Environmental Update Sandia Investigators Make Progress in Search for Possible Environmental Restoration Sites Three scenes from the Labs' past: A building somewhere in the Coyote Canyon test area needs sanitary facilities. A hole is dug and a septic tank put in. A facility in Tech Area 3 needs a nearby source offuel oil. An underground storage tank is UNDERGROUND STOR• installed. AGE TANKS, removed this Scrap metal pieces or solvents used for clean• summer, are inspected by ing circuit boards aren't needed any more, so Art Rodriguez (7721 ). The they're buried in a pit where it appears the mate• locations where a number rial won't cause any problem. of aging underground tanks From this sort of routine activity during were removed are on San• Sandia's 40-plus years of operation- conducted dia's list of sites to be as• within the bounds of environmental protection sessed and dealt with as practices generally accepted at the time- have part of the environmental come about 190 environmental restoration sites restoration program.

"We don't see anything ... that's an imminent danger to anyone." now being dealt with by Environmental Programs Dept. 7720. As a part of DOE's increased commit• sites are being drawn up, and the detailed assess• mean that hazardous materials were definitely re• ment to environment, safety, and health, and con• ments will be made in the next months and years. leased to the environment. Many sites are listed be• tinuing work that has gone on for more than six cause (often scanty) records of past use, or the years, people in this department are investigating No 'Emergency' Sites at Sandia memory of someone being interviewed about past sites where something that happened in the past One of the Labs' technical areas, Tech Area 2, activities, give reason to believe that hazardous might now threaten the environment. contains the only sites classified as "time criti• materials might have been there. • Plans for assessing the actual condition of the cal" for finding out what's going on under• "Let me emphasize that this is a list of poten• ground and determining whether there is in fact a tially contaminated sites," says Gordon Smith, How to Get More Information threat to the environment. (See "Sandia's Top Manager of Department 7720. "As an illustration, About Environmental Issues Priority," page six.) if we're interviewing people and someone says All other Sandia sites are in a lower-priority, something like, 'Well, I'm pretty sure that 20 Wondering about environmental matters at less-urgent DOE category. No Sandia site is in years ago I saw somebody drive a truck over there Sandia? Employees are urged to ask questions DOE's most urgent "emergency" category. and dump something,' that's enough to say it's a about remediation of environmental restora• A site's inclusion on the list of 190 doesn't (Continued on Page Four) - tion sites, as well as any other environmental issue. Call any number listed under Commu• nity Relations Div. 3163, and someone there will either have the answers or find them. Because the environment is currently a much-discussed topic, employees may wish to keep this issue and refer to the articles in it when responding to questions from family or friends. The LAB NEWS will publish other environmental restoration updates as developments warrant.

Sandians Support 'Shoes for Kids' As in past years, Sandians who are interested in helping others less fortu• nate are being given an opportunity to buy a pair of warm shoes for a child. Called the "Shoes for Kids Campaign," the project seeks donations to pur• chase a pair of boots or shoes at lower-than-normal cost. Youngsters are chosen based on need by their school principals and will be fitted and provided with new footwear this month at Kinney Shoes. According to Mary Ellen Gallegos, principal of Eugene Field Elementary School, these shoes may be the only ones these children have to wear all year. The cost of a pair of shoes this year is $25. Donors may write checks to "Shoes for Kids" and send them to Liz Scott-Patterson (5501), Bldg. 892, Rm. 100. Liz asks that donations be made as soon as possible. Contributions received later than Dec. 18 will go into a fund for next year. Participation in the program can be both heartwarming and sobering, notes Liz. Children often write thank-you notes relating that the shoes they receive are the nicest shoes they've ever had and that they help them run faster and keep - warm when it's cold outside. One year, Liz helped fit a little girl who asked lots of questions about the Sandia scientists who paid for her shoes and made Liz promise to buy her an• other pair of shoes the following year. Liz later learned from the school princi• pal that the youngster lived with her addict mother in a local "crack house." LAURENCE BROWN (left, 2471) and Dean Pershall (3511) discuss plans for Sandians have participated in the Shoes for Kids Campaign for more the Dec. 7 meeting of the New Mexico Professional AISES (American Indian than 30 years, says Liz. Last year, 180 youngsters- the largest group so Science and Engineering Society) chapter, which recently became the first far - were fitted with new shoes through the program. • professional chapter recognized by the national AISES organization. About 25 professionals from Sandia, DOE, and other area organizations founded the local group. Laurence is chapter vice president. AISES seeks to increase the Venky, Ev Beckner to Leave Labs; number of American Indian scientists and engineers and to develop techno• logically informed leaders within the Indian community. Anyone sharing that Fleury from AT&T Will Be VP-1 000 - goal may join; associate membership is available to non-Indians and to Ameri• can Indians who are not scientists or engineers. For more information about See Pages Seven and Eight the group or upcoming meetings, call Dean on 5-9914 or Laurence on 4-71 03. Carlson Succeeds Chernoff · This & That Carlson Named

1QLzQ - Patricia Newman (5028) wants to know: "Are there any other KAO Manager second-generation 20-year Sandia veterans around?" When she celebrated Kathleen Carlson has been named area her 20th service anniversary with Sandia in March, she began wearing the manager of DOE Albuquerque's Kirtland Area 20th-anniversary pin that her pop, John Tolmie (dec.), received from the Office (KAO). She succeeds Al Chernoff, who Labs in 1970. has become project manager for the Uranium * * * Mill Tailings Re• Innovative Cleanup Effort - Fifteen years ago, workers installing medial Action Proj• a grounding rod for a light pole at Sandia, Livermore caused a 60,000- ect (UMTRA). gal. diesel oil leak when they accidentally punctured an underground Carlson is now line. When the leak was discovered about two weeks later, part of the responsible for ad• fuel was removed from the trench, but most remained in the ground. ministering DOE's Back then it was pretty common just to leave such sites alone, contract with San• thinking they would do very little or no harm, but environmental dia, the Inhalation protection and cleanup movements today are changing the way we all do Toxicology Re• things, and some innovative solutions are being pursued. That's the case search Institute, at this Livermore site, where naturally occurring bacteria in the soil J'; and Ross Avia- will be "encouraged" to consume the hydrocarbons still in the soil - ,. tion. Her previous bioremediation, it's called. KATHLEEN CARLSON position was with You can read more about this technology in a sidebar (on page DOE's Waste Op• four) that goes along with other articles about the status of Sandia's erations Branch in the Waste Management and environmental restoration program (main story begins on page one). All Operation Surety Division. is not good news - the Labs obviously has some genuine environmental She joined DOE in 1975 with an MS in health concerns - but I hope the stories will put our environmental concerns physics from the University of Minnesota, working and problems into the proper context and maybe even help lay to rest in ES&H and Waste Management programs in some unfounded fears. Idaho Falls, Idaho. In 1980, she became program * * * manager for Transportation Research and Develop• Wastewater Update Speaking of environmental updates, see page ment in DOE/AL's Waste Management Program. nine for a piece written originally for the Albuquerque Journal by VP She has also been W84 and W89 program engineer Glen Cheney (7000) about the low-level radioactive wastewater disposal and cruise missile program manager while in the issue. I think Glen's summary of the problem is something that all Weapons Program Division, as well as Deputy Sandians will find worth reading. Manager for the UMTRA project. * * * Carlson was honored as DOE/AL's FY90 Favorite Old Photos Needed -As space allows, we publish "favorite "Boss of the Year." She is a member of the old photos" and captions provided by Sandians. For the first time that I New Mexico Network for Women in Science and can remember, we don't have a one waiting to be published. A general Engineering. guideline: Photos with the best chance of being published are ones that aren't simply old, but that also include some action, show some historical perspective, emphasize the unusual, or illustrate contrast Earnings Factors between the times. If you have an old photo that you'd like us to consider, bring it by the LAB NEWS office in Bldg. 814, Rm 1. We can September 1991 probably tell you right away if it's a good candidate. In Livermore, see Barry Schrader in Bldg. 911, Rm. 134. Long-Term Savings Plan for Earnings * * * Management Employees (LTSPME) Factors From Across the Big Pond - Assistant Editor Charles Shirley found this one in a recent issue of New Scientist (published in London): AT&T Shares .9697 "Computerspeak continues its effortless spread. Here's one computer Government Obligations 1.0122 expert replying on a phone-in programme to a complaint about the time Equity Portfolio .9840 that it took to get through on the telephone to the expert's computer Guaranteed Interest Fund 1.0071 company: 'We are continually increasing our decreasing of wait time.' " South Africa Restricted Fund .9908 * * * Words Is Hard to Use Proper - Spotted on the packaging for a new Long-Term Savings and board game: a blurb hyping it as a "classic new" game. •LP Security Plan (LTSSP) AT&T Shares .9698 Guaranteed Interest Fund 1.0071 South Africa Restricted Fund .9905 Employee Death Equity Portfolio .9837 Employer Stock Fund .9697 Evelyn Miller of Production Administration Sec. 3121-1 died Nov. 11 after a long illness. She Published Fortnightly on Fridays was 54 years old. SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES Evelyn had been Welcome An Equal Opportunity Employer at the Labs since 1964. Albuquerque - Maureen Barrett (21-1), ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO 87185-5800 She is survived Peggy Butler (21-1), Todd Cu1p (7723), Deborah LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA 94550 by her husband Dominguez (3742), Maxine Gallegos (21-1), TONOPAH, NEVADA Warren (6316), one Sharon Ortiz (21-1), James Riley (3727), NEVADA TEST SITE Jacquelyn Von Lob (21-1); AMARILLO, TEXAS daughter, and two Other New Mexico• Paula Schoeneman (21-1 ). Sandia National Laboratories, a prime contractor sons (including to the US Department of Energy, is operated by Larry Carrillo of Elsewhere: Massachusetts- Elsa Glassman Sandia Corporation, a subsidiary of American Division 9331 ). (3524). Telephone and Telegraph Co. The family has LARRY PERRINE, Editor (505/844-1053) announced that a CHARLES SHIRLEY, Assistant Editor (844-5199) memorial fund has Congratulations LINDA DORAN, Writer (844-6210) been established in JOHN GERMAN, Writer (844-7842) EVELYN MILLER To Pam and Randy (2814) Lober, a daughter, RANDY MONTOYA, Head Photographer (844-5605) Evelyn's name at Kara Lynn, Oct. 17. MARK POULSEN, Photographer and the Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union. The Production Coordinator (844-5605) To Theresa (1842) and Gary (1822) Zender, JANET CARPENTER, Editorial Assistant (844-7841) fund will be used to sponsor research by the United a son, Michael Aaron, Oct. 26. JUANITA MARTI NEZ, Assistant (844-7841) Scleroderma Foundation. To Patti and Victor (9343) Harper-Sla• LAB NEWS FAX, (505/844-0645) boszewicz, a son, Charles Ray, Nov. 3. BARRY SCHRADER, Uvermore Reporter (510/294-2447; FTS 234-2447) To Vanessa Watkins (9216) and Byron Miles, married in Hempstead, Tex., Oct. 19. 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Plowing Ahead Sandia Transfers Welding Technology To Tractor Builder John Deere The list of capabilities at Sandia encompasses such diverse areas as solar energy, weapon design, hazardous waste cleanup, arms verification, JOHN DEERE representa• robotics, and all kinds of testing. Private enterprises tive David Trees (left) and that have benefited from the Labs' expertise range Sandians Tony DeSousa from foam manufacturers to solar energy firms. (center) and Tony Bentley Now a new industry can be added to the list of (both 8484) examine a those that are benefiting from decades of work in welded part. Sandia is weapons and energy research - agriculture, or working with the farm more specifically, the manufacture of durable, reli• equipment company to able tractor parts. transfer welding feedback Through a joint effort with John Deere, a technology that monitors builder of agricultural, industrial, and consumer and then automatically ad• products, Sandia is providing welding expertise to justs welding processes improve the production of heavy-duty compo• while such parts are being nents. The result: John Deere is investigating the manufactured. advantages of improving critical weld joints with a cost-saving feedback system designed at Sandia, Livermore.

Outgrowth of Weapon Program spection during, not after the welding, to make it tering the automated welding feedback system for The cooperative venture is part of an ongoing automatic." carbon steel parts, and is currently learning what technology transfer program at Sandia intended to David Trees, from the John Deere Technical needs to be done to make the system work for make manufacturing technologies available to the Center in Moline, lllinois, realized that the Sandia GMA welding. GMA welding is slightly more private sector- technologies that until recently technology might be used in the company's manu• complicated to control than GTA. have been used primarily for weapon development facture of tractors. To test this idea, he brought two In arc welding, an electric current passes be• and design. Sandia also benefits from the exchange components, including a mockup of a weld joint, tween an electrode and a part, which melts the part of knowledge, because it expands the Labs' under• to Sandia, Livermore, to see what could be done and allows it to join with another part. As in all standing of other uses of technology and often has with them. weld joints, the depth to which the weld penetrates applications for advanced research and develop• the original metal is critical. A weld joint must be ment at the Labs. They Gotta Be Tough strong enough to withstand specific pressures, yet John Deere learned of the Sandia feedback Parts for transmissions are critical, notes Tony, it must not be so extensive that it weakens the sur• .. system when a company representative attended and have higher quality requirements than many rounding metal. the annual convention of the American Welding other parts. They must transmit full horsepower Sandia first automated its arc welding process Society (AWS) last April in Detroit. ·At the con• from the engine to the wheels, yet endure heavy 10 years ago using a technique developed by Scot vention, Sandia researcher Tony Bentley (8484) shock loads in the process. They also must be of Marburger (8484). Scot's feedback control system gave a presentation about his Feedback Control exceptional quality, and distortion caused by weld• uses a fiber-optic cable to measure the amount of System for Arc Welding, which he has been refm• ing must be predictable. John Deere would like to light emitted by the glowing metal (the hot part be• ing for the past four years. Tony is one member of apply the feedback system to other parts as well. ing welded). The amount of light, in tum, is an in• a team developing a system tailored especially to But there are some differences between dicator of weld penetration - how much metal is the needs of John Deere and possibly useful for Sandia's welding feedback system and the one being melted. In other words, the amount of light is other Sandia projects. Other members of that team sought by John Deere. Sandia's welded parts are proportional to the amount of hot metal. are Lee Bertram (8243), Bill Winters (8245), Beth primarily made of stainless steel; John Deere's The amount of light measured by the sensor Fuchs (8243), Tony DeSousa (8484), Ed Walsh are of various carbon steels: For the system to be goes into a computer, which feeds information (8483), Dean Williams (8243), Leonard Napoli• used by John Deere, it has to work with that com• back to the welding machine, which then adjusts tano (8432), Edward McKelvey (8432), and Scot pany's materials. Also, Tony's controller was de• the heat. Marburger (~484 ). signed for the gas tungsten arc (GTA) welding "What this leads to is a quality control mecha• One of Sandia's goals for the feedback system process, which is used extensively throughout the nism," notes Tony. "For the desired penetration, is to eliminate the need to destroy welded parts to weapons complex, but John Deere would like to how much light will be emitted?" test for welding quality, by bending them, bursting apply the system to the gas metal arc (GMA) The heated metal in a stainless steel weld is them, or cutting them open. Another goal is to re• welding process. more localized than in a carbon steel weld, mean• duce the need for non-destructive testing, such as After a few months of cooperative research ing the amount of light emitted is more directly radiography and ultrasonics testing. with John Deere, the Sandia team succeeded in al- proportional to the penetration in the case of stain• "All of these tests are expensive and time• less steel. The heat is more diffuse in carbon steel, consuming," says Tony Bentley. "Some of the causing more light to be emitted elsewhere, such as weapon parts Sandia tests cost thousands of dollars on the back side of the weld. apiece. So what we're trying to do is eliminate To accommodate this difference in the proper• post-weld inspection by doing the inspection while ties of the two metals, Sandia researchers modi• we're making the part. That's our goal- to do in- fied their system to make measurements of visible as well as infrared light to determine the amount of penetration in a weld. They presented the results of their research in November at a John Deere Tech• TAKING PART IN a recent nical Conference in lllinois. Sandia Secretarial Semi• Though researchers and engine.ers have been nar at Livermore are (from trying for years to incorporate feedback systems left) Patty Sainsbury (8542), into manufacturing processes, most modem meth• Cecelia Soares, a veteri-, ods for feedback design are extremely complicated narian and the keynote and are based on calculations that are difficult to speaker; and Karen Simkins understand, says Tony. (5355). The speaker's sub• Tony used a much simpler method, known as ject was "Beyond Survival: Quantitative Feedback Theory, after taking courses Growing Through Transi• from Isaac Horowitz, an engineering professor at tions." Patty and Karen are UC Davis and Sandia consultant who developed members of the Secretarial Quantitative Feedback Theory. •LD Committee that planned the seventh annual workshop event. Congratulations To Ellen and John (5365) Liebenberg, a son, David Wade, Oct. 26. LAB NEWS • December 6, 1991 • Page Four

(Continued from Page One) Environmental Restoration Environmental Sites at Sandia, Albuquerque

Restoration EAST& NORTH potentially contaminated site and to add it to our COYOTE TEST AREAS: 33 list. We don't know that the site is actually con• taminated, but we'll definitely investigate it. So we've been putting a lot of effort into making sure that we've got the potential sites identified." No Imminent Danger "It would be nice to say that in more than 40 N years of operation we've left the environment completely undisturbed," Gordon continues, "that there's nothing to worry about anywhere. But we've found a site that does require action to pro• t 1 MILE tect the groundwater - a chemical landfill in (Approximate) Area 3-and other sites, such as some in Area 2, THUNDER that may need remedial action. RANGE:15 "What I can say is that after extensive efforts

to identify these environmental restoration sites, SOUTHWEST CENTRAL COYOTE TEST we don't see anything - chemical or radioac• COYOTE TEST FIELD & VICINITY: 10 tive- that's an imminent danger to anyone at FIELD: 30 Sandia or to anyone else living or working in the vicinity. Our main job now is to continue assess• ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION site distribution at Sandia, Albuquerque is indicated on this map. The ing the sites, and to deal with them according to number of sites in each area is approximate, as are the scale and all map locations. About five sites that do their urgency." not fall into any of these areas are not shown. If clean-up of a site is needed, it begins after the site has been completely assessed, Gordon actions we can take without doing further damage. are locations where explosive or burn tests were explains. Sandia is negotiating with the Environ• We don't want to make things worse. We also want conducted; about 15 are the locations of now• mental Protection Agency (EPA) for a schedule to be confident that our remedial action is effec• removed underground storage tanks that leaked tive, so that someone looking back years in the fu• fuel oil or transformer oil; and about 10 are acci• Groundwater is one of the most im• ture won't point to our well-meaning mistakes." dental oil spills (motor oil, transformer oil, etc.). About 160 of the 190 sites are at Sandia, Albu• The remaining 85 or so (Albuquerque and ... portant considerations in setting querque. The rest are at other locations where elsewhere) are a variety of test or storage sites priorities for site assessment. Sandia conducts or has conducted operations, such where hazardous materials might have been in• as Tonopah Test Range in Nevada and White volved at one time or another. The potential haz• Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Environ• ards to the environment include the possibility of that would have the Labs begin the formal as• mental restoration sites at Sandia, Livermore, mon• either a toxic chemical or of radioactivity at some sessment process for 10 percent of the most criti• itored under a different program conducted by level above the natural background. cal sites within a year, and another 25 percent Environmental Protection Div. 8542 (see article within two years. below), are not included in this count. Protection Centers on Groundwater "Sometimes people ask why we don't just go About 30 of the Albuquerque sites are septic Threat to the groundwater - or potential in and start cleaning up," says Gordon. "The an• tanks and drainfields; approximately the same threat- is one of the most important considera• swer is that we need to know what's there, how far number are various disposal sites where solids or tions in setting priorities for dealing with the sites, any contamination might have spread, and what liquids were or might have been buried; about 20 (Continued on Next Page)

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Instead of Doing Easy Fixes Strategy: Zero In on the Most Problematic Sites First Many of the environmental restoration sites chemical constituents. those in Area 2 and several septic tank and drain being investigated at Sandia would be relatively Next in priority are septic tanks and drain fields. Sandia environmental experts are also straightforward to clean up, and tackling them first fields. Because they are liquid systems, any haz• spearheading a regional investigation to increase would quickly bring down the numbers. So why ardous materials in them are more mobile than understanding of the water table beneath Kirtland not do it that way? solid material. Septic tanks and drain fields are AFB and surrounding areas. Gordon Smith, Manager of Environmental also often associated with photo labs, explosives Two of the Sandia sites - the chemical land• Programs Dept. 7720, explains how Sandia sets work, or other potential sources of hazardous fill and the mixed-waste landfill- have been priorities for environmental restoration. "We're chemicals. selected by the DOE Office of Technology De• velopment as locations for demonstration projects. following a process that ensures we put our effort Tale of Two Landfills into the areas that are most likely to cause prob• These projects are intended to demonstrate and de• lems," he says. Gordon emphasizes that Sandia is All this attention to getting the priorities velop tools that can be used to better understand doing this rather than simply trying to make its straight doesn't mean there's been no tangible and remediate similar waste sites in the DOE "scorecard" look good. "We're concentrating on progress yet. Field investigations have taken weapon complex. sites such as the Area 3 chemical and mixed-waste place at the chemical waste and mixed-waste Several Division 7723 members, working with landfills and on Area 2," he says. landfills. Work plans are being drafted for field officials from the New Mexico Environmental De• As Sandia investigators locate sites, they pur• studies of more than 50 other sites, including partment, have developed an innovative agreement sue more detail about them by interviewing pre• to allow continuing studies and eventual remedia• sent and retired workers who may know about the tion of the chemical waste landfill. Trichloroethy• areas, by studying aerial photos, and by reviewing lene (TCE) at levels above EPA standards was any records that exist about the sites. found in water samples from wells monitoring the When available information is in hand, inves• site early in 1990. "We're still talking with the tigators develop plans that define the scope of state people about our strategy, but we want to take an 'inside out' approach," says Alva Parsons (7723), who has worked on ways to deal with this Tools for field investigation include landfill. .... monitoring wells, soil gas surveys, The Sandia environmental specialists believe that in this case the most effective and efficient and magnetic and radar scans. corrective actions will result from focusing first on the source of the TCE. Determining the pre• work to be accomplished and consider alternative cise extent of contamination beneath the landfill corrective measures. "The measures can range will come later, and corrective actions will de• from doing nothing but monitoring the site to con• pend on the source and the pathways that the TCE ducting comprehensive clean-up efforts," says is following. Warren Cox, Acting Supervisor of Environmental Monitoring wells have already been placed in Impact and Restoration Div. 7723, "with all kinds the area, and samples of the air just above the wa• of combinations in between." ter tables in those wells show that contaminants In addition to appying a DOE ranking system, exist in gas phase. This fact suggests that a system Sandia has developed its own ranking based on to pump air out of the monitoring wells and re• four characteristics: volumes of waste and haz• move pollutants may help reduce the groundwater ardous materials, the form of the materials (solid, problems. liquid, or gas), the distance to the water table, and Another step in studying the landfill is to do a the distance to water wells that are in production. geophysical survey with magnetic and radar tech• "The landfills that Gordon mentioned came nology developed by the Navy. That survey will to the top of our list almost immediately," says reveal the location of pits and metallic objects un• Warren. They include a Tech Area 2 landfill and der the surface. Later, a shallow-soil gas survey two landfills in Area 3, one for chemical waste will give a two-dimensional picture of where and another for radioactive waste. The latter is TCE and other volatile organic pollutants are con• now designated a mixed-waste landfill, because centrated near the surface. Then deeper tests will it has received wastes with both radioactive and (Continued on Page Six)

(Continued from Preceding Page) This amount is well below the New Mexico Water investigation of underground storage tanks con• Quality Control Commission's limit of 100 ppb. taining hazardous materials. The Food and Drug Administration sets tolerance An example of another type of site is any of a because groundwater is a vital water source in levels for TCE in food in the 10-30 parts per mil• dozen or so "firing sites," Warren explains. They New Mexico. Only one site, a chemical-waste lion range, more than 1,000 times as much as the are typically in the Coyote Canyon blast area or landfill in Tech Area 3, is known to have affected EPA allows in water. "Thunder Range" south of Area 3, where explo• the groundwater. There, small quantities of tri• sives have been tested. In many cases, depleted chloroethylene (TCE) - a common constituent of Additional Sites Aren't New uranium was used in the tests and scattered by the solvents and cleaning fluids, and a suspected (but Warren Cox, Acting Supervisor of Environ• explosion. Most of the uranium was removed by not definite) cause of cancer - have been found in mental Impact and Restoration Div. 7723, says health-physics technicians after the tests, and then monitoring wells near the landfill, and action is be• Sandia's efforts in identifying possible problem the areas were surveyed by Geiger counter and de• ing taken to eliminate the source. sites have increased the number during the last few termined to be safe. Because of the way the areas The TCE at this site does not pose any imme• years. A draft DOE report released about three had been used, however, they are on the list of po- diate threat to public health, both because of the re• years ago listed 117 Sandia sites to be investigated tential problem sites. . mote location - 4 miles from the nearest water for environmental restoration. (According to local Other sites with relatively limited environmen• DOE officials, the final version of the report is tal damage include oil spills in the Motor Pool, at In effect, the rules have changed: now being reviewed.) "It's not that the others are the steam plant, and at the Solar Thermal Test Fa• Once-acceptable practices are no new sites," says Warren. "Whatever sites we find cility ("Solar Tower"), where 30 gallons of oil was were already there, waiting to be discovered." spilled and then burned off, says Kathy Gaither longer permitted. Warren notes that operations at these sites (contractor), who tracks the sites. Other typical were conducted by the methods generally accepted sites are several small waste-burial areas associ• well other than the monitoring wells - and the at the time, years or decades ago. Like everyone ated with test facilities, such as the old cable site in low concentrations. (The 4-mile-distant drinking• else, Sandia has learned more about environmental Coyote Test Field. water well is also sampled regularly, and no TCE matters since then. In effect, the rules have But each site, no matter how large or how has ever been found.) In quarterly sampling of the changed, and once-acceptable practices are no small a problem it's believed to be right now, will monitoring wells, explains technical task leader longer permitted. be investigated. "We'll be spending a lot of time Cindy Ardito (contractor), the TCE concentration The new sites have been identified through a and effort to make sure we give each site the atten• has occasionally exceeded the EPA limit of 5 parts program going on since 1985. A survey of septic tion appropriate to its condition," says Warren. per billion, sometimes reaching as much as 24 ppb. systems added a number of sites to the list, as did .CS/WKeener(3163) LAB NEWS • December 6, 1991 • Page Six

Waste Sites There Since 1948 Sandia's Top Priority: Tech Area 2 ····i< i f.l;f:is~i1~1~ ?·G~oii~ ··············· · Sites in Area 2 are now the Labs' top priority Area 2 was built in 1948 by Los Alamos Lab for assessment and environmental restoration. In• as the world's first production and assembly facil• '«<*l'«fl/A1fi'!JJ~ent::# , active waste sites in this area (about a half mile ity for nuclear weapons. (Sandia became a separate Future Rollution u··· south of Area 1) have been a high priority since the lab in November 1949.) Weapon assembly opera• first list of inactive waste sites was released by tions continued for about 10 years. From the late '~7jif-~!itc~tt~ DOE, and assessment of the sites now ranks above 1950s to the present, major Area 2 activities have . a~d conWequent!rneect epvironmevt- other activities. been the development and testing of conventional IrJatedg~~i~ ;:-: ~P! hav§ ~ . moie . 9~~~ In the most recent rankings of environmental high explosives and explosive devices. •· ..••• ~~dized ~oiltceo!iPfoitnationaoout\Y~at restoration program activities at Sandia, only Had to Research History :permits ~requir~~andho"'to get tlieih. Area 2 is in the DOE category designated "time > As a J:'~sult, S!lys)1mFis~ . , SuperyJsor critical." John and his colleagues have had to piece to• .pf pewly. !9bn~d ~Pl!Ptipn J?;ev~Jltioo.-iin4 "Time critical means an assessment is needed gether the history of Area 2. "There's no records Environlilental M8hltoring Div. 7725, to determine if current circumstances present an center where you can query the history of opera• Sandians will find)t easier to get tiJ.R~ly, tions at a particular location," he says. "Information consist~h!: ~~w .er~· >. The f?Jmati

To Become a Dean of Engineering Venky Says Good-Bye to Labs, Hello to Academia If he could tell opportunity when to knock, Venky Narayanamurti might not be leaving the Labs quite so soon. But the Vice President of Re• search and Exploratory Technology 1000, who has been at Sandia since May 1987, couldn't turn down an offer to become Dean of Engineering at VENKY NARAYANAMURTI, an up-and-coming university. He'll begin his new in a lab where much of the post at the University of California at Santa structural work on thallium• Barbara on Jan. 2. containing high-temperature "I strongly feel that one should do different superconductors was done things to renew oneself," says Venky. "For me, five -"an area in which Sandia to seven years is optimal. If I could have tailor• is a leader," says Venky. made my career here, I would probably have (Photo by Randy Montoya, stayed another year or two. But someone nomi• 3162) nated me for the position at Santa Barbara, and I found that it's one of the few universities I would care to go to. It's a fine institution for someone in my field [solid state physics], but at the same time it's young and growing, so I can still make my own impact." At Sandia, he inaugurated that kind of movement Reflecting on his time at Sandia, Venky says by creating research positions for several depart• Venky Advanced Teamwork the Labs' spirit of national service is one of the ment managers. "Now," he says, "when I see some "Venky has exemplified the Sandia val• strong impressions he'll take with him. "We're of our supervisors choosing to go back to technical ues [teamwork, integrity, quality, leadership, viewed as an objective institution," he says, "a work as well, that's refreshing. It's given them a and respect for the individual] through his group of people who have high standards of objec• chance to become active scientifically once again, daily work and his interactions with other tivity and integrity and who put our expertise to and it has let them renew themselves, which we all Sandians and customers. In particular, he has work for the nation." need to do -no matter how good we are as man• been especially instrumental in advancing in• agers. Though it's not a uniformly accepted prac• Joy and Frustration terorganizational teamwork at Sandia. We tice yet, I think it's becoming much more so, and wish him the very best in his new position, He believes the ability of Sandia researchers is not just in technical areas." and count ourselves fortunate to have had the starting to become widely recognized in the scien• Venky says a return to science is part of what privilege and pleasure of working with him tific world. "Everybody has known about Bell he plans to accomplish by the move to Santa Bar• for the past five years." Labs for a long time," he says. "But because of bara. He expects to have a personal research pro• AINarath Sandia's more isolated location and the history of gram, with graduate students and post-docs classified work, it's harder for our people to get the working in it. "I hope to see Sandia hiring some of the restructuring and quality processes - that al• degree of external recognition they might get my students!" he says. low the technical research folks to do their work," somewhere else. So the extremely good quality of He also expects to take a personal hand in he says. "Management and administrative struc• the people here has been both a joy and a frustra• building up the Santa Barbara engineering school. tures will have to let that happen. The core compe• tion. I hope I can continue to be a spokesman for It's one of the few areas in a budget-strained state tency structure is a step in that direction. the Labs' capabilities." where growth is planned. Addition of 25 new en• "Changes in the world are important to rec• He also notes that several major prizes won by gineering faculty members to the present 125 is ognize," he continues. "AI Narath has clearly Sandians for technical accomplishments have done planned, and Venky says he'll be personally re• enunciated that Sandia is in the national security much in recent years to lift the veil from the Labs. cruiting each of those professors. He says the uni• business. But we recognize that it's not only tra• Some of those are the E. 0. Lawrence Award, versity's present work in several areas, such as ditional defense, but also the economic health of received by Tom Picraux (1110) last year (Sandia's compound semiconductors, polymers, and materi• the country, that's vital to the future. That's why fourth winner); the Electron Microscopy Society of als sciences, is already first-rate -"as good as the increasingly outward-looking nature of the America's Burton Medal, received by Joe Michael the best in the country" - and he plans for others Labs is so encouraging." (1822) in August; the American Physical Society's to reach that stature. Any final words? "I'll miss many Sandians. John H. Dillon medal for Ken Schweizer's (former As for Sandia and its future, he notes that But having been here the last few years, I feel Sandian) research in polymers; and a number of funding is getting more complex and that regula• much more qualified to do the job of a dean of R&D 100 awards won by Sandia teams in such ar• tory requirements complicate research. "Sandia engineering. And I'll always be an ambassador eas as laser technology and parallel computing. simply has to fmd new ways - this is important in for Sandia." ecs . The growing openness of Sandia is also mak• ing a difference. "The way we're beginning to Takes New Post Jan. 13 work with industry is a major change. We had sev• eral people in 1000, even before technology trans• fer got the kind of encouragement it has now, who Fleury Named Sandia Research VP were in the vanguard of forming relationships Paul Fleury, currently Director of the Physical densed matter, atomic and molecular, astro• with industry. As another example, when I came Research Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, at physics, low-temperature, and theoretical physics, to Sandia, DOE had already approved the Inte• Murray Hill, N.J., has been named Vice President as well as biophysics. grated Materials Research Lab. Now we're seeing of Research and Ex• Paul received his BS and MS in physics from that come to fruition as an outside-the-fence facili• ploratory Technology John Carroll University and his PhD from MIT. ty where we can interact with industry and univer• 1000, effective Jan. 13. He has twice been a visiting Fellow at Oxford sities. The computational sciences folks are also He succeeds Venky University. He has five patents and has published now outside the fence in Area 4. This will make it Narayanamurti, who more than 120 scientific articles. Among other easier to participate in national initiatives in high• is retiring to become honors, he is a Fellow of the American Physical performance computing. Dean of Engineering at Society and the American Association for the Ad• "I'd also like to see further teaming between the University of Cali• vancement of Science. He is active in the Ameri• Sandia and Santa Barbara. We have had, for ex• fornia, Santa Barbara. can Physical Society and the National Research ample, collaborations in compound semiconduc• Paul joined Bell Council. In 1985 he received the Michelson-Mor• tors, polymers, and materials science for some Labs in 1965 as a Mem• ley Award for his experimental research in laser time. And I'd especially like to work toward ber of Technical Staff and non-linear optics in condensed matter. teaming with Sandia, Livermore, because it's in the Quantum Elec- close geographically." PAUL FLEURY tronics Research De- Fleury Selection Endorsed partment. He was promoted to Head of the Con• Moves between Management, Research Venky Narayanamurti, whom Paul densed State Physics Research Department in 1970 Fleury will succeed as VP-1000, says "I've One innovation that Venky brought from Bell and became Director of the Materials Research Lab• known Paul as a scientist and colleague for Labs was encouraging scientists to move back and oratory in 1979. more than 20 years. He's a wonderful per• forth between management and technical work. He In his present position, which he assumed in son to work with, and I'm really delighted encouraged that at Bell Labs, he says, and found it 1984, he has had responsibility for fundamental he has agreed to come to Sandia." hard in the early stages but common practice now. research in all aspects of physics, including con- LAB NEWS • December&, 1991 • Page Eight

Leaving Sandia after 30 Years Ev Beckner to Become DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary Everet Beckner, who has been on special as• cause of the work I Executive VP Orval Jones (20) says, "All San• signment at DOE Headquarters since July 1990, is had the opportunity dians can feel proud that Ev has been selected to retiring from Sandia to become Principal Deputy to do, and because fill such an important position. Although our rela• Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs. He is the people I worked tionship must, of necessity, change, we look for• scheduled to begin his new position Dec. 9 and with couldn't have ward to working with him and supporting him." will report to Assistant Secretary for Defense Pro• been better." Sandia President AI Narath adds, "We'll miss grams Richard Claytor. Ev joined the Ev. He played an important role over the years in Ev was Vice President for Defense Programs Labs research staff supporting Sandia's development into a major 5000 when he accepted an assignment as Energy as a plasma physi• R&D laboratory. Now, we wish him well as he Secretary Watkins' Special Science Advisor for cist and was named takes on an important new assignment." Weapon Programs. His experience in that position, Supervisor of the he says, led him to accept the position of Principal Electro-Physics Re• Many Challenging Possibilities Deputy Assistant Secretary when it was offered. search Division in Although Ev's precise areas of responsibili• "I had never thought of leaving Sandia early 1965. He became ty in his new position have not yet been set, he or going to work for the federal government," he Manager of the says he expects to be active in a number of na• EVERET BECKNER says. "But the experience of the last year and a Plasma Physics Re• tionally important areas, including the evolution half put me in a position to better understand the search Department in 1970. He later managed the of the weapon labs, arms control, nuclear non• Department and what it needs in order to accom• Laser Physics Research Department. proliferation, and the reconfiguration of the plish its objectives. I suspect I wouldn't have con• In 1973, he was promoted to Director of Phys• weapon complex. sidered leaving Sandia for DOE ifl hadn't seen ical Research, a position with responsibilities that "In general," he says, "I'll be the Assistant that firsthand, as well as becoming acquainted included development of technology for high• Secretary's deputy in any part of the responsibili• with the people involved. Now, I feel I have a bet• power pulsed electron accelerators, pulsed nuclear ties of Defense Programs that may be required. ter understanding of what's needed, and I believe I reactors, studies of radiation effects on materials, It's a challenging opportunity to deal with large• can contribute to the successful completion of a and the Sandia laser fusion program. He became scale problems during a time when the Depart• number of things. All those considerations made Director of Waste Management and Geotechnical ment is having to change many of its operations the decision easier." Projects in 1978. In that position, his responsibili• - a time when the whole world is in a period of ties included the early work on site characteriza• unbelievable change." Wasn't Planning 30-Year Labs Career tion for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Everet urges Sandians to "keep up the good Reflecting on his Sandia career, Ev says, "Like early studies of the Nevada Test Site as a possible work" and not become overwhelmed by the pace a lot of people, I didn't come to Sandia from grad• repository for commercial nuclear waste. He be• of changes being thrust upon everyone involved in uate school expecting to make it a 30-year career. came Director of Energy Programs in 1982. nuclear weapon activities. "I have many friends When I joined in 1961, I figured I would start my Ev was named Vice President of Energy and colleagues whom I plan to stay in touch with, career there and see how things worked out. And it Programs in 1983 and became Vice President of for both personal and professional reasons," he turned out to be 30 years, during which I saw a lot Defense Programs in 1986. He is a Fellow of the says. "I expect to be in and out of the Albuquerque of change, especially the expansion of programs in American Physical Society and a member of the area for both family and official reasons, and I look energy and reimbursables. American Association for the Advancement of forward to keeping up old friendships while creat• "It was a wonderful career," he continues, "be- Science. ing new ones." •CS

Sandia News Briefs Employee Death White House Kicks Off Electric Car Battery Project Robert Wege of Nick Magnani, Manager of Power Sources Dept. 2520, represented Sandia's battery program at a Computer Procurement White House ceremony Oct. 25 that announced the start of a four-year research project aimed at devel• Div. 3723 died Nov. 22 oping a new generation of batteries for electric cars. The goal of the $260-million project, funded after a long illness. He jointly by DOE and the US Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), is to make electric vehicles was 52 years old. widely available by the year 2000 and to develop batteries that give electric vehicles greater range Robert had been at and performance. the Labs since 1985. He Present at the ceremony were President Bush and DOE Secretary Watkins, as well as representatives was a Sandia Contract• of the USABC, a partnership of major US auto manufacturers including General Motors Corp., Chrysler ing Representative. Corp., and Ford Motor Company, with support from the electric utility industry. He is survived by As part of the project, Sandia hopes to transfer some of its existing battery technology to industry as ROBERTWEGE his wife, son, and well as initiate new development projects. "Basically, we expect to provide technical support necessary to daughter. help USABC meet its goals," says Nick. Ron Loehman Becomes Distinguished UNM Professor Retiree Deaths Ron Loehrnan, Manager of Chemistry and Ceramics Dept. 1840, was recently named a Distinguished Edward Haut (74) ...... Oct. 4 Professor in the University of New Mexico's Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department. The appoint• Robert Walter (75) ...... 0ct. 5 ment gives Ron a more formal connection to the university and recognizes his role as co-director of the Aileen George (67) ...... 0ct. 13 UNM/Sandia Materials Research and Development Laboratory, now under construction at UNM's new Edward Wood (76) ...... Oct. 17 research park. Richard Koppel (67) ...... 0ct. 21 The professorships, established last year, allow technical employees to commit 20 percent of their time Pete Vigil (70) ...... Oct. 24 to university research and teaching. Ron is the ninth Sandian to be named. Distinguished professors are ap• Melvin Petersen (77) ...... Oct. 24 pointed through a vote of tenured faculty in the appropriate UNM department. Herman Goldenberg (66) ...... 0ct. 27

Dish-Stirling Technology May Soon Produce Electricity Sympathy Sandia has entered into a joint venture with Cummins Power Generation aimed at developing cost• To Tom Gutierrez (2481) on the death of competitive solar power based on dish-Stirling solar technology. By 1995, Cummins (a subsidiary of his mother-in-law in Albuquerque, Nov. 7. Cummins Engine Company) plans to produce solar power systems that could be used for pumping water To Warren Miller (6316) on the death of his in remote locations, powering remote villages, or supplementing existing utility grids. wife and to Larry Carrillo (9331) on the death of Dish-Stirling technology has been under development by DOE since the late 1970s. A dish• his mother at Stanford Medical Center, Calif., shaped concentrator - consisting of many membrane mirrors - tracks and focuses sunlight onto a re• Nov. 11. ceiver located at the dish's focal point. Inside the receiver, heat from the intense sunlight vaporizes sodium metal, which condenses and heats helium gas inside an adjacent Stirling heat engine. The al• ternating heating and cooling of the helium inside the engine drives a power piston and alternator to make electricity. Rich Diver of Solar Thermal Electric Technology Div. 6217 says dish-Stirling systems have achieved the highest rate of sunlight converted to usable energy ever recorded in a solar system: about 29 percent. Thle newepeper can be recycled with Send potential Sandia News Briefs to LAB NEWS, Div. 3162. Sendle office peper LAB NEWS • December 6,1991 Page Nine Low-Level Radioactive Wastewater: Sandia's View by Glen Cheney Vice President for ES&H & Facilities Management Editor's Note: The following "OpEd" piece is charged by the federal government with regulat• and environmental effects of future Sandia and was submitted by Glen Cheney (7000) to the Albu• ing the discharge of radioactive wastewaters to other Albuquerque NRC licensee discharges to the querque Journal, and it was scheduled to run in an sanitary sewer systems from commercial users of sewer. Sandia's position is that NRC regulations issue earlier this week along with some other views radioactive materials. In New Mexico, NRC au• for safe low-level radioactive wastewater discharge about the slightly radioactive wastewater that thority has been granted to the State. limits already incorporate the findings of an envi• Sandia had planned to discharge into the sewer ronmental assessment. Moreover, the NRC limits system. Because this wastewater issue has raised • Numerous cities along the Rio Grande and are based on the recommendations of national and so much interest, the LAB NEWS is reprinting the elsewhere in the United States have adopted the international scientific bodies whose purpose is to piece for employees and other interested readers NRC guidelines in their city ordinances. These in• recommend safe practices for radioactive material who may not have seen the original printing in the clude Austin, Denver, Phoenix, and El Paso. handling. The $30,000 study now being sponsored Journal. by the City Council may be valuable as a means to As explained in an ES&H Update that was dis• • It is the opinion of the Albuquerque city at• provide public information. Selecting experienced, tributed to all Sandians last week, the wastewater is torney that the City has no authority to regulate ra• highly qualified experts to do the study will be an a result of experiments that Sandia conducted on dioactive wastewater discharges to limits stricter essential step toward achieving a valid, enforce• fuel that will power the new production reactor at than those of the NRC and State. (This type of sit• able city ordinance. DOE's Savannah River Plant in South Carolina. uation is not unusual. The City also has no author• Throughout the public discussion of this is• The wastewater contains extremely low levels of ity to regulate either liquor sales or the licensing sue, Sandia's credibility and integrity have been radioactivity- its radionuclide content actually of drivers.) questioned. This has been extremely painful to meets the Environmental Protection Agency stan• those of us who work at Sandia. We are part of oordfor drinking water. Despite that, the City ofAl• • Even in the absence of any legal obligation, this community. Many of us were born here or buquerque has revoked a discharge permit for the Sandia sought a discharge permit from the City. have lived here for decades. We have raised our wastewater that it issued to Sandia in June 1990 Sandia also agreed to support a city administration children here. Sandians have contributed to the and is now conducting a six-month study of the en• proposal to amend the city ordinance to allow reg• economic, cultural, and political life in New Mex• tire issue of low-level radioactive waste disposal. ulated low-level radioactive wastewater dis• ico. We are as eager as any to preserve both our In this anicle, Glen discusses the issue and ex• charges to the sewer system. Sandia took these environment and the health of all New Mexicans. plains why he believes the City needs a valid ordi• actions voluntarily to encourage open, candid dia• When the debate over this issue has sought to por• nance and waste monitoring system. logue with the City and to help establish city dis• tray us as uncaring, cynical outsiders, it has not charge standards. served the public interest. Albuquerque has experienced much recent So, where do we go from here? The City public discussion about the use of the sanitary There are also points of disagreement. Oppo• Council has commissioned a $30,000 six-month sewer system for disposal of slightly radioactive nents to any change in the city ordinance have study. Sandia is pursuing alternative disposal wastewaters. Some of the discussion has cen• charged Sandia with being unwilling or unable to methods. Sandia will not discharge low-level ra• tered on points of genuine disagreement. But tell the community about the radionuclide content dioactive wastewaters to the sewer during this much of the discussion has been on topics about of future discharges. It is very difficult for us to ac• six-month period without City approval. But we which there is no real disagreement. Areas of curately predict the R&D activities we may be believe that the City's most productive course is agreement include: asked to perform in the future. So accurately pre• clear. The City needs a valid city ordinance. Un• dicting our wastes is virtually impossible. But we der present law, that means adopting the NRC • As a result of its research and development are fully committed to obeying all federal and state and State guidelines. The City also needs to insti• activities, Sandia generated 50,000 gallons of standards for any and all discharges. tute a monitoring system to assure itself and the slightly radioactive wastewater. This water more In another point of disagreement, it is charged public that valid limits are being met by all pre• than meets all federal and state requirements for that there has been no definitive study of the health sent and potential dischargers. • sewer discharge. In fact, if this water appeared at the input of any municipal water system it would A Short Play meet all EPA standards for radionuclide content. Of course, to make it potable, it would still re• quire treatment to remove algae and bacteria. By Retiree Meets Restructuring way of comparison, this water has about the same Editor's Note: Old LAB NEWS editors don't RS: So you report to a director, and you man• level of radioactivity as beer and about one-sixth mellow-they just seem to get progressively irrev• age a department, but you're not a department that of milk. erent. Former editor Bruce Hawkinson (4302), manager. once an actor of small repute, is now trying his DS: Not the kind of department manager you • Sandia was asked by the Department of En• hand at playwrighting and has submitted the fol• remember. ergy to do work we knew would create low-level lowing one-act play about restructuring at Sandia. RS: (After a pause) So what are real depart• radioactive waste. Before generating this waste• All critics are encouraged to call him direct. ment managers doing if supervisors are running water, Sandia applied to the City of Albuquerque the departments? for a discharge permit. The permit was granted. The Scene: A Social Occasion DS: They're Manager Level Twos, or M2s, When Sandia was ready to discharge, Sandia The Context: The Current Restructuring and they're assigned to special projects or support went to the City again to notify city officials of Effort- Worthwhile but not to be Dealt with offices, reporting to directors or VPs. our intent to discharge. The permit was then re• Reverently 100 Percent of the Time RS: But you don't report to them. voked. An Albuquerque ordinance prohibiting The Rationale: It's Therapeutic to Smile at DS: Right. discharge of any radioactive wastewaters to the Ourselves Sometimes RS: Tell me again about vice presidents run• sanitary sewers had been discovered. It was the The Players: A Retired Sandian (RS) and a ning divisions. basis for revoking the permit. "Division Supervisor" (DS) DS: "Division" is now the name for some vice presidencies. And some of them are "sectors," not • The present city ordinance makes no distinc• RS: Congrats, I hear you've been promoted to to be confused with "sections." tion between naturally occurring radioactivity and manager. RS: But divisions and sectors are still corn• what human activities might add. It also contains DS: Nope, no promotion, but I'm now a Man• posed of directorates. no provisions requiring careful record keeping or ager Level One, or Ml. DS: No, they're composed of centers. Each monitoring of waste. These activities are essential RS: Sounds like a rifle. You still head up a center is run by a director- who's often assisted if compliance is to be verifiable. division, right? by an M2 or two. DS: No, divisions are run by vice presidents RS: You mentioned sections. Are they still • Albuquerque's municipal water currently these days. around? contains safe but nonetheless measurable levels of RS: You're kidding! I'd heard that VPs were DS: Not really. They're now teams, and radioactivity. So radioactive wastewater is in our more visible these days. So what are you doing? they're supervised by team supervisors. sanitary sewers constantly. The Rio Grande, into DS: I run a department. RS: I suppose Small Staff knows about all which our sanitary sewers empty after treatment, RS: I thought you said you hadn't been this. has considerably more measurable radioactive ma• promoted. DS: Oh, yeah- no more Small Staff. Essen• terial, mostly as the result of the mineral composi• DS: I haven't. I didn't go up to it. It came tially, those folks are now part of SMC, or Sandia tion of New Mexico soils. down tome. Management Council. RS: And you report to? RS: Thirty years at Sandia, been gone for a • The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) DS: A director. year, and I feel like a new hire! • LAB NEWS • December 6, 1991 Page Ten

Q: We generate a lot of styrofoam packing employees to transfer vacation for the benefit of box is identified as "Recycle Paper" and its lid is waste at Sandia. I've thrown it away by the boxful, another employee. An extensive study has been taped down. Sandia is also recycling cardboard but this stuff is terrible and really needs to be recy• made on this issue, and it was determined that the boxes, but because of work force limitations, not cled. Its manufacturing process pollutes the envi• most viable way of allowing Sandia employees to all buildings are yet part of the operation. ronment and its disposal overloads our landfills make contributions to another Sandia employee is Jim Martin (3400) because it takes decades to decay. At another na• to make a personal donation through a private tional laboratory where I used to work, we kept it organization or trust fund. Q: As part ofFamily Day activities, an exhibit in large trash barrels for anyone who needed it, Paul Stanford (100) was set up west of the TTC Bldg. on the packaging even for personal use. Perhaps Sandia's Shipping and transportation of radioactive waste. The ex• Department could make use of it. Besides business Q: The small-value purchasing program is a hibit was simple but excellent. I purposely brought purposes, Sandians could use it to mail gifts or wonderful idea. For years, we have estimated that my family to get their reactions, even though I pack their belongings when they move. It's a great $50 worth of DIP circuits probably cost $150 by don't work in this technology area. After a few filler in large gardening pots- ask Sandians for the time it got through the purchasing jungle gym. words of explanation, I baited my 17-year-old son other uses and/' m sure they' II think of plenty! /' m sure the program will save significant time for a response. He was amazed that people have A: We assume you are referring to the styro• and money. concerns about transportation of nuclear waste af• foam pellets or "peanuts" that some companies use The one problem is having to haul the $51 ter seeing the shipping vessel. It doesn't take a for packing purposes. Though Sandia does not use Reimbursement Voucher up to the Department PhD in metallurgy, such as I have., to judge the ro• this kind of packing material, our Shipping Organi• Manager for a signature. That person is busy, bustness of the design. My point: take it on the zation will recycle it by using it for outgoing ship• and since a staff member can sign for $1,000 on road. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how ments. Please contact Rey Griego (3744) for a regular purchase order, it's hard to see why many million words is it worth to see the product? disposition instructions. Also, the Recycling Com• the same staff member cannot also sign for Get your act together, Sandia container people, mittee is investigating ways to dispose of this ma• $250 worth of small-value purchases. and haul that trailer around New Mexico. Park it terial. Thank you for your interest in recycling. A: Thanks for your compliment on the Indi• in Taos, Santa Fe, Moriarty, everywhere. Jim Martin (3400) vidual Small Value Purchasing (ISVP) program. A: Thank you for your compliment. DOE al• It appears that the Purchasing Organization may ready has traveling exhibits of spent fuel casks and Q: Occasionally, I use overnight mail to expe• have found another way to be responsive to its other radioactive material transport packagings. dite delivery of urgently needed information to customers. The WIPP project brings the TRUPACT II to cities customers or contractors. Sandia's policy requires Acquisition approval levels are determined by and towns along likely delivery routes in New a letter of justification, signed by a supervisor, Chief Financial Officer Directorate 100 based on Mexico. These displays are generally effective. each time I want to spend the whopping $9.95 for the policies of our parent company, AT&T. ISVP The package you saw is not related to the an overnight package. I find this policy curiously is a pilot program for emergency purchases docu• WIPP project or other programs in New Mexico. It archaic, especially when, as an MTS, I can autho• mented in SLI 4600, "Employee Travel and Busi• will be used to ship intensely radioactive capsules rize thousands of dollars on a purchase order or ness Expenses." The maximum allowable charge to irradiation facilities. Since not all radioactive or Just-In-Time order. I never have a problem ob• has been raised from $100 to $250 for consistency hazardous materials are shipped in sufficient quan• taining a supervisor's signature, but the cost of my with AT&T, and the approval level for a division tity to require the same degree of accident resis• time doing so can be significant relative to $9.95 supervisor has remained at $50, also consistent tance, these packages are somewhat atypical of (it doesn't take much of a staff member's time to with AT&T. As we get new information on AT&T those used for most of the 2 million shipments cost Sandia $9.95) and the extra time required approval policies, or as the nature of ISVP made each year. As a result, the usefulness of this tends to negate the reason for using overnight changes, we will consider revising these approval particular package as a public information tool mail: to save time. Why doesn't Sandia permit levels. may not be as great as those already used by DOE. MTSs to authorize overnight mail and direct the However, the ISVP program is a secondary Tom Hunter (6300) costs to a relevant charge number, as we do for a procurement method, to be used only when a 1/T item? I think this would save time and money time-critical need exists, prepayments are re• and be consistent with our "empowered" culture. quired, or it makes good business sense. It was A: In 1988, an audit team criticized Sandia for never intended to circumvent the primary meth• the large amount of money spent on items mailed ods of procurement, of which there are several, by overnight express. The response to this audit all with lower approval levels than ISVP. They was to have the line supervision sign a letter of au• are Just-In-Time (JIT, reference SLI 6620-1 ), thorization, except for items generated by mail General Stores (SLI 6470), Accelerated Pro• services clerks. The volume of express mail has curement (SLI 6631), and Purchase Order (SLI dropped dramatically since then. Also of concern 6631 and 6631-1). I encourage you to take ad• is a Security Brief describing the rules for sending vantage of the primary or secondary procure• documents up to and including Secret Restricted ment method that is best suited to meeting the Data (SRD) through express mail- in this case, specific needs of the business. DOE Order 5634.14 is used for guidance. The or• Paul Stanford (100) der includes having a supervisor authorize the mailing. We are currently working on a charge• Q: I'm totally in favor of recycling and I wish back procedure that will allow anyone to approve more could be done. In Bldg. 836, however, one as• express mail by charging it to their project num• pect of the paper recycling program strikes me as ber, which will take effect Oct. 1, 1992. dumb. Paper in our office and in others is col• Herb Pitts (31 00) lected in cardboard boxes supplied by Sandia to people who are moving to a new location. It seems Q: A situation arose in our organization re• to me that we are packing a penny's worth of cently in which the wife of one of our co-workers wastepaper in a quarter's worth of box. It also became ill and needed a liver transplant. As the seems Sandia has run out of boxes. situation required a trip to San Francisco and My office has a scenic view of the Bldg. 836 considerable time offfor this employee, we de• dumpster area. Almost every day the custodians NICK DE LOLLIS (ret.) recently became a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Material and cided it would be helpful if his co-workers could deliver many boxes to the dumpster as trash. Process Engineering (SAMPE). After more than 23 donate vacation time to alleviate his burden of Would it not make sense to use the trash boxes for years at the Labs, Nick retired in 1980. The same paper collection? (Though some are too big and having to be off work for such a long time without year, his book Adhesives, Adherends, Adhesion pay. It now seems that this is against Sandia pol• would be immovable if filled with paper.) was published. As chairman of a task group on ad• icy. Since so many companies have set this prece• A: Sandia's wastepaper recycling operation hesives in the International Standards Organiza• dent, why is it that Sandia cannot formulate a poli• utilizes cardboard boxes preprinted with the Recy• tion, he was responsible for development of the cy to help people in such a traumatic situation? cle symbol on the side. These are obtained from first international standards on adhesives. Nick A: While we appreciate the desire of our em• Transportation Div. 3423 by calling the dispatcher holds 16 patents. While at Sandia, he worked in or• ployees to help another employee in distress, we on 4-8048. Our arrangements require the recycler ganic materials; another retired Sandian from that are bound by the terms of our prime contract (Ar• to return the boxes to Sandia for reuse, though for group, Gene Frye, is also a SAMPE Fellow. Only ticle XI, Paragraph 1) to follow the personnel poli• a short time, we did run out of boxes. Archive or 42 Fellows had been inducted by the 12,000- cies and practices of AT&T and Bell Laboratories. moving boxes are not to be used for recycling. The member organization before Nick. Nick and his Neither AT&T nor Bell has programs that allow standard copier paper box may be used if the full wife Dorothea live in Albuquerque. LAB NEWS December 6, 1991 Page Eleven

BEARDED IRIS, free, you dig. Horton, NORWOOD LOOM, 8-hamess, many ex• GREAT PYRENEES PUPS, AKC-regis• SILVER EAGLE 10-SPD. BIKE, new Deadline: Friday noon before 883-7504. tras, including sectional beam, warp• tered, 10 wks. old, 1st & 2nd shots, tubes & tires, $75. Zownir, 256-3753. week of publication unless changed FIREPLACE ACCESSORIES: grate, ing board, tensioner box, yardage 3 males, $300 each . Ouellette, by holiday. Mail to Div. 3162. mesh screen, fireset, best offer. Martin, counter & shuttles, $2,300. Mulligan, 867-2440. 299-3004. 298-7320. EXERCISE BIKE, air-resistance type, si• REAL ESTATE LARGE SOFA, in good condition, $125. SAILS: 3 .9 & 4.4 windsurfing Hawaii, multaneous arm/leg action, ?-function AdRulee Sanchez, 292-1982. $135 & $140; North 5.0 Wave, $175; ergometer w/pulse monitor, new con• 4-BDR. HOME, mountain living, 2,175 sq. 1 . Umit 20 words, including last name TWO BASKETBALL TICKETS, UNM vs. 6.0 Infinity, $200; 7.0 Sl. Speed, $180. dition, $200. Ricco, 828-1997. ft., 2 baths, on 1.2 acre, large decks, and home phone. Arizona State, Dec. 7, chairbacks, Healer, 298-6967. OAK TABLE, 30" x 60", $20; service man• views, 20 min. east of Albuquerque, $25. Volk, 299-1702. IBM/PS2 model 301286, 42M hard, color ual for '79 Datsun 280ZX, free. Kolb, 2 . Include organization and full name $153,500. Lyons, 281-9283. REDSKIN STARTER JACKET, wom one VGA, 1 .44M floppy, Lotus 123, Word 271-1775. with each ad submission. 3-BDR. HOME, Eastridge area, great season, white, excellent condtion, $40 Perlect 5.0, excellent condtion, $1000. 3 . Submit each ad in writing. No home, many extras, close to KAFB, 080. Koehler, 298-2488. Brown, 294-5545. phone-ins. 1,732 ft. , $99,900. Baca, 275-2049. TENT, Sierra Designs Flashlight, 3 sea• PALOMA WATER HEATER, 44,000- sq. 4. Use 81/2 by 11-inch paper. TRANSPORTATION 3-BDR. HOME, 1-314 baths, 1,450 sq. ft., 2- sons, 2-person, $65 080. Wronosky, 120,000-Btu., $50 OBO. lman, garage, Eldorado district, $79,500. 5 . Use separate sheet for each ad 296-7265. 299-6500. car '85 TOYOTA TERCEL, 4-dr. liftback, AT, Parker, 292-8150 or 293-3955. category. CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE: solid SPINET PIANO, Baldwin Acrosonic, like AC, PS , PB, 65K miles, excellent 3-BDR. HOME, large MBR, 1-3/4 baths, 6. Type or print ads legibly; use only green sofa, 2 chairs w/ottoman, new, beautiful appearance, tone, paint, body, upholstery, garaged, main• great room w/vaulted ceiling, lire• accepted abbreviations. green/gold floral print. Linnerooth, wonderful Christmas gift, $1 ,800. tenance records available, $3,775. place, fully landscaped, east of 7. One ad per category per issue. 299-6558. Bickerstaff, 898-5529, evenings. Adams, 256-7265. Tramway, near Copper, $93,000. 8. No more than two insertions of UPRIGHT PIANO, 1906 Tryber, original MINIATURE DACHSHUNDS (3), ready '78 DATSUN 200SX, 5-spd., 2-dr., AC, Sprauer, 275-0092. keys, reconditioned, $600, negotiable. for homes Christmas week, choose same "for sale" or "wanted" item. runs well, good body, $950 OBO. PLACITAS, 2 ACRES IN TIERRA Fajardo, 299-4219. yours early, AKC-registered, parents 9. No "For Rent" ads except for em• Smith, 271-1959. MADRE, great views, quiet location, CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS, Trak child's on premises, $200 each. Simmons, ployees on temporary assignment '87 SPRINTER MOTORHOME, 22-ft., best price in area, $48,000. Bolt, 150cm, w/poles & boots, step-in bind• 293-9294. 10. No commercial ads. Chev. 30, w/350cc engine, 21 K 823-2821. ings, $30. Cuyler, 292-8076. BRONCO TOP, white, full-size, fits '80-'86, 11 . For active and retired Sandians miles, new tires, separate shower, 2-BDR. MOBILE HOME, '85 Baywood, 14 FRANKLIN STOVE, complete, $200 080. good shape, $500. Luikens, 271-0019. awning, TV antenna, roof rack. x 56, pitched roof, on river, in Truth or and DOE employees. Bland, 265-6286. TREADMILL, 112-hp/DC, pulse, speed 0- Nunez, 884-3623. Consequences, $52,500, will negoti• 12. Housing listed for sale is available NEW MEXICO CAMP RESORT MEM• 6 mph, distance, calories, variable in• '86-112 TOYOTA SUPRA, AT, AC, AM/FM ate. Eaton, 869-2847. for occupancy without regard to BERSHIP, sells for $995, affiliated cline, excellent condition, $295 080. cassette, leather interior, excellent con• 4-BDR . HOME, study, den, wrought race, creed, color, or national origin. w/coast-tCK:oast. Eaton, 869-2847. Liguori, 256-3613. dition, one owner, $9,800. McKeever, iron, 3 baths, appraised 90, now low 13. 'Work Wanted" ads limited to stu• SKI RACK, Barrecrafters, roof-mounted, ANTIQUE TVs (2) , early & late 1950s, nei• 299-4050. 80s, near UNM & Kirtland. Hendren, dent-aged children of employees. holds 4 pairs, fits '84 Cutlass & simi• ther works, cabinets in good condition, '85 TOYOTA TERCEL, AC, 5-spd., 883-5070. lar cars, cost $80 new, sell for $40. yours for the hauling. Hinds, 869-2191 . AMIFM, $3,200. Hammond, 294-2045. 5-ACRE TRACTS, Albuquerque west• Perrine, 293-1429. YAESU AMATEUR RADIO STATION, '86 . BUICK CENTURY LIMITED, side, near 1-40 & Coors, & on Paseo ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, teak, w!TV complete, FT 101 ZD, FT 901, FV 101 Sliver/gray, all power, AC, AMIFM cas• del Norte ext. , $120,000-$300,000. turntable, excellent condition, needs Z, SP 101, YD 148, $600; Heath HD- sette, 4-CAMERA BAG, $45; Pro Albinar ART OBJECTS, fitness stepper, rowing 2 yrs. old, $350 080. Hernandez, red, original owner, $1,300. Strall, OLYMPUS XA CAMERA. Wronosky, tripod, panhead, case, $35; Bogen machine. Senglaub, 281-8002. 344-5431 . 821-5280. 296-7265. ballhead 13055 (new), $40; quick-re• HOLIDAY/PARTY DRESS, Gunne Sax CRIBS, w/niattresses, 2 white, 1 yellow, '75 DODGE PICKUP, faithful 112-ton, AQUARIUM, 20.. to 30-gal., with acces• lease plate, $10. Wayland, 299-2587. b~nd, strapless, dark green velvet, clean, $30/ea. Potter, 299-6053. wltrailer hitch, 3-spd., 318 V-8, $1,100. sories. Essenmacher, 865-7066. CLASSICAL GUITAR, Juan Orozco, 1976, s1ze 5, $25. Clausen, 884-1483. DROP-LEAF DINING TABLE, Ethan Krumel, 281-4406. "CRAZY" DAISY WINDER. Newman, wlhardshell case, spruce top, extra COMMODORE 64, printer, programs, Alen, solid maple, extends to 78 inch• '83 FO.RD F250, XLT-460, 4-spd. manual, 299-2729. sets of strings, Darnpit included, $300. games, $180; TRS-80 pocket comput• es,$400. Krahlng,268-8126. trailer pkg., heavy-duty shell, 72K TWO TICKETS lor Lobos vs. Arizona, Dec. Linebarger, 275-7931 . er, printer, programs, $100; P~asonic ANTIQUE OAK ICEBOX, White Moun• miles, super clean. Luikens, 881-1382. 14, lor UA Alum. Wrons, 275-0856. CASSETIES, Russian language course, AM/FM cassette, remote, turntable, tain Grand, excelent condition, $500. 74 STAR CRAFT TRAVEL TRAILER, 22- PILOT(S) FOR PARTNERSHIP: Cessna $46; paper shredder, $75; AT&T tel&• $110. Hale, 823-9563 Petersen, 275-7467. ft., sleeps 4, spare wheel & tire, sway 170, 172R/G, 177R/G, 180, or phone answering machine, $40; be• ROWING MACHINE, perfect, $75; mi• GIRL'S BEDROOM SUITE, twin head• an bars, hitch, completely contained, 182RIG ; 1~112interestdependenton low cost. Balint, 298-2652. crowave oven, full-size, 700 watts, board, dresser, bookcase, mattress, $3,195. Barber, 884-4969. cost. Shapnek, 281 -5913. MOTHER'S ANTIQUE RED OAK temperature probe, programmable, box spring, excellent condition, 74 VW SUPER BEETLE, 6K miles on r&• ROOMMATE to share 2-bdr. house, non• DRESSER, w!beveled mirror, $265; hardly used, $100. Olsen, 294-2333 $1,200 retail, sell for $350 firm. built engine, new brakes, interior in smoker, $230/mo plus 112 utilities. In• VICtorian 4-drawer chest, $225; both ZENITH VCR, remote control, maint&• James, 294-6837. excellent condition. Peters, 294-Q363 dian School & Pennsylvania area; 080. Ramel, 821-0475. n~ce certificate, practically new, hard• JENNY LIND CRIB, $40; car seat, $10; after 5 p.m. Chev. truck rims, chromed. Golden, TAIL GATE, 5th wheel Flo Thru, for Ford ly used, $250. Misak, 892-3033 booster seat, $5. Montoya, 821-5189. '80 TOYOTA COROLLA STATION WAG• 299-1274. '87-'91 . BiHmaier, 296-6332. LOWREY ORGAN, in perfect condition, KENMORE REFRIGERATOR, ice-mak• ON, 135K miles, runs well, $1,000. TRAILER, enclosed, utility, lockable & FREEZER, Kenmore, 20 cu . ft., upright, $450 OBO, call for appointment. er, $110; queen-size waterbed, book• Chow, 281 -9235. weather-tight, approx. 5 x 8. Skogrno, excellent condition, '78 or '79 model, Tedesco, 888-1068. case headboard, $100; round kitchen '79 MERCEDES 450 SLC, cream, 292-9n3. $150. Kadlec, 299-2034. COAT, size 14, red wool, 3/4-length, table, w/4 chairs, $75. Johnson, wlleather interior, V-8, AT, PS, PB, CHILD'S MOTORCYCLE HELMET; Sport• LITION MICROWAVE, $45; aoss-country broad shoulders, w/genuine black• 898-5962. power sunroof, garaged. Wilson, star disc brake front end. Souther, skis, $45/$30; RC model battery leather inserts, very striking, new. MINOLTA MAXXUM 7000i, w/3200i 884-3128. 281-3465. charger, $20; controHer, $18; Marchal Sons, 889-0496 flash, AF zoom 35-SOmm, haze filter, '61 CORVAIR STATION WAGON, $250 CHILD'S CLIMBING TOYS, such as Little lights, $20. Dietz, 821-3903. WATERBED, queen-size, w/underdresser portrait card, close-up card, case, 080; Toyota R-20 Engine, $100; Cor• Tykes Gym or Treehouse, also out• HIDE-A-BED COUCH, $100; complete & linens, $150; skis, $25. Mozley, photo bag, reasonable offer. Hudson, vair parts car, $200 OBO. Mozley, door swing. Chow, 281 -9235. king-size water bed, $1 00; two liv• 884-3453. 821-3968. 884-3453. QUEEN-SIZE WATERBED, semiwave• ing room chairs, $40 each. Tipton, SOFA. off-white, $45; table & chairs, $30; DIAMOND SOLITAIRE, .67KT, set in '82 BMW 320, runs great, sunroof, AM/FM less, oak, in good condition. Hovorka, 293-9285. papasan chair, like new, $65. Howard, 18CT gold, 2-10CT gold bands, ap• cassette stereo, new tires, $3,500 294-6981 , leave message. NIKON EM CAMERA, 35mm, Vivitar 839-9203. praised at more than $3,000, asking 080. Howard, 839-9203. flash, original manual, $165. Wrons, LIVING ROOM CHAIRS (2), gold, asking $1,500. McKeever, 299-4050. 78 MAZDA GLC, looks bad, runs well, un• 275-Q856. $30 for both. Campbell, 888-3135. WORK WANTED KITCHEN TABLE, on brass pedestal, 45- der 100K miles, $700. Criel, 821-5932. COMPAQ DESKPRO COMPUTER, 640 BEDROOM FURNISHINGS: light wood, in., glass, square w/rounded corners, '85 JEEP CHEROKEE, 4x4, 4-dr., 5-spd., KB, 20MB hard disk, 360KB floppy 6-drawer dresser & matching book• 4 upholstered chairs, $150. Raines, AC, white, 85K miles, $5,500. Kolb, BABYSITIING JOBS WANTED for sev• drive, w/Princeton EGA!CGA color case, $150/set; twin mattress & 275-5854. 271-1775. enth grader who has completed monitor, $500. Smith, 243-Q714. springs, excellent condition, $75/set. KEYSTONE CHROME RIMS, locks, nuts, 79 MONTE CARLO, 1 owner, 50K miles, American Red Cross course. Geer, WOMAN'S SKI BOOTS, size 8-1/2; Abel296-6089. & caps, 14x7s, 5-3/4-in., for all GM V-8, AT, AC, PS, PB, AMIFM cassette, 265-2094. Christmas tree stand; side-view mir• AT&T 6300 COMPUTER, w/dual floppy & products, $125 for all 4. Gutierrez, clean, $2,300. White, 294-5692. rors for trailer towing ; lavatory laucet; monitor, keyboard, MS/DOS & Multi• 865-9542. '80 BUICK SKYLARK, 2.5L, standard 4- National Geographic magazines; mate word-processing software, $275. SKIS: K2 207cm, GS-Eiectra, $20; Bliz• spd., AC, PS, PB, PL, good condi• SHARE-A-RIDE doors. Moss, 298-2643. Shunny, 265-1620. zard Fans, 150cm, w/Salomon 101 tion, $1,800; 1 0-speed bike, $40. EXERCYCLE, Bollinger Ergometer, PANASONIC VCR, VHS, needs service; bindings, $15; Equipe STX, 170cm, Puccini, 821-3171 or 255-Q568. w/speedometer, odometer, timer, & 40- TEAC cassette deck, Kenwood receiv• CORRALES & RIO RANCHO VANPOOL $15. Johnson,898-7244. GIRL'S BICYCLE, pink, 20-in. wheels, lb. flywheel, excellent condition, cost er, both very good condition; each $70 has openings for full-time & part-time FREEZER, 18.5 cu . ft., chest-type, 4-112 knobby tires, coaster brakes, padded $177, will sell for $75. Bear, 881-7128. 080. Baldwin, 822-1860. riders, don't fight the snow & traffic, yrs. old, $175. Parker, 292-8150 or handlebars & center bar, in almost• SKI RACK, Barrecrafter, $25; tire chains, WATERBED MATTRESS, 8-in. fiber• take the van pool. Duran (891 -3251) or 293-3955. new condition, $60. Becker, 821-4494. $10; bicycle carrier, bumper, $10. filled super waveless, like new, fits Boatman (892-3570). BEDROOM FURNITURE: black lacquer, BRIDGESTONE BICYCLE, 10-spd., Madsen, 294-3235. California King frame, includes liner, queen/lull headboard & rails, 6-drawer professional road bike, w/28-in. di• SCANDINAVIAN FURNITURE: combina• heater, & accessories, $150. Horton, dresser w/mirror, 2 bedside tables. am. wheels, $100 080. Schneider, tion desk & bookshelf, $400; dining 266-4233. Pantuso, 892-3641 . 299-6243. table, 4 chairs, $300; sideboard w!kJw• MICROWAVE OVEN, Litton, digital NORDICTRACK SKI EXERCISE MA• SCHWINN BICYCLE, new, wl1ess than er/upper sections; $250. Teak. touch control, 1.2 cu.ft., $125. Miller, CHINE, Model 505, $400. Lorence, 20 miles, 12-spd., aqua blue. White, Louden, 256-3684. 268-5992. 275-3586. 839-0602. LAB NEWS • December 6, 1991 • Page 1\Yelve

coronadoCiubActivities Take Note UNM is again offering "Entrepreneurial This Month, You Gotta Wait Until You're Invited Engineering" (ME 456) in the spring semester. THE CLUB WILL be occupied by private swinging music of Orlie Saavedra and his Big Working engineers and graduate and senior engi• parties most Friday evenings this month. The only Band. The enjoyment starts with dinner from 7 to neering students take the course. The class works exception: Dec. 20, a Cowboy Christmas Party 9 p.m., and the band plays from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in teams, usually starting four new businesses with the Isleta Poor Boys. Come on out for loads The price of $35 per couple (members; non-mem• each semester. Staff members with technical or of good eats that chuckwagon cooks never ber guests are $55 per couple) also includes a bot• business backgrounds who have in mind possible dreamed of, and lots of high-stepping music. tle of champagne, a continental breakfast at 12:30 business developments are especially invited to Reservations are required, and the wise will make a.m., and plenty of noisemakers to bring in the enroll. The class meets on Tuesdays beginning them soon by dialing 265-6791. new year. Tickets are going fast - get yours at the Jan. 21 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the UNM Me• Club now! chanical Engineering Building, Rrn 218. Enroll• NO SUBORDINATE CLAUSES, but both ment must be completed in the Student Services Santa and the Mrs. will be at the Club Saturday NOW FOR SOMETHING completely differ• Building Registration Center (telephone 277- morning, Dec. 14, from 9 to noon. The kids will ent, especially different from sitting home Tues• 5548) by Jan. 24. Cost for the three-unit class is love the cartoons and the goodies, not to mention days wishing there were election returns to watch: $194.25. For more information, call Prof. Bill the 10 a.m. performance of Robbie Weinstein in Drop in for a Drop-In Tuesday at the Club. Games Gross on 277-6297. "Flights of Fancy." It's free for the kids, and and more games, from darts to ping-pong to cards *** there's free coffee for the adults. to dominos to who knows - even tennis, if you're For the fifth year, KGGM TV-13 and United up to it. It all goes on from 4:30 to 9 p.m. every Way of Greater Albuquerque are sponsoring the HERE'S THE LOWDOWN on New Year's Tuesday. For a group of four or more, a pitcher of Holiday Sharing Center, which accepts donations Eve- You can enjoy a dinner of roast prime rib beer or soda is half price. All non-alcoholic drinks and volunteers through Dec. 21. The Holiday of beef and shrimp scampi, and you might feel a are also half price. Bring your friends, meet your Sharing Center accepts food, clothing, and toys, swoon coming on when you hear the sweet, friends, or make some new friends! but the primary purpose is for people to share their time and talents with others. In the past people have participated by writing holiday cards for the Events Calendar elderly; decorated trees for shut-ins; played Santa or Mrs. Santa for kids in hospitals; served meals Events Calendar items are gathered from var• Dec. 12 -Hispanic Culture Foundation QuiD• at food lines for the homeless; played musical in• ious sources. Readers should confirm times and centennial Lecture Series: Thomas Chavez speak• struments for senior centers, non-profit agencies, dates of interest whenever possible. ing about "Spain and the American Revolution"; 7 and hospitals; and many other things. Volunteers Dec. 6-8 -Arts and crafts exhibit, "Ye Merry p.m., South Broadway Cultural Center, 848-1320. may call the Center on 768-1077, Monday through Olde Christmas Faire," featuring storefronts, Dec. 13-15- "Navidad Flamenca," a fla• Friday, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Santa, carolers, and music in the style of Charles menco dance drama presented by Pablo Rodarte Dickens; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., and Dance Espana; 8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 2 p.m. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun.; State Fairgrounds, 296-1491. Sun.; Rodey Theatre, 277-4402. Dec. 6-21 - "Burn This," New Mexico Dec.l3-15- Magica Play, Children's Christ• Fun& Games Repertory Theatre presentation of a love story by mas play; 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. & Sun.; Bridge - The Sandia Bridge Club plays Lanford Witson about contemporary New Yorkers South Broadway Cultural Center, 848-1320. bridge Thursday nights at 7 in the Coronado Club (adult theme and language); 8 p.m. Tues.-Sat., Dec. 14-15- Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair, Eldorado Room. Individual players, pairs, or 2 p.m. Sat. & Sun.; KiMo Theatre, 243-4500. sponsored by the Westside Crafters Guild, hand• groups - as well as players new to the game and Dec. 6-21 -"A Christmas Carol," by Charles made holiday gift items made by more than 50 experienced duplicate players - are welcome to Dickens, adapted by Richard Jones; 8 p.m. Fri. & local crafters; 9 a.m.-5 p.m., free, St. Pius High join. A $1-per-player fee is returned as prizes. Stop Sat., 2 p.m. Sun.; Albuquerque Little Theatre, School gym (Coors Road & St. Joseph's Place by the Coronado Club on a Thursday evening or 242-4750. NW), 821-4703. call Jim Kwak (4341) on 294-2524. The bridge Dec. 6-22 -"The Gifts of the Magi," a musi• Dec. 15- "As It Fell on a Holie Eve," Mu• club is a Sandia Employees Recreation Program cal adaptation of the short story by 0. Henry; 7:30 sica Antigua de Albuquerque concert of medieval activity open to all those eligible for SERP. p.m. Fri., 2 p.m. and 7:30p.m. Sat., 6 p.m. Sun.; and renaissance music with voices and authentic *** The Vortex Theatre, 247-8600. instruments; 4 p.m., Central United Methodist Cross-Country Skiing- Retiree John Shunoy Dec. 6-22 -Exhibit, "Cows," everything you Church (1615 Copper NE), 842-9613. is again teaching cross-country skiing for the wanted to see and hear bovine; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 20-22 -"Christmas Joy," collection of Sandia Employee Recreation Program (SERP). A Tues.-Fri., 5-9 p.m. Tues.; study gallery, UNM Art dances celebrating the true meaning of Christmas, lesson consists of a morning of demonstrations Museum,277-4001. staged by the Performers Ballet and Jazz Com• and learning on the snow just below Sandia Crest; Dec. 6-22 -Exhibit, "An American in Italy: pany; 7:30 Fri. & Sat., 3:30p.m. Sun.; Rodey The• in the afternoon after lunch the group goes on a Photographs of Thscany by Bill Adams," history and atre, 293-9432 or 275-3308. gentle ski tour on a cross-country ski trail in the archaeology of ancient hill towns in the Val di Chi• Dec. 31-Jan. 1 - Make-A-Wish Charity woods. The lesson costs $16. A rental package• ana; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.-Fri., 5-9 p.m. Tues.; Van Team Roping, rodeo-style competition benefiting skis, poles, and boots -is available for $8 plus Deren Coke Gallery, UNM Art Museum, 277-4001. the Make-A-Wish Foundation; starts 8 a.m. tax. Call the SERP office to schedule your lesson. Dec. 6-Jan. 9- Exhibit, "The Sagebrush Tues., 10 a.m. Wed.; State Fairgrounds, 265-1791. Snow permitting, lessons are held every Saturday. Ocean," more than 60 Cibachrome color and black & white prints by author and photographer Stephen Trimble, based on his book The Sage• LEARNING to treat multi• brush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great ple-injury victims in a Basin, shows wide range of desert ecosystems disaster are (from left} Kay from salt-encrusted dry lake beds to 13,000-ft. Dannis and Rae Duffus, two alpine peaks, a map, and text excerpts from the Sandia registered nurses acting as victims and at the book; 9 a.m.-5 p.m., New Mexico Museum of same time showing Bobbie Natural History and Science, 841-8837. Vital (5311) where to find Dec. 6-Jan. 10- Exhibit, "Abstract Art: A pressure points for stopping Manifesto of Liberation," presentation of art from the flow of blood from a the ' 30s that emphasizes spiritual liberation wound. The three attended through color and non-objective form; 9 a.m.- a START (Simple Triage 4 p.m. Tues.-Fri., 5-9 p.m. Tues.; UNM Jonson and Rapid Treatment} class Gallery, 277-4967. sponsored by Medical Div. Dec. 6-Feb. 9- Exhibit, "USS New Mexico 8527 (Livermore} and taught Battleship," in commemoration of the 50th an• by Nita Archaumbault (8527). niversary of World War II to honor veterans from To make conditions more all branches of the service, sponsored by the Navy realistic, victims pretended League of the United States and the Albuquerque to be in great pain and were Museum; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thes.-Sun.; Albuquerque smeared with fake blood. Museum of Art, History, and Science, 243-7255. Livermore Sandians are en• Dec. 6-Feb. 9- Exhibit, "Horse Tales: An couraged to sign up for fu• Evolutionary Odyssey"; 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Museum of ture classes through the Natural History and Science, 841-8837. Medical Division.