NNSA Monthly News [September 2004]   [open pdf - 269KB]

"In this issue: NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] Researchers Capture Twelve Awards for Top Industrial Innovations; Spent Nuclear Fuel Returned to the United States from Germany; Savannah River Tritium Facility Wins Secretary's Project Management Award; Pantex Reaches Plutonium Pit Repackaging Milestone; NNSA Managers Win Award for Outstanding Work; Mercury MESSENGER [MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging] Carriers Livermore Technology; There's a KCP [Kansas City Plant] Safety Professional of the Year (SPY) in Town; U.S., Russian Lab Directors Advocate Global Expansion of New Nuclear Energy Technologies; Sandia Labs Supercomputer to be World's Fastest; Livermore 'Got Science?' Extravaganza Huge Success; Los Alamos Helps Map the Evolution of a Virus; Unique Sandia Labs Facility Celebrates Ten Years of Making the World a Safer Place; and Livermore Researchers Develop Hybrid Fuel Tank."