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Infrared video of the test article shroud inside the pool fire enclosure.
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LLNL and Sandia National Laboratories recently successfully executed the second joint abnormal thermal environment (ATE-2) test for the W80-4 Life Extension Program (LEP). ATE-2 was a fast-heat, fully engulfing system-level fuel fire test, the first for LLNL in more than three decades.
artist redering of dry, low RH and high RH metal oxide
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Scientists at LLNL performed simulations using the Lab's supercomputer Ruby to uncover physical mechanisms that explain why humidity controls the rate of atmospheric corrosion of aluminum metal.
Image of red clover between rows of grapes
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In a new study in Nature Sustainability, an LLNL scientist and collaborators examined concurrent SOC and yield responses to cover cropping, including their direct connection.
photo of Lori Diachin
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LLNL’s Lori Diachin takes over as director of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, guiding the successful, multi-institutional high-performance computing effort through its final stages.
Photos of Morgan Lindback, Ethan Welch and Xiao Kin Lu have earned Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program awards to perform their doctoral dissertation research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Three graduate students have earned Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program awards to perform their doctoral dissertation research at LLNL.
Cover of  "Sharing the Benefits: How the Economics of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects in California Can Serve Communities, the Economy, and the Climate,”
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New report finds that carbon capture and storage in California can concurrently serve local communities, the environment and the economy
graphic of laser hitting NIF target
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Scientists have conducted laboratory experiments at LLNL that provide new insights on the complex process of pressure-driven ionization in giant planets and stars.
LLNL Informatics Group Leader Brian Van Essen (left) and Bronis R. de Supinski, Chief Technology Officer for Livermore Computing, stand by the new SambaNova artificial intelligence hardware in the Livermore Computing Center
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LLNL and SambaNova Systems have announced the addition of SambaNova’s spatial data flow accelerator into LLNL’s Livermore Computing Center, part of an effort to upgrade the Lab’s cognitive simulation (CogSim) program.
LLNL collecting carbonate mineral samples
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Carbonate minerals are formed when carbon dioxide reacts with magnesium and calcium-rich rocks. But where does that CO2 come from? If it comes from the atmosphere, this process at sufficient scale may be able to reliably draw down atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, according to new research by LLNL scientists.
researcher looking through a microscope
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The dangers of coastal erosion are an all-too-familiar reality for the modern residents of California’s iconic mountainous coastal communities. With a new tool, researchers are now bringing historical perspective to the topic of how to manage these disappearing coastlines.