Uh oh...more nonsense from Sandia:
http://krqe.com/2014/04/25/sandia-national-labs-develops-sperm-quality-test/
http://krqe.com/2014/04/25/sandia-national-labs-develops-sperm-quality-test/
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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http://www.abqjournal.com/389475/news/men-can-test-fertility-at-home.html
This is work being done by a private company founded by former Sandians who licensed technology which had been developed at Sandia to create an instrument that would allow first responders to rapidly detect toxins, radiation or other biological agents in emergency situations.
Still waiting for something useful to license out of LLNL.
Two recently-discussed examples:
Dyna3D was spun off from LLNL's code development, and is now the defacto standard for high-deformation analysis in the auto industry.
Laser peening was also spun off from LLNL, and is now used to strengthen the blades of most turbines, especially jet engines for passenger planes.
You can look both of these up easily.
But in truth, good job to any of the labs when there is something worthwhile to spin off into the private sector!