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Three major approaches to durable carbon removal.  The figure shows the major carbon fluxes that must be accounted for when evaluating the net amount of carbon removal that can be attributed to a project.
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LLNL scientists and collaborators look into the state of evaluating the climate impact of CDR projects (also referred to as carbon accounting). 

This year's DOE Early Career Research Program recipients: top row from left: Ben Zhu, Jennifer Shusterman and Steven Blazewicz. Bottom row from left: Kostas Kravvaris, Shusen Liu, Kyle Wendt and Filippo Scotti.
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Seven LLNL scientists receive the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program (ERCP) award.

Femtosecond X-ray snapshot of shock-compressed zirconium.
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LLNL scientists and collaborators compress single crystal samples of the metal zirconium, yielding surprising results. 

LLNL’s Mohror honored with prestigious technical computing award
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LLNL's Kathryn Mohror wins the prestigious Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWLTC) Award.

Annie Kritcher, design physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been awarded the 2024 David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award by Fusion Power Associates for her role as lead designer and team lead of the first experiment to achieve fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
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LLNL design physicist receives the 2024 David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award for significant technical achievements and potential to become an influential leader in the fusion community.

Frank Miller has been awarded Livermore’s 2024 John S. Foster Medal.
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LLNL Director Kim Budil announces that the 2024 John S. Foster, Jr. Medal is awarded to Franklin Miller, a principal at The Scowcroft Group. 

Vice President Sang Yup Lee from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Glenn Fox, principal associate director at LLNL, signed a memorandum of understanding in June 2024, to collaborate on basic science research regarding hydrogen and other carbon-neutral technologies.
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LLNL leaders and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) sign a memorandum of understanding to expand collaborations related to hydrogen and other low-carbon energy technology.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers, including (from left) Saptarshi Mukherjee, Johanna Vandenbrande and Ethan Rosenberg, have introduced an innovative new approach to 3D printing using microwave energy to cure materials, opening the door to a broader range of materials than ever before.
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LLNL researchers introduce an innovative new approach to 3D printing using microwave energy to cure materials, opening the door to a broader range of materials than ever before.

From left, Daniela Cusak, LLNL’s Karis McFarlane and Andy Nottingham take soil samples from a rainforest.
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LLNL scientists and colleagues find that warming and drying of tropical forest soils may increase soil carbon vulnerability, by increasing degradation of older carbon.

Shown is the SpaceX Transporter-11 stack with the Deep Purple payload (circled in red) attached to the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-R satellite.
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The Deep Purple telescope developed by LLNL researchers is now operational in space.