In addition, LLNL conducts work-for-others research and development for various Defense Department sponsors, other federal agencies, including NASA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), National Institutes of Health, and Environmental Protection Agency, a number of California State agencies, and private industry.

LLNL is self-described as " a premier research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security.

Under this plan, LLNL would be a center of excellence for nuclear design and engineering, a center of excellence for high explosive research and development, and a science magnet in high-energy-density ( i. e., laser ) physics.

* The LLNL chemistry, materials, and life science research focuses on chemical engineering, nuclear chemistry, materials science, and biology and bio-nanotechnology.

* The LLNL is very strong in computer science, with thrust areas in computing applications and research, integrated computing and communications systems, and cyber security.

* Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: LLNL ’ s Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ( CAMS ) develops and applies a wide range of isotopic and ion-beam analytical tools used in basic research and technology development, addressing a spectrum of scientific needs important to the Laboratory, the university community, and the nation.

Today, LLNL computer scientists focus on creating the highly complex physics models, visualization codes, and other unique applications tailored to specific research requirements.

For Fiscal Year 2009 LLNL spent $ 1. 497 billion on research and laboratory operations activities:

Classified weapon research would take place at Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL ) ( established during the war ) and the new Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), established by Lawrence and Edward Teller from what was originally a splinter from the original Radiation Laboratory.

In November 2001, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) joined IBM as a research partner for Blue Gene.

* 1972-The first neodymium-doped glass ( Nd: glass ) laser for ICF research, the " Long Path laser " is completed at LLNL and is capable of delivering ~ 50 joules to a fusion target.

At a price of $ 25 million and a size approaching that of a football field, the Shiva laser is the first of the " megalasers " at LLNL and brings the field of ICF research fully within the realm of " big science ".

Another area of research was directed into energy weapons, including a nuclear-explosion powered X-ray laser proposal developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in 1968.

LLNL continued to consider more edgy technology but their X-ray laser system development was cancelled in 1977 ( although research into X-ray lasers was resurrected during the 1980s as part of the SDI ).

He joined LLNL in 1980 and has primarily focused his research on laser fusion.

He spent two postdoctoral years ( 1962-63 ) at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago and two years as a research scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California.

Plot of the parameter space occupied by various LLNL neodymium glass lasers used for inertial confinement fusion research.

A huge Monopotassium phosphate | KDP crystal grown from a seed crystal in a supersaturated aqueous solution at LLNL which is to be cut into slices and used on the National Ignition Facility for frequency doubling and tripling.

Experiments are being conducted at LLNL and elsewhere to measure the structural, electrical and chemical properties of plutonium and its alloys and to determine how these materials change over time.

On September 30, 2009, the NNSA announced that about two thirds of the special nuclear material ( e. g., plutonium ) at LLNL requiring the highest level of security protection had been removed from LLNL.

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) decided that direct experimentation was the best way to settle the issue, and between 1978 and 1988 ran a series of underground experiments at the Nevada Test Site ( now known as Nevada National Security Site ), that used small nuclear bombs to directly illuminate ICF fuel components with high-energy X-rays ; LLNL ran its program under the name " Halite ", while LANL ran its as " Centurion ".

LLNL decided early on to concentrate on glass lasers, while other facilities studied gas lasers using carbon dioxide ( e. g. Antares laser, Los Alamos National Laboratory ) or KrF ( e. g. Nike laser, Naval Research Laboratory ).

HP built two semi-truck loads of units before shutting down the HP300 production line to meet customer contractual agreements ( i. e.: encase LLNL wanted more Amigos ).

LLNL had decided early on to concentrate on glass lasers, while other facilities studied gas lasers using carbon dioxide ( e. g. Antares laser, Los Alamos National Laboratory ) or KrF ( e. g. Nike laser, Naval Research Laboratory ).

One such technology, being developed by researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), employs a " sandwich immunoassay ", in which fluorescent dye-labeled antibodies aimed at specific pathogens are attached to silver and gold nanowires.

Retrieved on 2008-03-01 </ ref > Other long-lived isotopes were unsuccessfully targeted by a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in 1988 by bombarding einsteinium-254 with neon-22.

* The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) in Dubna, Russia, led principally by Y. Oganessian, in collaboration with several other laboratories including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), since 2000:

JGI was founded in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in genome mapping, DNA sequencing, technology development, and information sciences pioneered at the three genome centers at University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), and LANL.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center ( FFRDC ) founded by the University of California in 1952.

On October 1, 2007 LLNS assumed management of LLNL from the University of California, which had exclusively managed and operated the Laboratory since its inception 55 years before.

LLNL is also one of three laboratories in the United States where classified work on the science and engineering design of nuclear weapons is undertaken.

LLNL is home to many unique facilities and a number of the most powerful computer systems in the world, according to the TOP500 list, including Blue Gene / L, the world's fastest computer from 2004 until Los Alamos National Laboratory's IBM Roadrunner supercomputer surpassed it in 2008.

On 6 / 18 / 2012, LLNL re-took the lead on the latest edition of the list of the world ’ s Top 500 supercomputers with Sequoia, a 16. 32 petaflops system packing more than 1. 5 million custom Power cores.

The Lab is a leader in technical innovation: since 1978, LLNL has received a total of 118 prestigious R & D 100 Awards, including five in 2007.

LLNL has an annual budget of about US $ 1. 5 billion and a staff of roughly 7, 000 employees.

LLNL was established in 1952 as the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore as an offshoot of the existing University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley.

On March 14, 2011, the City of Livermore officially expanded the city's boundaries to annex LLNL and move it within the city limits.

The unanimous vote by the Livermore City Council expanded Livermore ’ s southeastern boundaries to cover 15 land parcels covering that comprise the LLNL site.

The LLNL campus continues to be owned by the federal government.

Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

The W80, W87, and the B83 are the only LLNL designs still in the U. S. nuclear stockpile.

In March 2007, the LLNL design was chosen for the Reliable Replacement Warhead.