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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 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
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
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 Dec. 6, 2018
You can’t see it, but it’s 200+ times stronger than steel
Atomic armor coating extends the lifetime of devices by making them much more rugged in even the most extreme environments.
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Reaping the unexpected dividends of space exploration
Space science has likewise yielded unexpected discoveries and unintended applications — some at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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The problem with quantum computers
It’s called decoherence—but while a breakthrough solution seems years away, there are ways of getting around it
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Basic quantum research will transform science, industry
All most people hear about is quantum computing, but that's hardly the whole story
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Helping health workers understand unfolding disease outbreaks
This is the plan for a web-based disease-outbreak tool developed at Los Alamos, a quick analysis resource called AIDO (“I-do”) for Analytics for Investigation of Disease Outbreaks.
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The hidden seismic symphony in earthquake signals
Machine learning can reveal acoustic vibrations that could improve forecasting
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Unlocking secrets about the origin of the universe
Los Alamos researchers are contributing to the project by designing an advanced tracking detector based on a new type of sensor system called MAPS
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How big data can help save the world
Emerging analytic and computing tools are enabling much better use of huge data sets
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New system to check for dangerous natural gas leaks
A team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Aeris Technology and Rice University has developed the Autonomous, Low- cost, Fast Leak Detection System (ALFaLDS) to detect, locate and quantify leaks quickly, safely and inexpensively.
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Healthy forests depend on balancing fire and water
To unravel exactly how fire influences moisture in burned soil, hydrologists and other environmental scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a sophisticated computer model.
