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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
Did life sign the guestbook on Mars?
If life exists on Mars, it still hasn’t showed itself, but recent evidence from the red planet increasingly supports the possibility
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Preparing the quantum workforce of the future
The Quantum Computing Summer School accepts students from all over the world to receive tutorials from quantum-computation experts and gain hands-on experience and one-to-one mentoring
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Los Alamos scientists school Wikipedia about women in science
A group of Lab employees gathered to create or edit biographies of Los Alamos female scientists on Wikipedia
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Using algae to try and solve the plastic problem
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an alternative method to sustainably manufacture plastic that is not only durable but is easily biodegradable
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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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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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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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How big data can help save the world
Emerging analytic and computing tools are enabling much better use of huge data sets
