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 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
LIVERMORE, Calif. - A talk by former astronaut John Glenn, a daylong look at scientific programs, a panel discussion featuring members of the original corps of employees, and a special panel featuring past directors are a few of the events taking place during a weeklong celebration of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's 50th anniversary.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
Truman was president at the time LLNL was founded, and his decisions were vital to the new Laboratory.
www.ucnewswire.org /events/sep10art3.htm   (795 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 50th Anniversary Celebration
For your inspired contributions to the nation and the University as co-founder and second director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California is proud to bestow upon you the Presidential Medal.
For your thoughtful leadership as the third director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and for your outstanding contributions to science and education, the University of California is proud to bestow upon you the Presidential Medal.
For your leadership and vision as the fourth director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and for your superb contributions to science and technology, the University of California is proud to bestow upon you the Presidential Medal.
www.ucop.edu /pres/comments/llnl50an.htm   (945 words)

  
 A Nuclear Family Vacation By Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger
One of the guests was Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born physicist still referred to as the "father of the hydrogen bomb" and founder of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Calif.—In 1993, Los Alamos National Laboratory hosted a ceremony to mark the 50
According to Livermore management, NIF is essential to stockpile stewardship, because once the facility is fully operational, they will be able to reproduce the fusion processes that take place inside a star or a thermonuclear weapon.
www.slate.com /id/2122382/entry/2122493   (1325 words)

  
 ATSDR - Health Consultation - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Main Site (USDOE), Livermore, Alameda County, California
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a high-energy research facility conducting nuclear weapons research and development, is located in Livermore, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area (Figure 1, Appendix A).
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a research facility conducting nuclear weapons research and development, is located in Livermore, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In the Livermore community, historic tritium releases from LLNL are one possible exposure source for the community to ionizing radiation.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/livermore6/lrc_p1.html   (12470 words)

  
 Michael R. Anastasio named director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national nuclear security laboratory, with a mission to ensure national security and apply science and technology to the important issues of our time.
The University of California Board of Regents today (June 4, 2002) named Dr. Michael R. Anastasio, currently deputy director for strategic operations of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a research scientist nationally recognized for his leadership in the design and safe stewardship of nuclear weapons, as director of the UC-managed national laboratory.
As Livermore is among the nation's top scientific institutions, we must continue to make innovative contributions to advance national security and all areas of science and technology.
www.ucop.edu /news/archives/2002/june4art2.htm   (742 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Awards System
Laboratory scientists have been collaborating with the Russians on the quest for element 114 since 1989.
The LLNL team was supported, in part, by Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program funding.
The LLNL team, collaborating with the University of Minesota and IBM, conducted a series of 3D simulations using the ASCI IBM RS/6000 ST computer to emulate Richtyer-Meshkov mixing, which is the instability that occurs when a shock wave passes through the interface of two fluids with different mass densities.
stars.llnl.gov /whatsnew.html   (926 words)

  
 EPA: Federal Register: Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
From a broader national security perspective, the core intellectual and technical competencies of LLNL (and Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory, DOE's other nuclear weapons laboratories) provide the technical basis for the pursuit of United States arms control and nuclear nonproliferation objectives.
The Laboratory is focusing its efforts on two of the nation's top priorities: ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the United States nuclear stockpile; and preventing and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Inherent in the many decisions made in the SSM PEIS ROD was the decision to continue the operation of the three national weapons laboratories, LLNL being one of the three.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2002/June/Day-17/i15165.htm   (2868 words)

  
 ATSDR - Health Consultation - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. DOE), Livermore, Alameda County, California
ATSDR - Health Consultation - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. DOE), Livermore, Alameda County, California
Livermore, CA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Terrestrial and Atmospheric Monitoring Group Report EMP-AT-S; 1999.
We recognize that national laboratories must be consistent with the radiation protection requirements and guidelines established by the Department of Energy in demonstrating compliance.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/livermore2/liv_p4.html   (8417 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
One of the three principal federal nuclear labs, Lawrence Livermore National Lab is a complex of diverse facilities on a cramped 821 acres, at the edge of the suburban community of Livermore, California.
Lawrence Livermore, like Los Alamos, is operated by the University of California, and employs over 7,000 people.
The Lab, along with its sister facility, New Mexico's Los Alamos National Lab, also has many facilities at the Nevada Test Site.
ludb.clui.org /ex/i/CA3003   (138 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA:Survey Summary
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was founded in 1952 by E.O. Lawrence, a Nobel laureate and distinguished pioneer in managing large-scale, innovative research projects that combined the expertise of many disciplines.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA:Survey Summary
LLNL works routinely with production plants in a flexible manufacturing environment, transfers developed technology from the laboratory to industry, and actively promotes the role of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technology in concurrent engineering.
www.bmpcoe.org /bestpractices/internal/llnl/summary.html   (566 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 - United States Nuclear Forces
Site 300 of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is located in northern California, approximately 15 miles southeast of the Laboratory's Main Site and 10 miles southwest of the City of Tracy.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Site 300 Home Page
Site 1 was the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was designated Site 2.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/livermore_300.htm   (1388 words)

  
 National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center
Located at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NARAC is a national support and resource center for planning, real-time assessment, emergency response, and detailed studies of incidents involving a wide variety of hazards, including nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, and natural emissions.
The National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, NARAC, provides tools and services that map the probable spread of hazardous material accidentally or intentionally released into the atmosphere.
NARAC provides atmospheric plume predictions in time for an emergency manager to decide if taking protective action is necessary to protect the health and safety of people in affected areas.
narac.llnl.gov   (99 words)

  
 GMRI-Case Study on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The work of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) includes such important tasks as applying technology to safeguard the nation's nuclear stockpile and halt the worldwide spread of nuclear materials and capabilities.
Orders had to be keyed into LLNL's ordering system, faxed to the reseller and then updated in the disparate back-end systems.
Working closely with LLNL's IT department, GMRI developed an integrated Buyer-side Electronic Ordering System (EOS) that allows scientists and engineers to select and configure desktop machines, submit them for approval by procurement staff, and automatically order them from GMRI's and Dell's existing Seller-side applications.
www.gmri.com /dev2go.web?anchor=llnl   (573 words)

  
 Welcome to the Speech Technology Web Site
"Speech Coding Using EM Sensor and Acoustic Signals", Holzichter, J.F. and Ng, L.C. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Davis), Conference Summary, 2002 - PDF Format.
This is a Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Report UCRL - JRNL-147775 - PDF Format.
EM Wave Measurements of Glottal Structure Dynamics", Holzrichter, J.F.; Ng, L.C.; Burke,G.J.;Champagne, N.J. II; Kallman,J.S.; Sharpe,R.M.; Kobler,J.B.; Hillman,R.E; and Rosowski,J.J., University of California, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Report, UCRL-JC-147775, 2002.
speech.llnl.gov   (926 words)

  
 PCMDI
PCMDI was established in 1989 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California.
We are funded by the Climate Change Research Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program.
For questions or comments regarding this website, please contact the Webmaster.
www-pcmdi.llnl.gov   (69 words)

  
 Open Letter to the Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
But a weapons laboratory, a government, or a nation can make thousands of nuclear bombs, threatening to kill as many people as it chooses, and that will not be called murder, but a great and noble action….
My fellow scientists and engineers, the national labs must change from labs of war to labs of peace if there is to be a chance to avoid the extinction of all life on earth.
We urgently need an international campaign to help scientists and engineers see that they must withhold their skills from war-science.
www.reachingcriticalwill.org /legal/nwc/mon1toup.html   (1815 words)

  
 Biology & Biotechnology Research Program
Bioscience research was initiated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1963.
These efforts seek to bring National Laboratory strengths to bear in the service of three main areas of societal need: human health, defense biology, and environmental health.
Operated by the University of California for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration
bbrp.llnl.gov   (162 words)

  
 Physics & Advanced Technologies Directorate
Physics and Advanced Technologies is highly integrated, multidisciplinary, and has substantive research ties to the rest of the Laboratory, and to universities and industry.
Our Mission is to be a leader in frontier physics and technology for 21st-century national security missions: stockpile stewardship, homeland security, energy independence, and the exploration and use of space.
The PAT directorate has a budget of approximately $140M and a staff of approximately 400 employees.
www-phys.llnl.gov   (109 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Awards System
He has been the Project Leader of the Micropower Impulse Radar Project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he leads a group working on specialized radar systems for various applications including bridge-deck inspection, search-and-rescue, and mine detection.
Stephen Azevedo is currently Deputy Division Leader in the Electronics Engineering Technologies Division at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
In 1991-92, Steve was an invited researcher at the LETI laboratory in Grenoble, France.
stars.llnl.gov /RD100_bios.html   (1096 words)

  
 Comments on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Draft EIS
Comments of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the Draft Supplemental Site-Wide Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, DOE/EIS-0348, February 2004
The proposal to vastly expand plutonium storage and processing in the preferred alternative would convert Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory into a major industrial-scale plutonium processing site.
Such a scale-up needs to be justified in the context of existing available plutonium processing facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the expansion of that capacity that has been proposed, including the upgrade of the CMR building at LANL.
www.ieer.org /comments/LLNLDEIS.html   (856 words)

  
 The LLNL Electron-Positron Beams Facility
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory operates a world-class facility to provide intense beams of positrons for use in materials physics, plasma physics, and particle physics research.
Users of the facility include DOE National Security programs, academic researchers, and industry.
The positron facility provides a wide range of capabilities, including high-current beams for investigation of bulk materials properties, low-emittance beams for studies of one-component plasmas, and a positron microprobe.
www-phys.llnl.gov /H_Div/Positrons   (275 words)

  
 LLNL Undergraduate and Graduate Opportunities
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosts 300 to 400 undergraduate and graduate students every summer in support of it’s world-class scientific facilities and staff and in an effort to help train the nation’s next generation of scientists and engineers.
An experience of this type, and with these resources at a premier state-of-the-art research laboratory is not available in an academic research lab.
Yet another benefit is a pipeline to employment, strengthening collaborations with academia as well as other DOE laboratories and employers partnering in collaborative research.
universitygateway.llnl.gov /undergrad_grad   (202 words)

  
 Princeton Review Internship Profile: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory offers full-time science and technology summer research appointments to undergraduate, graduate, and occasionally high school students.
For two weeks in August, about 30 outstanding science and engineering students entering their senior year at colleges and universities throughout the nation come to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for lectures, tours, and to carry out research projects under the guidance of leading University of California faculty and LLNL researchers.
Lawrence Livermore continues to serve the national interest and support global security through its application of innovative, groundbreaking science and technology.
www.princetonreview.com /cte/profiles/internshipGenInfo.asp?internshipID=492   (338 words)

  
 DOE-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, administered by the University of California, is one of the world's largest research and development laboratories, with 8,000 full-time employees and a budget of $1.1 billion.
The Mission of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is to serve as a national resource in science and engineering, focused on national security, energy, the environment, and biomedicine, with a special responsibility for nuclear weapons.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory facilities used to conduct its mission include:
www.zyn.com /flcfw/regdir/FW/265.htm   (165 words)

  
 Lawrence Fellowship
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has established the Lawrence Fellowship, a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship program.
The Laboratory is committed to making the fellows' experience at LLNL positive and rewarding.
Successful candidates may participate in experimental or theoretical work at LLNL, and will have access to LLNL's extensive computing facilities, talents, pool of specialized laboratory facilities, and field equipment.
universitygateway.llnl.gov /postdoc/lawrence   (278 words)

  
 LLNL Truck Stopping Devices home page
Two such technologies developed or codeveloped by LLNL are featured here: the Terrorist Vehicle Barrier and Truck-Stopping Device.
There are a number of means available to help prevent a successful vehicle-based terrorist attack on a facility.
www-eng.llnl.gov /tsd/tsd.html   (142 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Timeline, 21st Century
National Laboratory has appointed Cherry A. Murray, as deputy director for science and technology
75 activists gathered outside National Laboratory demanding to investigate 'clandestine activities'
Officials at the laboratory have added a high-powered gun that can fire 3,000 rounds a minute o their armory
www.mapreport.com /na/west/ba/news/cities/livermore_lab.html   (467 words)

  
 IBM to build fastest supercomputers CNET News.com
The program, with a budget in the billions of dollars, was embraced by the nation's three national laboratories--Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--as a way they could assure that nuclear weapons would work as designed, without having to rely on actual tests.
IBM has won a $290 million government contract to build what are expected to be the world's two fastest supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the company plans to announce Tuesday.
Next came the three-teraflop machines, Blue Mountain, built by SGI for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Blue Pacific, built by IBM at the Livermore lab in California.
news.com.com /2100-1001-966312.html   (1235 words)

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