Weapons Technology News

Posted December 13, 2001:

• Two New Methodologies Can Help Owners Improve Security Of Nation's Dams And Power Systems

Posted December 5, 2001:

• New Portable Device Senses Chemical Weapons

Posted November 6, 2001:

• Study: Tree Coring Seems To Be Quicker, Cheaper Method Of Measuring Radiation

Posted November 1, 2001:

• Sandia-Developed Formulation Among Products Selected To Help Rid U.S. Facilities Of Anthrax

Posted October 30, 2001:

• Using Radio Waves To Find Contraband

Posted October 26, 2001:

• Cutting The Cost Of Fall-Out From Chernobyl 15 Years After The World's Worst Nuclear Accident

Posted October 12, 2001:

• INEEL Researchers Clean Plutonium From Soil Using Carbon Dioxide

Posted August 23, 2001:

• New Scripps Monitoring Devices Set To Detect Clandestine Nuclear Weapons Testing; "Infrasound" Array Of Instruments Picks Up Meteor's Kiloton Blast Over The Pacific

Posted August 14, 2001:

• Physicists Challenge Reports Of Accelerated Decay Of Nuclear Excited State

Posted June 20, 2001:

• Nuclear Waste Disposal: A Safer Solution?

Posted June 6, 2001:

• Pit Viper Takes Bite Out Of Worker Radiation Exposures

Posted May 29, 2001:

• Chemists Spin Materials To Improve Magnetic Resonance Data

Posted April 12, 2001:

• Rutgers Physicists Tackle Plutonium Complexities
• Synthetic Clay Could Assist Radioactive Waste Cleanup

Posted March 27, 2001:

• Sandia To Release Enhanced Shock Wave Physics Software; Provides Greater Detail For Simulating A Projectile Penetration

Posted March 13, 2001:

• Geologists Learning Uranium Containment From Nature

Posted February 19, 2001:

• Former Soviet Biological Warfare Plants Still Pose Threat, Despite Transfer To Peaceful Research, Cornell Researcher Says

Posted January 3, 2001:

• Extremely Efficient Nuclear Fuel Could Take Man To Mars In Just Two Weeks

Posted December 28, 2000:

• New Fuel Improves Proliferation Resistance Of Research Reactors

Posted November 14, 2000:

• University of Michigan Expert Raises Concerns About Method For Assessing Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal Site

Posted October 26, 2000:

• Will You Be "Mine"? Physics Key To Detection

Posted September 13, 2000:

• Rad Hard: Microelectronic Devices Can Operate In Harsh Environments

Posted September 4, 2000:

• Zirconate Material Will Resist Radiation, Improve Safety Of Long-Term Plutonium Storage

Posted August 22, 2000:

• Health Physicist Says Nuclear Sub Design Minimizes Kursk's Risk Of Leaking Radiation

Posted August 7, 2000:

• Laboratory Researchers Demonstrate New Radiation-Tolerant Materials For Possible Nuclear Waste Storage

Posted June 28, 2000:

• Research To Give Authorities New Tool In Tracking Terrorists

Posted May 26, 2000:

• The Sound Of Deadly Danger: Researchers Combine Acoustic Waves With Radar To Detect Buried Land Mines

Posted February 8, 2000:

• Human Factors Experts At Sandia Take New Approach To Studying Human Failure In Engineered Systems

Posted February 7, 2000:

• Scientists: Bomb Survivor Studies Outdated As Basis For Radiation Protection Standards

Posted January 18, 2000:

• Radiating Relief: Researcher Combats Stubborn Arthritis With Neutrons

Posted December 6, 1999:

• New Details On Japan Nuclear Accident

Posted October 18, 1999:

• With Spotlight On Test Ban Treaty, Cornell Professor Describes How Computer Model Manages Nation's Nuclear Stockpile

Posted September 21, 1999:

• Making Industrial Isotopes Cheaper And With Less Pollution

Posted August 13, 1999:

• World's Top Bomb Disablers Practice Their Craft This Week At "Operation Riverside"

Posted August 12, 1999:

• American And Russian Nuclear Labs Work With Prosthetics Company To Develop Artificial Knee For Landmine Victims

Posted July 7, 1999:

• Z Machine Pushed To New Limits To Test Radiation Effects

Posted July 6, 1999:

• Study Looks To Nuclear Energy As Micro-Scale Fuel

Posted June 30, 1999:

• Nuclear Weapon Sensors, Marine Greenhouse, Recycling Auto Parts, And "Shocking" Sludge -- News Tips From Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Posted June 17, 1999:

• Sandia Researchers Push Z Machine To New Limits To Test Radiation Effects

Posted April 9, 1999:

• Mixing Radiation, Minerals, Toxic Waste Could Be Cleanup Boon -- Or Kaboom

Posted March 3, 1999:

• Sandia Decontamination Foam May Be Tomorrow's Best First Response In A Chem-Bio Attack

Posted January 27, 1999:

• Architecture Program Aims To Make Buildings More Resistant To Terrorism And Catastrophes

Posted December 3, 1998:

• New Drugs, Diagnostic Tests, And Software Needed To Prepare U.S. Cities For Chemical, Biological Terrorist Attacks
• You Could Even Say It Glows -- New Way To Detect Chemical Weapons

Posted October 31, 1998:

• New Technology Being Developed To Detect Land Mines And Other TNT Ordnance

Posted October 16, 1998:

• Seeing Through Steel: New Technology Identifies Chemical Weapons

Posted October 12, 1998:

• New Research Needed To Improve Detection, Identification Techniques For Finding Pipe Bombs, Catching Bomb Makers

Posted July 28, 1998:

• Breakthrough Systems To Detect Nuclear Explosions Worldwide

Posted July 7, 1998:

• Penn State-Led Team Develops New, Improved Land Mine Detector

Posted June 22, 1998:

• Warfare Agent Mass Spectrometer Being Built At ORNL

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