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Los Alamos National Laboratory employees donate more than $20,000 to Santa Fe’s Food Depot for hunger relief across Northern New Mexico
Triad National Security contributes an additional $10,000 4/2/20
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High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory tests speed of light
Ultra-high energy gamma rays from the far reaches of the galaxy provide powerful proof that the predictions of relativity, including the constant speed of light, hold to the highest energy extremes yet probed 3/30/20
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Enlisting bacteria to make your nylon for you
A Los Alamos team, in collaboration with two other national laboratories, found a way to identify and delete three genes of the P. putida genes that were making the production of muconate difficult - 2/10/20
Los Alamos analysis of San Juan Generating Station carbon-capture study shows promise
A team of Los Alamos scientists and engineers conducted an independent assessment of a carbon-capture technology study on the San Juan Generating Station - 12/13/19
Understanding a viral explosion
Understanding the viral replication and dramatic growth that sometimes appears subsequent to ART treatment is the subject of a new study by scientists - 11/21/19
Global Security summer interns win Distinguished Student, Student Symposium and poster awards
As summer comes to a close, the Global Security directorate bids farewell to their summer interns and congratulates the winners, nominees and mentors - 10/2/19
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Total employees: 11,956
Triad National Security, LLC: 8,327
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 298
Compa, staff and support contractors: 513
Students: 1,368
Unionized craft workers: 1,050
Post doctoral researchers: 400
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
Actual FY19 funding:
66% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
5% Safeguards and Security
1% DOE Environmental Management
3% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
12% Strategic Partnerships
(Triad and students only)
37% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43.5
64% male, 36% female
44% minorities
64% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
18% have earned a PhD
137 R&D100
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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As of Dec. 6, 2018
