Touch ‘Em All: NNSA Administrator Rounds Out Tour of Nuclear Security Enterprise
With visits this week to the Kansas City National Security Complex in Missouri and a pair of naval nuclear sites in New York, Lisa Gordon Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrapped up a four-mouth tour of the civilian agency’s main nuclear weapons sites.
Gordon-Hagerty kicked off the well-advertised tour in July with a visit to the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.
Not to say the administrator won’t visit other nuclear-weapons sites, but a spokesperson for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said the circuit just completed ticks off all eight of the agency’s major labs, plants and sites.
“No plan to visit Sandia KTF,” the spokesperson said, referring to a rocket-launching facility in Hawaii, the Kauai Test Facility, operated by Sandia National Laboratories.
Six Los Alamos Physicists Become Fellows of American Physical Society
Half a dozen scientists for Los Alamos National Laboratory were elected as 2020 fellows of the American Physical Society for what the peer group deems significant contributions to their fields, the lab said in a press release.
Awardees from the nuclear weapons lab are:
- Luis Chacon
- Andrea Favalli
- Ralph Menikoff
- Andrea Palounek
- Nikolai Sinitsyn
- Blas Uberuaga
Los Alamos Exec Names Fellow for American Nuclear Society
Evelyn Mullen, chief operating officer for Global Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory was named as a fellow of the American Nuclear Society professional group, the lab said in a press release.
Mullen joined the lab in 1992.
The American Nuclear Society is set to hold its annual Winter Meeting online starting Nov. 16.