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Sandia Teaches Nuclear Safety Course
News Article, July 10, 2015 • Measures for keeping nuclear materials out of the wrong hands can be as straightforward as a stout post beam designed to stop massive, speeding trucks in their tire tracks—or they can be as complex as fencing draped with a web of sensors so acute they can differentiate the movements of...

Sandia’s Z Machine Helps Solve Saturn’s Two-Billion-Year Age Gap
News Article, July 7, 2015 • Planets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some additional energy source. The unexplained heat has caused a two-billion-year discrepancy for computer models estimating Saturn’s age. “Models that correctly predict Jupiter to be 4.5 billion years old find Saturn...