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The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), formerly known as the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF), is one of the world's most powerful linear accelerators.It is located in Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in Technical Area 53.
On June 1, 2006, the University of California ended its sixty years of direct involvement in operating Los Alamos National Laboratory, and management control of the laboratory was taken over by Los Alamos National Security, LLC with effect October 1, 2007. Approximately 95% of the former 10,000 plus UC employees at LANL were rehired by LANS to ...
The Omega West Reactor (OWR) was an experimental nuclear reactor located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos NM. OWR was completed in 1956 and primarily used for scientific scale nuclear research until it was fully decommissioned in 1994. It operated 24 hours a day, five days a week until 1972, when it went to eight hours a day ...
A DOE presentation from 2020 showed the agency expected to produce about 2,000 containers of waste per year at Los Alamos during pit production by 2026, and that between the lab and Savannah River ...
During World War II, Hanford produced plutonium nitrate (Pu(NO 3) 2), which was shipped to Los Alamos, where it was turned into metallic plutonium and made into pits. [149] [150] After the war ended, the Los Alamos Laboratory moved to divest itself of production activities in order to devote itself to research. [151]
Aug. 4—The Los Alamos County Council passed a $371 million budget in April for fiscal year 2025. It was a whopping sum for a community of 19,400 residents. The city of Santa Fe, with about ...
The production and formation of these radioactive atoms into an ionic beam for study is an entire field of research carried out at many laboratories throughout the world. The first isotope separator was developed at the Copenhagen Cyclotron by Bohr and coworkers using the principle of electromagnetic separation.
Watchdogs are raising new concerns about legacy contamination in Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and home to a renewed effort to manufacture key components for nuclear weapons. A ...