Los Alamos National Laboratory
November
Wendelberger receives the William G. Hunter Award
The award is named in honor of the ASQ Statistics Division’s first chair, William G. Hunter. - 11/14/17
Lab receives HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
The Lab received the HPCwire Editors' Choice for Best Use of AI, for its project CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE). - 11/14/17
Helium channels in nanocomposites could be game changers
This finding could have value in determining if such channels not only do not damage the material, but may even help it to “self-heal” by providing paths for He to escape. - 11/13/17
Modeling deep water three-dimensional upwelling
A team of researchers examined the deep water upwelling the global overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. - 11/7/17
Science Briefs - 2017
Fast Facts
Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others
Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020
