It is Sandia's task to engineer a storage device that solves the heat problem.
In the case of Sandia, the right-sized reactors would generate their own fuel as they operate.
FORBES: After Fukushima, U.S. Seeks to Advance Small Nuclear Reactors
The system could also be used to monitor fallout from accidents at nuclear reactors, Sandia officials said.
Sandia National Laboratories is working on a bacteria-killing agent to clean contaminated offices.
Sandia robotics engineers have designed the Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot, which finds dangers and can provide relief to trapped miners.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed radiation-detection pods that can monitor airborne radiation using drones, without endangering human flight crews.
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are exploring the idea of using concentrated solar energy to turn CO2 into fuel.
According to the Sandia National Laboratory, these smaller reactors would be factory built and mass-assembled, with potential production of 50 a year.
FORBES: After Fukushima, U.S. Seeks to Advance Small Nuclear Reactors
Prompted in part by concerns raised by the SEC and FBI, the Labor Department hired Sandia National Laboratories to audit its data-release system.
With help from Sandia National Laboratories, Goodyear developed its "Triple Tred" feature to address what Goodyear discovered was drivers' biggest fear: changing weather conditions.
In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
FORBES: One American's Struggle to Save New York City from Cyber Saboteurs
As a onetime engineer for Sandia, he built microelectronic devices one-fourth the width of a human hair that were used to spy on the Kremlin.
Sandia was born near Albuquerque soon after the Second World War and became our premier facility for developing the non-nuclear components of our nuclear weapons program.
As for Mr. Laia he spent 11 years at Sandia National Labs, and a number of years in semiconductor capital equipment companies including Novellus and KLA-Tencor.
Lab staff are bristling at such tough talk, which they see as unfair pointing to serious and less-reported security lapses at the Lawrence Livermore and Sandia laboratories.
ECONOMIST: Why can't researchers at Los Alamos keep a secret?
Those pods performed well at a demonstration last year at the Grand Forks Air Force Base, according to a Sandia press release penned by Singer.
Sandia flew him to Battelle labs in Columbus, Ohio, where he proved in front of the then reigning world sol-gel expert that his paper creation worked in real life.
"We focused a lot on usability and copied a lot of gamer interfaces so that users can pick it up pretty quickly, " said Sandia engineer Justin Garretson, the lead software developer.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
In 2004, Cray anticipates a large share of its growth to come from sales of its new Red Storm supercomputer system, developed over the last 18 months with Sandia National Laboratories.
Houston's Compaq is developing the supercomputing technology in collaboration with genetic database company Celera Genomics (nyse: CRA - news - people) and the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs.
Albuquerque, a hot spot for the solar manufacturing industry and home to the Sandia National Laboratories, managed by Lockheed Martin, could see annual economic growth of nearly 4% during the same period.
Sequoia is dedicated to NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program for stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, a joint effort from LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
ENGADGET: NNSA Sequoia supercomputer takes worlds fastest title, prevents nuclear testing
In 2002, a test by Sandia labs in the US found that a similar dowsing rod device, called the Mole detector, did not work and performed "no better than a random selection process".
"In particular, these simulations will enable us to understand the complexities associated with strong coupling between fuel chemistry and turbulence at low preignition temperatures, " noted team member Jacqueline Chen of Sandia National Laboratories.
ENGADGET: Cray's Jaguar supercomputer upgraded with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, renamed Titan
Four engineers borrowed mortars from the Sandia Explosives Lab and blew them up with a borrowed 20-kilowatt off-the-shelf laser from the Air Force Research Laboratory just hours after 80-mile-an-hour desert winds whipped through.
Last month, in conjunction with Shawn-Yu Lin of the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the group showed that photonic crystals can guide light on a far smaller scale than was previously possible.
To speed rescue efforts, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a robot that would eliminate some of the unknowns of mine rescue operations and arm first responders with the most valuable tool: information.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
"We have designed this robot to go in ahead of its handlers, to assess the situation and potential hazards and allow operations to move more quickly, " said Jon Salton, Sandia engineer and project manager.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
D. from Rutgers University in ceramic science and engineering, Brinker loaded up his hot rod BMW coupe and headed west to a staff appointment at Sandia National Labs, the engineering sister of Los Alamos.
One of the largest employers was Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy unit established in 1949 to develop nuclear weapons and now also working on solutions to nonmilitary problems in energy, computing and geologic sciences.
应用推荐