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Headshot of Laura Fornicola
Meet Laura Fornicola, who leads #NNSA engagements with our nuclear security partners in the United Kingdom, ensuring stability for our nation and our allies. Laura helped grow a two-person team into the Office of International Programs.
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Meet Katie Duncan, whose love for #WWII history led to her role at NNSA as a uranium expert supporting our nuclear stockpile, from the upcoming Uranium Processing Facility to reestablishing depleted uranium manufacturing.
The three principal components of Sandia's micro chem lab for gas-phase detection and analysis are small enough to fit easily inside a snow-pea pod. The left-most component is the surface acoustic wave sensor array, the lab's detection mechanism. The center one is a preconcentrator that absorbs or adsorbs chemical vapors. The right one that looks like a tiny CD is a miniature gas chromatograph column. Together they can collect, concentrate, and analyze a chemical sample weighing less than a single bacterium
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