Los Alamos National Laboratory
February
Los Alamos analyzes meteor fragments nondestructively
Researchers and collaborators used the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center User Facility to perform novel compositional tomography characterizing small samples of the Chelyabinsk meteor. - 4/1/15
Ekdahl named IEEE Fellow
The IEEE cited Ekdahl “for contributions to high-power accelerator development and the generation and transport of electron beams for flash-radiography.” - 2/17/15
Science Briefs - 2015
Fast Facts
Total employees: 11,300
Los Alamos National Security, LLC: 8,150
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 300
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 425
Students: 1,100
Unionized craft workers: 980
Post doctoral researchers: 375
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
40% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 45
67% male, 33% female
46% minorities
66% university degrees
29% hold undergraduate degrees
17% hold master’s degrees
20% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
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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