Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory
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103 organisations in US
What these terms mean
Every classification on this page, defined. These are controlled-vocabulary terms, so the same word means the same thing on every profile.
- National laboratory
- A state-funded laboratory operating at national scale, usually running facilities no single university could support.
- Research institute
- A public or non-profit research body. Frequently operates devices it did not commercially develop.
- Fission
- Advanced and small modular fission reactor developers, plus established reactor vendors.
- Fusion
- Organizations pursuing energy from nuclear fusion, and their dedicated supply chain.
In Los Alamos National Laboratory’s own words
Quoted from the organisation’s own site as we archived it. Their description of themselves, not ours, and not a claim this site has checked.
Our signatures facilities are a critical component for maintaining the vitality and leadership of our science, technology, and engineering capabilities for national security. Through its designated national user facilities, Los Alamos allows its partners and other entities to conduct research at many of its unique facilities.
Today, the Laboratory is laying the groundwork for manufacturing new pits that are bound for a weapon already in the stockpile, the W87-1 nuclear warhead. Los Alamos National Laboratory remains the only place in the country where pits can be made. This critical mission endures as the driving force for national security through deterrence.
We now know more about plutonium aging and decay, and how the changing properties of a plutonium pit could affect the performance of a nuclear weapon. That knowledge has led the U.S. to choose to replace the aging plutonium pits in many weapons as a precaution. The U.S. recycles plutonium from old pits, removing the aging and decay products then reuses that plutonium to make new ones. This recycling process uses several old pits to make a new pit. That means the number of pits in the nation's stockpile is actually decreasing even as we work to ensure its reliability.
We are 18,000+ people in New Mexico and beyond, with a shared goal to serve the common good.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the world’s most innovative multidisciplinary research institutions.
We have a proud history of almost 80 years of science and innovation to protect the nation.
Where Los Alamos National Laboratory sits
Composed from records in this dataset, not from outside research. Every figure below is counted from what the site holds, so it moves when the data does.
It is one of 103 we hold in US.
Related organisations
Others pursuing the same approach, then others in the same country.
Sources
- Los Alamos National Laboratory operator
A source marked operator is the subject’s own publication. That is legitimate, and it is not independent confirmation. Methodology.