During her ongoing travel overseas this week, Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, visited the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan: a former nuclear test site for the Soviet Union.
The NNSA shared a few photos from the visit on Twitter.
John Clauser, a physicist who spent time at Department of Energy national laboratories, shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics with two other people, the Stockholm, Sweden-based Nobel Foundation announced this week.
Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger shared the prize for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science,” the foundation wrote on its website. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the labs where Clauser worked, posted a photo of a young Clauser online after the Foundation’s announcement.
Scott Rayder, former chief of staff for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will join Leidos, Reston, Va., to lead a division that includes the company’s business, and prospective business, with the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Rayder was chief of staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the main U.S. federal weather agency, from 2001 to 2008, during the George W. Bush Administration. He will be Leidos’ vice president and division manager for climate, energy and environment, the company wrote in a press release. Leidos is the former Science Applications International Corporation and includes the former Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions.
