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People
Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 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
Budget
FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others
Demographics
Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD
Awards
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Directions
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020
Rough, tough and tiny - 6/3/21
ChemCam’s laser is back to firing - 5/28/21
TAMUS reports: Blow flies as environmental samplers - 5/25/21
Radioactivity in meteorites gives insight into the birth of the heavy elements - 4/27/21
TAMUS reports: Improving use of renewable energy sources in microgrids - 4/8/21
Preventing injection-induced earthquakes with 'fracture caging' - 4/2/21
A tool for modeling changes in sea ice - 3/22/21
TAMUS reports: Improving how metals withstand nuclear reactions - 3/17/21
Using light to ‘listen’ to magnetic monopoles in artificial spin ice - 3/2/21
Evelyn Mullen receives medal of commendation for service on Army Science Board - 2/4/21
DNA: Is that where we’ll be storing data next? - 2/3/21
Keepin Nonproliferation Program grad takes a closer look at nuclear forensics chemistry - 1/12/21
LANL-developed system offers better, faster, safer decontamination of surfaces - 1/6/21
Groundbreaking software helps tame blazes - 12/14/20
Most detailed mapping of virus “sugar shield” - 12/1/20
Los Alamos post-doctoral student wins Hydrogen & Fuel Cell award - 10/15/20
Hoffman wins DOE Early Career Research Award - 7/1/20
Special issue of Nuclear Technology dedicated to KRUSTY test - 6/30/20
Los Alamos software discovers new world-record lightning flashes - 6/29/20
OrganiCam will search for life in space - 6/23/20
New ultra-high-throughput capability for biocatalyst screening - 5/15/20
Groundbreaking actinide research: The discovery of unique metal–ligand bonding - 5/14/20
First restartable rocket motor to maneuver satellites in space - 5/13/20
New class of switchable explosive could revolutionize explosive safety - 5/12/20
Global Security Office collaborates with Weapons Program to develop next-gen DFEAT tool; receives DOE accolades - 4/13/20
Global Security team plays major role in recent launch of new GPS instrumentation - 4/13/20
A new, simple hydrogen approach is offering new opportunities to develop Ga2O3 as a material for bipolar transistors - 4/9/20
Advancing the art of the possible in remote sensing phenomena - 4/3/20
Enlisting bacteria to make your nylon for you - 2/10/20
Los Alamos analysis of San Juan Generating Station carbon-capture study shows promise - 12/13/19
Understanding a viral explosion - 11/21/19
Global Security summer interns win Distinguished Student, Student Symposium and poster awards - 10/2/19
Lab’s fuel cell knowledge tapped for surveys of catalyst technology - 10/1/19
Researchers develop software for complex CO2 capture, transport and storage infrastructure - 8/21/19
BOM: The next generation of high-performance explosives - 8/1/19
ALFa LDS: Autonomous, Low-Cost, Fast Leak Detection System - 7/10/19
Managers from Global Security and Weapons delve into criticality safety training - 6/20/19
Rapid detection of bacteremia in human blood - 5/16/19
New, smaller X-ray spectrometers developed - 4/23/19
Balancing the load - 4/18/19
Lebensohn honored by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society - 4/15/19
At the 2D scale, isotopic composition has unforeseen effects on light emission - 4/8/19
RETRO Rx: A new capability helping public health organizations - 3/29/19
Novel technology provides rapid and reliable outage assessments after natural disasters wreak havoc - 3/26/19
Sergei Tretiak honored as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry - 3/21/19
Pete Silks selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry - 1/31/19
Los Alamos pursues technology for more affordable fuel cell electric cars - 11/30/18
New web-based technology assesses health of civil, mechanical and aerospace structures - 10/29/18
Clues to creating an HIV vaccine: HIV sugars are key for effective immune responses - 10/23/18
State-of-the-art photocathodes grown on atomically thin layers of graphene - 10/11/18
Radiation Hardened Single-Board Computer for space applications - 10/5/18
Narrow-band single-photon emission through selective aryl functionalization of zigzag carbon nanotubes - 9/27/18
Aluminum triple bond made for first time - 9/27/18
New video highlights turbulence research essential to Lab mission - 9/11/18
Finding the infant massive black holes in the early universe - 9/10/18
Chemical selection of emission state configuration in a quantum-light emitter - 9/6/18
National Criticality Experiments Research Center - 9/5/18
Muon radiography verifies spent nuclear fuel in sealed casks - 8/29/18
Los Alamos National Laboratory's Discreet Oculus team recognized in DTRA’s Hyper Critical Campaign - 8/28/18
All-solid-state cryocooler becomes a reality - 8/21/18
ACCObeam technology produces novel collimated sound beam - 8/20/18
A new neural network approach for seismic event detection - 8/16/18
Multipoint satellite observations provide insight into the origins of substorms - 8/16/18
Fields of dreams: Magnetic stresses on cuprate superconductor show unique conductivity - 8/3/18
Los Alamos simulation tests innovative cancer treatment approach - 7/25/18
Laboratory lands 2018 DOE Energy Frontier Research Center - 7/24/18
Chikungunya challenge gets a close review by Los Alamos experts - 7/24/18
Shining light on excited-state dynamics in perovskite materials - 7/17/18
Coherent exciton-vibrational dynamics and energy transfer in conjugated organics - 7/3/18
NNSA awards Los Alamos National Laboratory management & operating contract - 6/8/18
Los Alamos OSRP team recognized with Hodes Award 2018 - 6/5/18
American Indian Science and Engineering Society recognizes Los Alamos as top employer - 5/16/18
Leadership changes at the G.T. Seaborg Institute - 4/25/18
David Fry named as a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing - 4/4/18
Novel long range wireless sensor network monitors remote areas - 3/29/18
Brenda Dingus receives Mexican Physical Society Medal - 3/26/18
A short history of women at Los Alamos - 3/22/18
Los Alamos machine learning discovers patterns that reveal earthquake fault behavior - 3/20/18
Arthur Voter receives American Chemical Society Award - 3/19/18
Anderson-Cook chosen for American Society of Quality’s Shewhart Medal - 3/19/18
Lighthouse directional radiation detectors: Proof positive in radiation detection - 3/8/18
Submit LANSCE proposals by March 2 - 2/8/18
Conduct research at Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) - 2/7/18
Los Alamos sensors watch for potential nuclear explosions - 1/31/18
Chen honored as Fellow of The Optical Society - 12/15/17
Joanne Wendelberger receives the William G. Hunter Award - 11/14/17
Los Alamos National Laboratory receives honors in 2017 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards - 11/14/17
Helium channels in nanocomposites could be game changers - 11/13/17
Modeling deep water three-dimensional upwelling pathways in the Southern Ocean - 11/7/17
Gordon named Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow - 10/30/17
Rusty Gray elected to National Academy of Engineering - 10/26/17
Electrochemical Society honors Kreller - 10/23/17
Muon detector developed for subsurface borehole imaging - 9/20/17
Keeping an eye on smoky skies - 9/12/17
Rangachary Mukundan named Electrochemical Society Fellow - 9/8/17
Snelson, Viswanathan and Wohletz named Geological Society of America Fellows - 8/31/17
HIV persists in macrophages during antiretroviral therapy - 8/22/17
Field experiment reveals tree hydraulic acclimation partially mitigates effects of warming and drought - 8/15/17
Hamada named Fellow of the American Society for Quality - 8/7/17
Digging into the details of uranium dioxide for nuclear fuel - 7/27/17
Mimicking bacterial photosynthetic structure for energy applications - 7/12/17
Foley and Brown honored by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society - 6/21/17
El Niños likely to help drive Antarctic melt - 6/19/17
Evaluating risk for Zika, chikungunya virus transmission across eastern states - 5/25/17
Mara honored with a Young Researcher award - 5/3/17
Tenner honored with Department of Homeland Security Early Career Award - 4/12/17
Risk analysis for CO2 sequestration at enhanced oil recovery sites - 3/28/17
Echo software revolutionizes data analysis - 3/16/17
Bose-Einstein condensate observed in room-temperature experiment - 3/8/17
Pilania awarded Humboldt Research Foundation Fellowship - 2/13/17
Narrowing the search for new materials - 2/7/17
Livescu named AIAA Associate Fellow - 1/18/17
Imaging the operation of high explosive detonators - 1/17/17
You think the reference in that online article links to what the author referenced? Think again! - 1/5/17
In the quest for the origin of the elements, it helps to know where to look - 1/5/17
Self-assembly approach to engineer nanoscale metamaterials discovered - 1/4/17
Solar cell material is self-healing - 1/4/17
