An Introduction to Los Alamos National Laboratory [Slides]

Technical Report · Thu Feb 03 04:00:00 EST 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1843153· OSTI ID:1843153

Peterson, Paul David ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The Weapon Systems Engineering Division (W) provides the system engineering and program management necessary to sustain the safety, reliability, and security of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s assets in the active United States nuclear stockpile - the B61, W76, W78 and W88. The Division generates key certification data for Annual Assessment supporting the Laboratory Director's letter to the President on the health of those warheads. This role demands ongoing surveillance of the active stockpile and evaluation of the potential impact of any issues through design, engineering, fabrication, testing using state-of-the-art computational simulation tools and engineering test facilities. The Division works in close liaison with the several production facilities across the nuclear security complex as well as with the customers in the US Navy and Air Force.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Programs (DP)
• DOE Contract Number: 89233218CNA000001
• OSTI ID: 1843153
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-22-20729
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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