People

Total employees: 11,738, including approximately:

• Los Alamos National Security, LLC: 8,324
• Centerra-LA (Guard Force): 268
• Contractors: 516
• Students: 1,191
• Unionized craft workers: 1,047
• Post doctoral researchers: 392

Budget

Approx. $2.55 billion

• 65% Weapons programs
• 7% Nonproliferation programs
• 5% Safeguards and Security
• 7% Environmental Management
• 4% DOE Office of Science
• 2% Energy and other programs
• 10% Work for Others

Place

Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on about 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property

More than 1,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8.2 million square feet under roof, including

• 1,000 buildings
  (13 nuclear facilities)
• 268 miles of roads
  (100 paved)
• 198 miles of primary and
  secondary electrical lines
• 57 miles of gas lines
• power plant

Replacement value of $14.2 billion

Workforce

LANS and students only:
39% of employees live in Los Alamos; remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos, Albuquerque

Average Age: 45

• 67% male, 33% female
• 47% minorities
• 64% university degrees
• 28% hold undergraduate
  degrees
• 17% hold master’s degrees
• 19% have earned a PhD

Major Awards

• 145 R&D 100 awards since 1978
• 34 E. O. Lawrence Awards
• 9 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists & Engineers
• 3 Glenn T. Seaborg Awards
• The Edward Teller Medal
• The Nobel Prize in Physics: Frederick Reines

Albuquerque to
Los Alamos, NM

98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.

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