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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Los Alamos National Laboratory established in 1943, one of the national laboratories under the
Department of Energy(DOE) and operated by the University of California; it is a multiprogram facility located in New Mexico. It provides technical assistance to the DOE weapons complex, performs basic research for DOE programs, and supports energy and environmental technologies.
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Los Alamos lab's security appears great on paper Glowing evaluation comes in wake of recent lapses in handling of nuclear data
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 7/31/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...two drives of nuclear secrets at Los Alamos National Laboratory, saying "there is something about the Los Alamos culture that we have not yet beaten...on paper, where contract fees for Los Alamos manager University of California...
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Los Alamos debacle could cost UC Debacle at Los Alamos costs UC How Los Alamos debacle costs UC
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 7/21/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...security officers and scientists turned Los Alamos National Laboratory upside down last...board of regents that ostensibly runs Los Alamos, said he was tempted by the idea...America and its security by running Los Alamos -- has been eclipsed, if not decimated...
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Chevron and Los Alamos National Laboratory Launch Research Project to Unlock Hydrocarbons Trapped in Oil Shale Formations.
PR Newswire; 9/25/2006; 700+ words
; ...FirstCall/ -- Chevron Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced...formations. The goal of the Chevron-Los Alamos collaboration is to develop an environmentally...developed through its alliance with Los Alamos, subject both to approval from the...
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Los Alamos lab work halted
News Wire article from: University Wire; 7/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the University of California-run Los Alamos National Laboratory were halted Friday...will resume work. The devices at Los Alamos were discovered missing from the...The loss of classified material at Los Alamos National Laboratory drew the ire...
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El Laboratorio Los Alamos se embarca a 'una nueva visión'.(TT: Los Alamos Laboratory embarks upon 'a new vision.')
Magazine article from: Hispanic Times Magazine; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...cincuenta aos el Laboratorio Nacional de Los Alamos fue formado en el norte de Nuevo...ese tiempo. Desde aquel entonces Los Alamos ha sido administrado por la Universidad...cintificos trabajan en el Laboratorio de Los Alamos -- y una meta mayor de sus proyectos...
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Activists urge against U. Texas Los Alamos bid
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/10/2004; ; 642 words
; ...of Texas System bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory at a panel sponsored...UT don't fully understand what Los Alamos does," said panelist Greg Mello, the director of a Los Alamos watchdog group. Mello compared Los...
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Secret Mesa: Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Sons, 1998 230 pages; $24.95 Los Alamos's importance to nuclear culture...nuclear warheads. At the same time, Los Alamos is a compelling symbol. In its symbolic...served as a message to the Soviets, Los Alamos is also a symbol of one of the most...
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Mythical and Modern: Representations of Los Alamos.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Southwest; 12/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Los Alamos has paradoxically represented both one...mythical that is found in representations of Los Alamos is a tension that characterizes early and...first-hand accounts of life at wartime Los Alamos, a 1952 espionage film The Atomic City...
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MANAGEMENT CONTRACT FOR LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY:HONORABLE LINTON F. BROOKS
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 5/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...California' s Management Contract for Los Alamos National Laboratory May 1, 2003...University of California and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Our examination...and the time of the relief of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Director in 2003...
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Los Alamos fire gets police response
Magazine article from: Law & Order; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Service started a "controlled burn" west of Los Alamos, NM, in May, officials did not foresee the conflagration that destroyed structures in Los Alamos itself, and threatened the famous Los Alamos National Laboratory. However, mountain weather...
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Los Alamos
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Los Alamos , uninc. town (1990 pop. 11,455), seat of Los Alamos co., N central N.Mex. It is on a long...In 1962 government control ended and Los Alamos became a self-governing community; the...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Los Alamos National Laboratory █ K. LEE LERNER Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), located...x2588; FURTHER READING: ELECTRONIC: Los Alamos National Laboratory. <http...
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Edward Teller
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Chicago. In April 1943 he joined the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, where he...Chicago until 1949 when he returned to Los Alamos to complete his work on the bomb. According to Teller: "In Los Alamos my metamorphosis was completed...
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Fitch, Val Logsdon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...serving in the Army and stationed in Los Alamos, New Mexico, he worked on the Manhattan...test of the first A-bomb at the Los Alamos laboratory. Fitch worked under the...all, Fitch spent three years at Los Alamos, learning the techniques of experimental...
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Sandia National Laboratories
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...conducted in the remote location of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Although the area...Laboratories was created, the Z Division of Los Alamos Laboratories, dedicated to the design...status, becoming a separate branch of Los Alamos called Sandia Laboratory. Under...
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