February
Laboratory Fellow Rusty Gray named president of TM
George T. “Rusty” Gray III was selected as 2010 president of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. - 2/24/10
LANL Medal recipient George Cowan, 90, presents memoirs at talk, book signing February 25 in Los Alamos
Scientist, businessman, and philanthropist George Cowan will talk about his new book, Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute. - 2/17/10
Laboratory increases shipments of waste to WIPP repository
The campaign will eliminate LANL’s existing backlog of approximately 1,500 drums of legacy transuranic waste awaiting shipment to WIPP. - 2/11/10
Cyber sleuths face off
Computer specialists will meet for a grueling week that combines state-of-the-art training with opportunities to team up, solve relevant cyber problems, and attack one another. - 2/10/10
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People
Total employees, 10,312
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,866
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 381
Staff and support contractors, 774
Students, 799
Unionized craft workers, 709
Post doctoral researchers, 411
Other, 472
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 $9.8 billion
Budget
FY 2013: Approx. $2.1 billion
—54% Weapons programs
—10% Nonproliferation programs
—5% Safeguards and Security
—9% Environmental Management
—5% DOE Office of Science
—3% Energy and other programs
—14% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics
(LANS and students only)
34% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
—67% male, 33% female
—44% minorities
—67% university degrees
—26% hold undergraduate degrees
—18% hold master’s degrees
—23% have earned a PhD
Major Awards
124 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
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