drell enumerated some accomplishments and challenges of the Stockpile Stewardship program, and said, "I have more confidence in the stockpile today than was possible five years ago, because of the knowledge we have gained about the aging of materials and our present computational capabilities." He said his major concern is the potential impact of the fallout from espionage allegations, and he fears the way the investigation, which "inappropriately focused on this Lab, was handled and sensationalized may do damage on the science front." Drell was twice interrupted with applause: once for decrying proposed restrictions on sensitive, unclassified, technical information and again when he called the planned polygraphing of nuclear scientists "an abomination." Photo by LeRoy N. Sanchez
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