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Fast Facts 2016
Total employees: 10,500
Los Alamos National Security, LLC: 6,850
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 300
Staff and support contractors: 400
Students: 1,100
Unionized craft workers: 880
Post doctoral researchers: 350
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 40 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 1,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8.2 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
65% Weapons programs
7% Nonproliferation programs
5% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
2% Energy and other programs
10% Work for Others
(LANS and students only)
39% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
67% male, 33% female
44% minorities
66% university degrees
28% hold undergraduate degrees
17% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD
137 R&D100 awards since 1978
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
8 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists & Engineers
2 Glenn Seaborg Medals
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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