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Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers
Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and structures in the earth 4/18/19
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Los Alamos waste shipment successfully completed at WIPP
First shipment in five years 4/12/19
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Lab researchers have developed code to distribute computation more efficiently and across increasing numbers of supercomputer processors - 4/18/19
RETRO Rx: A new capability helping public health organizations
New capability helps public health organizations predict, prepare, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. - 3/29/19
Pete Silks selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry Fellows program recognizes scientists for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to chemical sciences, the profession and the Society - 1/31/19
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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
