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News Article, April 28, 2022 • It may not be common knowledge within Sandia that the Labs are home to the Plasma Research Facility, but those who study plasma around the nation and the world are not only acutely aware, they are also coming in great numbers to perform experiments and work with the experts. “There are...
From left, Malik Tahiyat, from University of South Carolina, and Sandia scientists Dirk van den Bekerom, Erxiong Huang, and Jonathan Frank are all performing experiments in the Plasma Research Facility. Photo by Angie Zhang

Climate security focus of workshop series with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

News Article, May 2, 2022 • More than 30 people from Sandia and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign participated in a workshop on Feb. 11 focused on climate-modeling research. The workshop was the fourth in a yearlong series centered on climate security topics and designed to create interactions between Sandia researchers and university faculty and students....
An illustration depicting an analysis of attributed sources and impacts of climate change

Program in fusion energy attracted interns’ eyes

News Article, December 21, 2021 • A bold plan paid off this past summer when Sandia National Laboratories staff members LaRico Treadwell and Khalid Hattar combined their passions for increasing inclusion of people of color with developing materials to eventually derive energy from nuclear fusion. Standing to benefit from the pilot project were three undergraduate interns...
Eryal Reinhart, a summer intern at Sandia National Laboratories, is considering switching her major from engineering to materials science. (Photo courtesy of Eryal Reinhart)

Sandia to Host Discussion of Progress in Fusion Energy

News Article, March 14, 2022 • What is fusion energy? Why are we hearing more about it recently? Could fusion energy change the world? Sandia invites the public to learn more about these and other questions related to fusion energy startups and technological innovations on March 29, 2022, 10-11:00 a.m. MDT on Microsoft Teams. This virtual...
PHOTO: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a collaborative nuclear fusion research and engineering project aiming to build the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, also known as a tokamak, in southern France. CREDIT: ITER Organization