December
Bradbury Science Museum announces winter opening hours
Museum will be closed on Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year’s Day (January 1, 2011). - 12/21/10
LANL announces Top 10 science & technology developments of 2010
Top 10 developments based on major programmatic milestones, strategic potential, scholarly accounts, and associated news coverage. - 12/20/10
Lab scientists track Santa’s magical journey
Los Alamos trackers will use state-of-the-art technology to mark the course taken by Old St. Nick and his reindeer. - 12/20/10
Lab completes record year for environmental cleanup
Personnel conducted more field investigations and cleanup campaigns than ever and completed a record number of Lab shipments to WIPP. - 12/16/10
Research Library teams shares 2010 Digital Preservation Award
Winning for their development of Memento—a unique computer architecture that uses a basic feature embedded in the standard HTTP protocol to allow web browsers direct access to archived copies of web pages. - 12/15/10
LANL selects local small business for post-Recovery Act cleanup contract
Los Alamos Technical Associates to perform follow-on cleanup work through 2014 at the site of the world’s first large-scale plutonium processing lab. - 12/14/10
Los Alamos National Laboratory purchases nearly $1 billion in goods and services last fiscal year
The Laboratory also exceeded its goals for purchases made by small businesses in Northern New Mexico, the state and the country. - 12/6/10
Los Alamos Neutron Science Center gets capacity boost
The facility can simulate the effects of hundreds or thousands of years of cosmic-ray-induced neutrons in a single hour. - 12/2/10
Scientists ratchet up understanding of cellular protein factory
The research could aid in development of new antibiotics used to fight multidrug resistant superbugs such as MRSA found in many U.S. hospitals. - 12/2/10
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Total employees,
10,402
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,929
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 396
Contractors, 349
Students, 889
Post doctoral researchers, 427
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $9.8 billion
Budget
FY 2012: Approx. $2.2 billion
—57% Weapons programs
—9% Nonproliferation programs
—7% Safeguards and Security
—8% Environmental Management
—4% DOE Office of Science
—4% Energy and other programs
—11% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics
(LANS and students only)
34% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
—67%
male, 33% female
—44% minorities
—67% university degrees
—26% hold undergraduate degrees
—18% hold master’s degrees
—23% have earned a PhD
Major Awards
124 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
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Music and math at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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