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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
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
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
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
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
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020

Los Alamos study hopes to characterize and optimize ventilator treatment for Covid-19
Scientists and engineers use computer modeling and experimental fluid mechanics to understand how tiny aerosol particles, when pulsed into the lung, may break up disease-related mucus and improve gas exchange - 12/21/20
New diagnostic isotope to enhance targeted alpha therapy for cancer
Team brings a new tool for alpha therapy by developing a paired isotope option for PET scans - 12/16/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory brings next-generation HPC to the fight against COVID-19
New capabilities will give scientists substantially higher supercomputing performance, further enabling critical research ranging from therapeutics design to modeling viral spread - 10/20/20
Role of amyloids in type II diabetes
A collaboration between Los Alamos, Yale University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute published research that sheds light on pathological properties of amyloids identified in type II diabetes. - 7/6/16
Retired supercomputers enable student research
Decommissioned supercomputers give systems researchers and students a one-of-a-kind, hands-on lab to learn computational science. - 10/20/12







