Today's News

 Power has been restored in the North Mesa neighborhood of Los Alamos, according to the Department of Utilities.

Earlier, there were reports of outages on North Mesa and the Alamo areas.

The initial report came in around 1:45 p.m. that power was out on North Mesa in the San Ildefonso and Alamo areas as crews backfed power to the area. At 3:30 p.m., a report from DPU said that power was restored in those areas. But 15 minutes later, it was reported power was still out in San Ildefonso area of North Mesa.

DPU said an underground fault caused portion of North Mesa to lose power.

The Boy Scouts of America have released nearly a decade of confidential files never before made public. The Scouts kept track of suspected pedophiles they banned from their ranks, but kept the list secret until now.

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method to use cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, which were heavily damaged in March 2011 by a tsunami that followed a great earthquake.

In a paper in Physical Review Letters, researchers compared two methods for using cosmic-ray radiography to gather images of nuclear material within the core of a reactor similar to Fukushima Daiichi Reactor No. 1. The team found that Los Alamos’ scattering method for cosmic ray radiography was far superior to the traditional transmission method for capturing high-resolution image data of potentially damaged nuclear material.

“Within weeks of the disastrous 2011 tsunami, Los Alamos’ Muon Radiography Team began investigating use of Los Alamos’ muon scattering method to determine whether it could be used to image the location of nuclear materials within the damaged reactors,” said Konstantin Borozdin of Los Alamos’ Subatomic Physics Group and lead author of the paper.