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Laser Days of Summer
The summer research practicum is the defining experience of the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship. Stewardship Science joined two doctoral candidates thrust into the collaborative culture of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Ignition Facility.
Calculating the Unknown
Uncertainty quantification, or UQ, attempts to gauge the effects of what we don’t know. A team at Sandia National Laboratories is pushing the frontiers of UQ in simulations that ensure a reliable nuclear stockpile.
Working for Mesoscale
Little is known about materials at the mesoscale, that middle ground between atomic and bulk. Scientists hope to address that knowledge gap with an advanced X-ray source and other instruments that are part of a proposed experimental facility known as MaRIE at Los Alamos National Laboratory.