Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Director Emeritus George Miller has been named the 2021 recipient of the John S. Foster Medal for his contributions to U.S. national security.
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Students of nuclear security have a problem. Here’s how to help them.
Sandia National Laboratories is teaming up with the University of New Mexico to create a new approach to teaching nuclear security.
LLNL welcomes “Ruby” supercomputer for national nuclear security mission & COVID-19 research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), along with partners Intel, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks, have deployed “Ruby,” a high performance computing (HPC) cluster that will perform functions for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and support the Laboratory’s COVID-19 research.

Livermore, university researchers describe how antineutrino detectors could aid nuclear nonproliferation efforts
A tiny, invisible particle, antineutrinos, could offer help for a big problem – the threat of nuclear proliferation. With advances, researchers are moving closer to the day when they can deploy technology to remotely monitor these particles from nuclear power plants at long distances.