"In signing the contracts to proceed with construction of the NBAF's Central Utility Plant, DHS is confirming their commitment to moving forward with construction of the laboratory facility itself, " Brownback said in a release.
That is 400 times the accepted limit in Holland, say scientists at a Dutch laboratory, the nearest facility that could test for dioxins and related chemicals. (The tainted fat was also found to contain 781 parts per trillion of dioxin - 1, 500 times higher than the Dutch safe level.) That was then.
The 6, 500 sq ft facility includes a laboratory and office suite.
The group targets Britain's Huntingdon Life Sciences Laboratory, which has an American facility in East Millstone, New Jersey.
So-called laboratory-developed tests, performed at a single facility with proven technical expertise, historically haven't required clearance, a policy the agency is reviewing in light of the new wave of complex genomic tests.
The U.K. company AWE and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have joined-forces with the National Ignition Facility in the U.S. to help provide energy using Inertial Confinement Fusion, in which a pellet of fuel is heated using powerful lasers.
It is converting a fermentation plant in Florida into a test facility to see if what works in the laboratory will work at scale.
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The project has been drawn up to capitalise on another project at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2004 with the mission of providing leadership computing for scientists working on some of the world's most pressing problems.
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In their laboratory his team has set up a one-gallon-a-day production facility, which uses between 19kg and 26kg of coffee grounds.
Professor Stefano Ragazzi, director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, hopes that the first glimpse of dark matter will be in his research facility.
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To demonstrate the vulnerability, the Department of Homeland Security and Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls recently showed reporters a cyberattack on a mock-up of a chemical facility.
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