September
Renewable energy is focus of New Science on Wheels programs offered by Bradbury Science Museum
The classes are designed to generate interest in science and renewable energy by students at schools throughout Northern New Mexico. - 9/21/10
Mars mission laser tool heads to JPL
Curiosity will carry the newly delivered laser instrument to reveal which elements are present in Mars’ rocks and soils. - 9/21/10
Bradbury Science Museum takes part in Smithsonian’s Museum Day September 25
Participating museums and cultural institutions across the nation open their doors free of charge to anyone presenting a Smithsonian Museum Day ticket. - 9/21/10
Understanding of solar wind structure might be wrong
The plasma particles flowing from the Sun and blasting past the Earth might be configured more as a network of tubes than a river-like stream. - 9/7/10
Los Alamos National Laboratory attracts record number of students this summer
More than 1,300 students interned in both technical and nontechnical fields. - 9/7/10
Lab to host second annual LDRD Day September 8
The event provides an opportunity for people to see some of the most exciting research currently underway at the Laboratory. - 9/2/10
Lab obtains approval to begin design on new radioactive waste staging facility
The 4-acre complex will include multiple staging buildings plus an operations center and a concrete pad for mobile waste characterization equipment. - 9/1/10
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People
Total employees,
10,402
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,929
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 396
Contractors, 349
Students, 889
Post doctoral researchers, 427
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 2012: Approx. $2.2 billion
—57% Weapons programs
—9% Nonproliferation programs
—7% Safeguards and Security
—8% Environmental Management
—4% DOE Office of Science
—4% Energy and other programs
—11% 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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