Shipping of Equipment and Samples | Los Alamos National Laboratory

How to Ship Equipment and Samples

Shipping address:

Attention: [Name of Point of Contact]
SM-30 TA-53 01U
Bikini Atoll Rd.
Mail Stop: H805
Los Alamos, NM 87545
U.S.A.

Always address the shipment to your point of contact. Otherwise the LANL mail distribution system is unable to deliver the shipment.
Forward the delivery notification from the shipper to your POC so we can follow up at LANL.
Please make sure you label the samples properly (material, owner, ideally proposal number). If there are special handling instructions, please discuss them with the instrument scientist BEFORE shipping and document them in your shipment.
If the samples are radioactive, they MUST be shipped as radioactive materials.
If your experiment requires markings on the sample, e.g., to designate the sample orientation during the experiment, please provide markings that cannot be lost (e.g., electric discharge machining marks, scratches, etc.) and indicate how your sample should be mounted. This is especially important for mail-in samples that need to be oriented by the instrument scientist without the user.
Please note, that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forbids shipping stand-alone lithium metal batteries, UN3090, and stand-alone lithium-ion batteries, UN3480, classified as Section II shipments via air. Section II shipments are smaller shipments of lithium batteries. The updated regulation became effective January 1, 2022. This regulation applies to all global shipments regardless of origin and destination.

How to Ship Equipment and Samples

Shipping address:

Attention: [Name of Point of Contact]
SM-30 TA-53 01U
Bikini Atoll Rd.
Mail Stop: H805
Los Alamos, NM 87545
U.S.A.

Always address the shipment to your point of contact. Otherwise the LANL mail distribution system is unable to deliver the shipment.

Forward the delivery notification from the shipper to your POC so we can follow up at LANL.

Please make sure you label the samples properly (material, owner, ideally proposal number). If there are special handling instructions, please discuss them with the instrument scientist BEFORE shipping and document them in your shipment.

If the samples are radioactive, they MUST be shipped as radioactive materials.

If your experiment requires markings on the sample, e.g., to designate the sample orientation during the experiment, please provide markings that cannot be lost (e.g., electric discharge machining marks, scratches, etc.) and indicate how your sample should be mounted. This is especially important for mail-in samples that need to be oriented by the instrument scientist without the user.

Please note, that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forbids shipping stand-alone lithium metal batteries, UN3090, and stand-alone lithium-ion batteries, UN3480, classified as Section II shipments via air. Section II shipments are smaller shipments of lithium batteries. The updated regulation became effective January 1, 2022. This regulation applies to all global shipments regardless of origin and destination.