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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
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A year in, let's take stock of pandemic lessons - 3/27/21
How single particles of light can protect power grids - 3/24/21
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Bridge the knowledge-to-action gap to fight the next outbreak now - 3/19/21
Hydrogen may power the future of commercial trucking - 3/14/21
Finding the needles in ‘big data’ haystacks - 3/7/21
‘Digital head’ helps diagnose traumatic brain injuries - 2/14/21
How to see in the dark—and why we need to - 1/26/21
Are visualizations the future of science? - 1/24/21
COVID-19 vaccine critical but it's not silver bullet - 1/5/21
LANL-developed technology offers promise of safer X-rays - 1/3/21
Lack of sleep could be a problem for AIs - 12/8/20
For LANL, preserving our state is a personal mission - 11/29/20
Speeding up the development of new materials - 11/29/20
Science can help ease local wildfire threats - 10/31/20
A better way to search for traces of life on Mars — and beyond! - 9/29/20
Opening a window to quantum weirdness - 9/27/20
The quantum butterfly non-effect - 9/21/20
New topical antiseptic kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria - 9/6/20
Three big threats to satellites — and what to do about them (op-ed) - 8/27/20
Going with the flow: Computer tool tracks water’s changing impact in the warming Arctic - 8/16/20
Finding new ways to keep the land alive - 8/2/20
At Los Alamos, making science fiction a reality - 8/2/20
New Mars rover, with LANL components, to search for life - 7/19/20
Low-cost quantum dot windows could power a solar future - 6/21/20
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AI pinpoints renewable energy resources - 4/5/20
Expedition drifts in the Arctic ice to study climate - 2/16/20
Carbon capture: Solved by software? - 1/23/20
Unraveling the mysteries of the tiniest living things - 11/24/19
Precise proton beam takes aim at cancer - 11/10/19
LANL protects milkweed to preserve monarchs - 10/27/19
At LANL, breaking down data to address global problems - 10/13/19
Making a material difference - 9/22/19
Beetles and piñons shed light on world’s ecology - 9/15/19
Welcome to nuclear inspector school - 9/1/19
A missing link in predicting hurricane damage - 8/30/19
Fighting wildfires with computer models - 8/27/19
Preparing the quantum workforce of the future - 8/11/19
Did life sign the guestbook on Mars? - 7/18/19
Los Alamos scientists school Wikipedia about women in science - 7/13/19
Using algae to try and solve the plastic problem - 7/8/19
The problem with quantum computers - 6/10/19
Reaping the unexpected dividends of space exploration - 6/10/19
You can’t see it, but it’s 200+ times stronger than steel - 6/2/19
Basic quantum research will transform science, industry - 5/17/19
Helping health workers understand unfolding disease outbreaks - 4/28/19
The hidden seismic symphony in earthquake signals - 4/25/19
Unlocking secrets about the origin of the universe - 4/15/19
How big data can help save the world - 3/27/19
New system to check for dangerous natural gas leaks - 3/24/19
Healthy forests depend on balancing fire and water - 3/11/19
Modeling natural disasters to strengthen power grids - 2/17/19
Doing work that matters at Los Alamos - 1/26/19
Five cool things you can do with an ‘atom smasher’ - 1/14/19
Sea ice: More than just frozen water - 12/16/18
What happens when an explosive is detonated? - 11/30/18
Modeling a better burn to boost engine performance - 11/14/18
Using sound to see through solid objects - 11/11/18
America must invest in R and D, personnel for arms control verification - 10/26/18
Catching hackers in the act - 10/7/18
Build small nuclear reactors for battlefield power - 9/20/18
LANL shoots for the moon in search for life on Europa - 9/9/18
Are we ready for the future of warfare? - 9/4/18
Why we need active experiments in space - 8/31/18
New approach to extracting fossil fuels has benefits - 8/30/18
Stemming the spread of HIV by accurately predicting its spread - 8/1/18
Targeted radioactive treatment offers promise in curing cancer - 7/8/18
Using 1 trillion files helps scientist find a needle in a haystack - 6/22/18
LRWSN-hardware: The Long-range Wireless Sensor Network hardware - 5/13/18
Nipping frost in the bud - 4/27/18
Supercomputers tackle antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ - 4/25/18
Going with the gut - 4/17/18
Preventing a cyber zombie apocalypse - 4/8/18
A slow neutron beats a flipping fast bit - 3/23/18
SMART cables: A new undersea look at earthquakes - 3/11/18
Computers learn to imagine the future - 2/28/18
Using poop to cure gut infections - 2/23/18
Forecasting diseases one image at a time - 2/21/18
Augmented reality combines worlds to make the real world safer - 2/12/18
How a Small Nuclear Reactor Could Power a Colony on Mars or Beyond (Op-Ed) - 1/18/18
Supercomputers tackle antibiotic resistance - 1/7/18
