Los Alamos National Laboratory
August
Research project aims to create affordable biofuels by 2019
Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with the Colorado School of Mine and Reliance Industries, has received nearly $9 million in funding from the DOE for Producing Algae and Co-Products for Energy (PACE). - 8/16/15
Schoenborn wins Bau Neutron Award
The American Crystallographic Association (ACA) has selected retired Laboratory Senior Fellow Benno Schoenborn to receive the 2016 Bau Neutron Diffraction Award. - 8/12/15
Researchers simulate helium bubble behavior in fusion reactors
They performed simulations to understand how tungsten behaves in the presence of implanted helium that forms bubbles in the material. - 8/4/15
Science Briefs - 2015
Fast Facts
Total employees: 11,300
Los Alamos National Security, LLC: 8,150
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 300
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 425
Students: 1,100
Unionized craft workers: 980
Post doctoral researchers: 375
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 40 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
63% Weapons programs
9% Nonproliferation programs
5% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
2% Energy and other programs
10% Work for Others
40% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 45
67% male, 33% female
46% minorities
66% university degrees
29% hold undergraduate degrees
17% hold master’s degrees
20% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
8 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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