May
New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program recognized by U.S. Department of Commerce
Receives the 2012 Manufacturing Advocate of the Year award from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership under the U.S. Department of Commerce. - 5/31/12
Facility will focus on bioenergy, global food security
The New Mexico Consortium expects to complete the 27,000 square foot laboratory and office facility next spring. - 5/22/12
Plutonium less mysterious with nuclear magnetic resonance
For more than 50 years, chemists and physicists have been searching for the plutonium-239 magnetic resonance signal. - 5/21/12
LANL's Bradbury Science Museum takes part in Blue Star Museums program
Program to host active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 28, through Labor Day, Sept. 3. - 5/16/12
Manvendra Dubey selected as Fulbright-Nehru Fellow
Manvendra Dubey has received a J. William Fulbright scholarship to conduct monsoon-related research in India. - 5/15/12
Sixty-five New Mexico students receive Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund scholarships
Los Alamos High School senior Scott Carlsten received the top award. - 5/1/12
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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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