Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE),located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe,New Mexico,in the American southwest. Best known for its central role in helping develop the first atomic bomb,LANL is one of the world's largest and most advanced scientific institutions.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore,California,United States. Originally established in 1952,the laboratory now is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered privately by Lawrence Livermore National Security,LLC.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production,as well as manages the research and development of nuclear power,the military's nuclear weapons program,nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy,energy-related research,and energy conservation.
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL),also known as Sandia,is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Headquartered in Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque,New Mexico,it has a second principal facility next to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore,California,and a test facility in Waimea,Kauai,Hawaii. Sandia is owned by the U.S. federal government but privately managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia,a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International.
The LANL Research Library is a research library at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It contains a substantial collection of books,journals,databases,patents along with technical reports. Additionally it offers literature searching,training,and outreach services. The library has a research and development (R&D) component,which works in areas such as open archives,recommendation systems,emergency response information systems,and discovery systems. Its stated mission is to deliver effective and responsive knowledge services,thereby connecting people with information,technology,and resources. Its stated purpose (vision) is essential knowledge services for national security sciences.
The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers is a system of laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for scientific and technological research. The primary mission of the DOE national laboratories is to conduct research and development (R&D) addressing national priorities:energy and climate,the environment,national security,and health. Sixteen of the seventeen DOE national laboratories are federally funded research and development centers administered,managed,operated and staffed by private-sector organizations under management and operating (M&O) contracts with the DOE.
The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program is a super-computing program run by the National Nuclear Security Administration,in order to simulate,test,and maintain the United States nuclear stockpile. The program was created in 1995 in order to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program. The goal of the initiative is to extend the lifetime of the current aging stockpile.
Los Alamos National Security,LLC was a private limited liability company (LLC) formed by the University of California,Bechtel,BWX Technologies,and URS Energy and Construction. From its creation until November 1,2018,it operated Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. It took over direct management and operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from the University of California on June 1,2006. It was based in Los Alamos,New Mexico. Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory are now overseen by Triad National Security.
The Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) was a proposed new American nuclear warhead design and bomb family that was intended to be simple,reliable and to provide a long-lasting,low-maintenance future nuclear force for the United States. Initiated by the United States Congress in 2004,it became a centerpiece of the plans of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to remake the nuclear weapons complex.
Material Protection,Control,and Accounting (MPC&A) refers to the safeguarding of nuclear assets,including nuclear fuel and weapons. In the United States,the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),a component of the Department of Energy,oversees MPC&A as part of its nonproliferation program.
The Under Secretary for Nuclear Security,in the United States Department of Energy,is the Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The National Nuclear Security Administration's responsibilities include designing,producing,and maintaining safe,secure and reliable nuclear weapons for the U.S. military,providing safe,militarily effective naval nuclear propulsion plants,and promoting international nuclear safety and nonproliferation. The current Under Secretary is Jill Hruby.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal agency responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety,security,and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile;works to reduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction;provides the United States Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion;and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad.
Los Alamos is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County,New Mexico,United States,that is recognized as one of the development and creation places of the atomic bomb—the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. The town is located on four mesas of the Pajarito Plateau,and had a population of about 13,200 as of 2020. It is the county seat and one of two population centers in the county known as census-designated places (CDPs);the other is White Rock.
The Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility,usually referred to as the CMRR,is a facility under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico which is part of the United States' nuclear stockpile stewardship program. The facility will replace the aging Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) facility. It is located in Technical Area 55 (TA-55) and consists of two buildings:the Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) and the Radiological Laboratory,Utility,and Office Building (RLUOB). The two buildings will be linked by tunnels and will connect to LANL's existing 30-year-old plutonium facility PF-4. The facility is controversial both because of spiraling costs and because critics argue it will allow for expanded production of plutonium 'pits' and therefore could be used to manufacture new nuclear weapons.
Charles F. McMillan is an American nuclear physicist and served as the 10th director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His appointment was effective June 1,2011. He succeeded Michael R. Anastasio. On September 5,2017,McMillan announced he would be leaving the director position at the end of the year.
The Federal Protective Forces are the paramilitary law enforcement agencies of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for the protection of Category I special nuclear material. Though officially classified as security police,they hold law enforcement status while engaged in the performance of official duties. Officers are equipped and trained to respond to serious incidents at Department of Energy facilities by armed adversaries and to reacquire stolen nuclear material. The FPFs have been described by the DOE as "elite fighting forces" designed to operate in "combat environments".
Thomas Mason is a Canadian-American condensed-matter physicist who serves as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment,he had been an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute from 2017 to 2018,and the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2007 to 2017. Mason moved to Oak Ridge in 1998 at the start of construction of the Spallation Neutron Source which he led from 2001 until project completion in 2006.
Jill M. Hruby is an American mechanical engineer and government official. Since July 26,2021,Hruby has served as Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration,a post subject to Senate confirmation. Jill Hruby made history as the first woman to ever head a U.S. nuclear weapons lab,serving as director of Sandia National Laboratories from 2015-2017.
Dana Dattelbaum is an American physicist and scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She leads NNSA’s Dynamic Materials Properties portfolio at LANL,which provides experimental data,platforms and diagnostics for materials behaviors relevant to nuclear weapons performance,ranging from plutonium to high explosives.
Marvin L. Adams is a nuclear engineer and computational physicist. Since April 2022,he has served as Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the Biden administration.
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