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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

Uranium compound achieves record anomalous Nernst conductivity - 3/26/21
Fuel cell innovator Borup named Electrochemical Society (ECS) Fellow - 9/8/20
Nondestructive positron beams probe damage, support safety advances in radiation environments - 7/29/20
Self-powered X-Ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine, security and research - 4/20/20
Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless and cell phone communications - 3/20/20
Quantum information gets a boost from thin-film breakthrough - 5/29/19
New reactor-liner alloy material offers strength, resilience - 3/5/19
More stable light comes from intentionally 'squashed' quantum dots - 1/10/19
Innate fingerprint could detect tampered steel parts - 11/28/18
Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter - 4/2/18
Researchers discover novel exciton interactions in carbon nanotubes - 2/14/18
Superconductivity research reveals potential new state of matter - 8/16/17
Single-photon emitter has promise for quantum info-processing - 7/31/17
Quantum-dot solar windows evolve with ‘doctor-blade’ spreading - 10/11/16
New class of fuel cells offer increased flexibility, lower cost - 8/23/16
Efficient hydrogen production made easy - 6/13/16
Cooling, time in the dark preserve perovskite solar power - 5/17/16
Looking inside plutonium - 4/7/16
Novel water-removal technique boosts performance of carbon nanomaterials - 3/23/16
Argonne and Los Alamos national laboratories team up to develop more affordable fuel cell components - 3/1/16
High-energy physics detector MicroBooNE sees first accelerator-born neutrinos - 11/2/15
Los Alamos researchers uncover new origins of radiation-tolerant materials - 10/29/15
Rings of Fire: New explosives provide enhanced safety, high energy - 10/22/15
Los Alamos explores hybrid ultrasmall gold nanocluster for enzymatic fuel cells - 9/24/15
Neutrons find “missing” magnetism of plutonium - 7/10/15
Promising future of quantum dots explored in conference - 4/13/15
Towards a next theory of superconductivity - 3/26/15
Los Alamos offers new insights into radiation damage evolution - 3/16/15
One million curies of radioactive material recovered - 12/22/14
Los Alamos researchers uncover new properties in nanocomposite oxide ceramics for reactor fuel, fast-ion conductors - 9/23/14
Los Alamos conducts important hydrodynamic experiment in Nevada - 9/8/14
Los Alamos probes mysteries of uranium dioxide’s thermal conductivity - 8/4/14
Acoustics topic of upcoming Frontiers in Science series - 7/24/14
Scientists ignite aluminum water mix - 6/30/14
Los Alamos physicist honored with E.O. Lawrence Award - 4/16/14
World’s largest single crystal of gold verified at Los Alamos - 4/7/14
Flipping the switch on magnetism in strontium titanate - 3/27/14
‘Fore!' heads up, wide use of more flexible metallic glass coming your way - 3/3/14
Auto industry steel project to boost efficiency, safety - 7/11/13
New phase of matter discovered In superconducting material - 6/6/13
Metamaterial flexible sheets could transform optics - 6/5/13
Tiny subject, big fun with NanoDays at Bradbury Science Museum - 3/18/13
‘Slow light’ advance could speed optical computing, telecommunications - 2/12/13
Artificial molecules that switch "handedness" at light-speed - 7/10/12
Los Alamos achieves world-record pulsed magnetic field - 8/23/11
AAAS and LANL announce 2010 Fellows - 1/11/11







