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David L. Clark selected to lead technical team
LANL: the Plutonium Center of Excellence for the DOE complex—its mission is the responsibility to lead science, engineering and technology development across a broad range of plutonium-centric programs
As part of these efforts, Charlie McMillan, Principal Associate Director for Weapons Programs (PADWP), and Terry Wallace, Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology and Engineering (PADSTE), have chartered the development of an institutional plutonium science strategy. The strategy will provide a road map for plutonium research and development efforts across the Lab's three mission pillars: Nuclear Deterrence, Global Threat Reduction, and Energy Security.
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IBEX Satellite Finds Ribbon-Like Structure at Edge of Heliosphere
Contact: Nancy Ambrosiano, 505-667-0471, nwa@lanl.gov
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, October 15, 2009—The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud through which it flies. Using the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager, led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has sent back data that indicates a “noodle soup” of solar material has accumulated at the outer fringes of the heliosphere bubble.
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11,437 total employees
Los Alamos National Security, LLC 9,452
SOC (Guard Force) 510
Other contractors 437
Students 1,038
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New
Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $5.9 billion
Budget FY 2008: Approx. $2 billion
55% Weapons Programs
8% Nonproliferation programs
7% Safeguards and Security
8% Environmental Management
3% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
15% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics
43% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe,
Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 45
67% male, 33% female
43% minorities
72% university degrees
31% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold graduate degrees
22% have earned a Ph.D.
Major Awards
113 R&D100 awards since 1978
28 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal