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Seven Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2019 Laboratory Fellows
Brian Albright, Patrick Chain, Dana Dattelbaum, Michael Hamada, Anna Hayes-Sterbenz, Michael Prime and Laura Smilowitz become part of a prestigious fellowship 10/16/19
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Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers discover a new approach for capturing energy from light-generated, ‘hot’ electrons, avoiding wasteful heat loss 10/7/19
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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
Researchers develop software for complex CO2 capture, transport and storage infrastructure
The software is already being widely used by a variety of industry, government and research projects after being released in January 2018 - 8/21/19
ALFa LDS: Autonomous, Low-Cost, Fast Leak Detection System
ALFa LDS is an affordable, robust, autonomous system for the detection of natural gas leaks - 7/10/19
Managers from Global Security and Weapons delve into criticality safety training
The class highlighted the physics of criticality using tangible demonstrations with real material - 6/20/19
Rapid detection of bacteremia in human blood
Research from Los Alamos indicates that there may be a way to greatly speed up diagnosis - 5/16/19
Balancing the load
Lab researchers have developed code to distribute computation more efficiently and across increasing numbers of supercomputer processors - 4/18/19
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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
63% Weapons programs
9% Nonproliferation programs
5% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
2% Energy and other programs
10% Work for Others
(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
