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DOE issues RFQ for clean-energy projects at WIPP
The Department of Energy has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties that are looking to establish carbon pollution–free electricity (CFE) projects at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico.
B. J. Archer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 207 | Number 1 | December 2021 | Pages S190-S203
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1940060
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This paper describes the history of the computing facility at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, 1944 to 1946. While the hand computations are briefly discussed, the paper’s main focus is on the IBM Punch-Card Accounting Machines (PCAMs). During World War II, the Los Alamos facility was one of the most advanced PCAM facilities, both in the machines and in the problems being solved.