National Science Foundation Just Screwed an entire generation of PhD students

 This is an interesting video, a graduate student who is angry at the government since NSF funding has been cut. In his own words, he is "pissed off" because graduate students were "blindsided" and "screwed over" by "having the rug pulled out from under them".

https://youtu.be/pI83VnkV0iQ?si=rJ2GRUc4b4QQXyaE

Albuquerque,NM, gets new energy lab.

 ABQ ( Albuquerque,NM) gets new energy lab.

Pacific fusion has selected Albuquerque NM for its new $1 billion fusion research and manufacturing campus.

 https://www.abqjournal.com/business/article_354dbfa4-79f6-48f4-87c2-6fda68367881.html

Anti- fascists: trump's enemy

 Well, Trump just declared "an idea" as a terrorists threat!

Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanism

Impact of fewer H1B1 visas

 Will decreasing international students and new H1B1 visas rule cause issues at the NNSA labs. This could cripple the high tech job market and STEM research so no matter what this will directly or indirectly cause big issues at NNSA labs.

Kaku sums this up.
The fact is that the U.S. might be a dynamo for capital but not when it comes to what economists crudely call “human capital.” The point applies not only to immigrant workers who do jobs Americans won’t, but also those who do jobs Americans can’t, because, as physicist Michio Kaku argues above, “the United States has the worst educational system known to science.” Were it solely up to U.S. graduates, the scientific establishment and tech economy would collapse, he says, “forget about Google, forget about Silicon Valley. There would be no Silicon Valley.” Instead, U.S. science and tech thrive because of immigrants who come on H‑1B visas.

https://www.statista.com/topics/13734/international-students-in-the-united-states/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/26/politics/video/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-immigration-h1b-republican-src-digvid

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/26/politics/video/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-immigration-h1b-republican-src-digvid

Biotech startup closer to resurrecting the dodo bird

 The Dodo bird is being brought back from extinction:

https://gizmodo.com/iotech-startup-claims-its-getting-closer-to-resurrecting-the-extinct-dodo-2000660052

Major nuclear power deals

 U.S. and Britain to sign flurry of major nuclear power deals during Trump’s state visit

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/trump-visit-us-and-britain-to-sign-major-new-nuclear-power-pact.html

US losing ground

 https://www.nature.com/nature-index/research-leaders/2025/nature-index-2025-research-leaders-united-states-losing-ground-as-chinas-lead-expands-rapidly.html

Although the latest data predate the current Trump administration, observers warn that funding cuts will accelerate the rate of China’s gain.

You can say what you want about Trumps cuts which are bad to science but even before Trump we have seen declining science at the labs.

Nuclear waste may be used as fuel

 Converting Nuclear waste into tritium fuel for power plants.

Research out of LANL, maybe a good project to build at the WIPP, Yucca mountain or INL.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/nuclear-waste-might-one-day-be-used-to-create-tritium-to-fuel-fusion-power-plants/4022134.article

Rock on Mars is evidence of life

 This is interesting, it is a NASA press conference from earlier this week discussing the rock samples which are possibly deposits from ancient microbial life on Mars:

https://youtu.be/sIUqvXSSAxw?si=pJN2r06Xmjwv-mCO

Is civil war imminent?

 So on this blog in the past there has been a few mentions of America heading into some type of Civil war. This was usually dismissed but now even the most naive have to start thinking that something is seriously wrong. I am not sure about Civil war but some kind social break down, break up of the nation or something is looking like a real possibility. If that is the case what happens to the labs?

Is Hanford waste isolation pilot plant being axed?

 Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued a statement on September 9 denying reports that the Department of Energy plans to terminate the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site in Washington state

Has anyone been following this story?

https://www.ans.org/news/2025-09-11/article-7360/wright-denies-reports-of-doe-plans-to-axe-hanfords-wtp/

Pentagon gone haywire?

 Video shown in House hearing appears to show a missile hitting a UAP

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mCaSBrLMLTg&pp=ygUcdmlkZW8gc2hvd24gbWlzc2lsZSBuYmMgbmV3cw%3D%3D

Chris Wright is executing project 2025 really well!

 According to the AP, the DOE secretary picked his own climate science review team. Scientists said this is against the law. 

Inaccuracies all over the place!

This is becoming commonplace in the trump regime. DOE is becoming like RFK's HHS.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/scientists-slam-inaccuracies-in-doe-climate-change-report/

Fusion news

LLNL made a fusion breakthrough. Now, a startup company wants to make it into a power plant.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91394154/a-national-lab-made-a-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-a-new-startup-wants-to-make-it-into-a-power-plant