Media Coverage
News Releases - Renewable Energy Innovations Garner Tech Transfer Awards
23 May 2012- The Department of Energy's investments in innovation and technology help create new jobs, build new industries and help American companies stay competitive.
- Damaged shipment brings new insight to eye disease
23 May 2012- Abbas Shirinifard had hit a brick wall. Shrinifard, a researcher at Indiana University's Biocomplexity Institute, had been using detailed computer simulations to investigate the cause of choroidal neovascularization (CNV), a leading cause of loss of vision.
- Bechtel Makes Woman Engineer Magazine's Top 50 Employers List
22 May 2012- Bechtel Makes Woman Engineer Magazine's Top 50 Employers List FREDERICK, MD -- (MARKETWIRE) -- 05/22/12 -- Bechtel has been named a top employer by the readers of Woman Engineer magazine, earning a spot on the magazine's 2012 list of Top 50 Employers.
- Spectacular view of Saturn's moon Dione captured as Cassini probe hurtles past
22 May 2012- The robotic Cassini spacecraft captured a spectacular view of Saturn's moon Dione on its closest-ever fly-past - and caught two of the ringed planet's 62 other moons in the background.
- Have we got it all wrong about what it takes to live a long life?
21 May 2012- Follow @bakadesuyo WSJ Ideas Market points to an interesting interview over at APA with Howard Friedman, author of The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study.
- Hidden Fingerprint of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Finally Found
18 May 2012- After 50 years of searching, physicists have spotted the fingerprint of radioactive plutonium, revealing the secrets of this complex molecule behind nuclear weapons.
- Spinning up plutonium
17 May 2012- After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches to t
- Plutonium signature captured after 50 years of trying
17 May 2012- Devoted fans can wait hours on the red carpet to get their favourite movie star's autograph, but that's nothing compared to acquiring the signature of plutonium-239.
- High-temperature superconductors: determining the sign of the pairing state
17 May 2012- We propose a comparative study of indirect probes inelastic neutron scattering and the quasiparticle interference pattern to provide a more convincing tool for determining the sign reversal of the superconducting gap structure in iron-based superconductors.
- BIOMODA INC/NM - 10-Q - MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
15 May 2012- Company Overview Biomoda is an in-vitro diagnostics company that develops assays, or tests, to detect cancer. These assays are performed in clinical reference laboratories using body-fluid samples.
Fast Facts
Read about Los Alamos National Laboratory: Fact Sheets
People
11,782 total employees
Los Alamos National Security, LLC 9,665
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force) 477
Contractors 524
Students 1,116
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.
Operating costs FY 2010: about $2 billion
51% NNSA weapons programs
8% Nonproliferation programs
6% Safeguards and Security
11% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
5% Energy and other programs
15% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics (LANS and students only)
42% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe,
Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 45
67% male, 33% female
44% minorities
65% university degrees
25% hold undergraduate degrees
17% hold master's degrees
23% have earned a Ph.D.
Major Awards
118 R&D100 awards since 1978
28 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal