Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Sixteen are run by contractors, and should be largely unaffected unless the shutdown wears on for several weeks. An official at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said that if that happens, that facility would seek to minimize disruption by slowly phasing in furloughs for non-essential employees.

Los Alamos National Laboratory will operate without restrictions or closures Monday, regardless of what happens with the federal government shutdown, officials said Friday. “All DOE federal employees are expected to report to work on your next scheduled work day and subsequent work days unless you ...

The operators of Los Alamos National Laboratory have been docked $3.1` million for improperly sending plutonium across the country using a ... SANTA FE – Los Alamos National Laboratory has been docked $3.1 million for its previously disclosed mistake of shipping radioactive plutonium across the ...

LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO—The new director of Los Alamos National Laboratory here, Terry Wallace, took the helm earlier this month at a particularly challenging time in the U.S. nuclear weapons lab's storied 75-year history. Repeated safety violations necessitated a temporary shutdown of much of the ...

Ashley Gutierrez is a customer service devotee at Wildflower, a Santa Fe-based, woman-owned IT hardware and software solutions company, that has partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1991. The company has nine employees—about 11 percent of its current workforce—dedicated to ...

SANTA FE — A loud explosion that shook the ground and rattled windows in the Santa Fe area about 3 p.m. Wednesday came from Los Alamos National Laboratory, which confirmed it had set off explosives about that time. A LANL statement said it was unusual for its blasts to be heard off-site, but this one ...

Multiple blasts echoed through Los Alamos and Santa Fe counties Thursday afternoon, shaking the frames of houses some 30 miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where high explosives were detonated in a routine test. Lab spokesman Kevin Roark said the 3 p.m. experiment was “conducted under ...

Geophysicist Terry Wallace has become the 11th director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. With a budget of $2.5bn, Los Alamos currently has almost 12,000 employees and contractors. Taking up office on 1 January, he succeeds nuclear physicist Charles McMillan, who announced his plan to retire ...

The installation includes original electronic instruments, hardware, furniture, tools and materials used by Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1940s. Sanborn, who is best known for creating the encrypted “Kryptos” sculpture at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, spent six years collecting ...

Researchers at an American national laboratory have now employed quantum dots for double-pane solar windows that offer shading, insulation, and, of course, generate energy – with greater efficiency. The Los Alamos National Laboratory team drew on a new window architecture utilizing two layers of ...

The largest award to a Hampton Roads defense contractor in December wasn't a defense contract at all. The Department of Energy awarded a $1.39 billion cleanup contract at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to a joint venture led by SN3, part of the Technical Solutions Division at military shipbuilder ...

A new consortium of two Virginia companies has been awarded a contract worth up to $1.4 billion to monitor contaminated water systems, clean up soiled lands and ship radioactive waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The U.S. Energy Department awarded the contract this week to Newport News ...

SANTA FE – Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation have renewed and elaborated on their criticism of a federal report that raises questions about whether Los Alamos National Laboratory should remain the nation's site for the manufacture of plutonium cores for nuclear weapons. They say the ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Texas A&M University is among the bidders interested in managing one of the nation's premier nuclear research laboratories. The multibillion-dollar contract with Los Alamos National Security LLC to run Los Alamos National Laboratory expires in 2018. Federal officials ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Federal officials are investigating the Los Alamos National Laboratory after an employee was involved in an incident described as a "near-miss to a fatality." Advertisement. A letter sent to the outgoing lab director by the Department of Energy's Office of Enforcement says a worker ...

When the University of California submits its bid Monday to continue management of Los Alamos National Laboratory, the public institution from the biggest, bluest state in the country will have an eye-grabbing partner: Texas A&M University. The two large university systems, one from a solid Democratic ...

A portion of Los Alamos National Laboratory is seen surrounded by smoke from the Cerro Grande Fire in 2000. Though the blaze did ... If there are private corporations interested in bidding on the management contract for Los Alamos National Laboratory, they aren't saying it publicly. The fees paid by the ...

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Bringing the exhibit to the Los Alamos History Museum happened through a collaboration with Antonio Redondo, a materials scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mars Inc. and the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, said Heather McClenahan, executive director of the Los Alamos Historical Society. Bringing the ...

“It was a really scary time for all of us,” said Mukundan, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, speaking of the infant's illness. “They pumped that little newborn full of antibiotics because they didn't know if it was bacterial.” In the end, her nephew didn't need the antibiotics. The meningitis was viral, ...

LOS ALAMOS — A recent survey of endangered species that live within the borders of Los Alamos National Laboratory shows the population of Mexican spotted owls appears to be holding steady. The Northern New Mexico lab, which covers about 38 square miles, recently released the findings.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has resumed shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository, near Carlsbad. A drum improperly packed at Los Alamos burst in 2014, causing contamination that shut down WIPP. (AP Photo/Susan ...

One type of efflux pump, which until recently had only been studied in parts, was recently modeled in its entirety and simulated using supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The findings, published November 28 in Scientific Reports, offer a better understanding of the motions and functions of ...

A plutonium chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1995 shows a "puck" of plutonium refined from a nuclear weapon pit at Technical Area 55. A leaked document from the National Nuclear Security Administration shows that construction of a facility able to produce 80 pits per year at Los Alamos ...

Drums containing materials contaminated with radioactive substances are stored in Area G at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003. ... Despite high costs and an elongated time frame, a key nuclear weapons project is expected to remain at Los Alamos National Laboratory until at least 2026, according ...

Top leaders of the University of California were in New Mexico this week making the case that despite safety and operational lapses over the past several years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the university system alone has the experience and expertise to manage the nuclear weapons lab — a role ...

It's often a challenge for programmers and scientists to get time on high-performance supercomputers. These machines are expensive to build and maintain, but there's no substitute for the massively parallel computing environment of a supercomputer. A new project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's ...

The University of California will compete for the contract to operate Los Alamos National Laboratory, the UC Board of Regents decided last ...

Texas' two largest university systems will have to knock off the incumbent if they hope to take over the Los Alamos National Laboratory ...

The UC Board of Regents unanimously approved the submission of a bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory, or LANL, and ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory, inspired and driven by Richard P. Feynman, fosters, deploys and delivers innovation. CERADROP has ...

Operated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, a nonprofit with programs fostering educational opportunities in communities in ...

Perhaps best known as the home of the atomic bomb, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, or LANL, is seeking new management in ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory (www.lanl.gov), a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory will this week reveal its latest "High-performance computer" - a cluster of 750 Raspberry Pis. The Lab's ...

Jay Janner 11/8/05 - Jay Janner/AMERICAN-STATESMAN - The sign at the main entrance at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los ...

LANL is scheduled to close on Oct. 18 due to the government shutdown. | Photo: Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory ...

... Los Alamos National Security, LLC have finished treating the remediated nitrate salts (RNS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Experts agree that whoever takes over the management of Los Alamos National Laboratory in late 2018 will see an increased budget for both ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — A federal nuclear safety panel says Los Alamos National Laboratory has come up short during drills intended to show ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory were contaminated after radioactive particles were released into the ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- Three workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory were exposed to radiation after an accident last month. Advertisement.

Three workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory were contaminated on the job last month when an accident released radioactive material into ...

LANL is scheduled to close on Oct. 18 due to the government shutdown. | Photo: Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory ...

A portion of Los Alamos National Laboratory is seen surrounded by smoke from the Cerro Grande Fire in 2000. Though the blaze did ... If there are private corporations interested in bidding on the management contract for Los Alamos National Laboratory, they aren't saying it publicly. The fees paid by the ...

The Trinity Supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory was recently named as a top 10 supercomputer on two lists: it made number ...

The University of California regents Thursday approved a plan for the 10-campus system to bid on the Los Alamos National Laboratory's ...