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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) DuPage County, Illinois, 1941 (Argonne was named the first National Laboratory in 1946) UChicago Argonne, LLC (UChicago since 1941) 3,532 US$1,100,000,000 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1943 UT–Battelle (since April 2000) [5] 4,368 US$2,130,000,000 Ames National Laboratory: Ames ...
Founded in 1943, the laboratory is now sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UT–Battelle, LLC. [3] Established in 1943, ORNL is the largest science and energy national laboratory in the Department of Energy system by size [4] and third largest by annual budget. [5] It is located in the Roane County section of ...
By this time, Argonne had already been made the first National Laboratory the previous year. Los Alamos would not become a National Laboratory in name until 1981. [16] In the years since the 1940s, Los Alamos was responsible for the development of the hydrogen bomb, and many other variants of nuclear weapons
The term national laboratory may generically refer to any government-operated or -sponsored laboratory. In the United States, laboratories that have "National Laboratory" in their name include: United States Department of Energy national laboratories; Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute
The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) was a suite of research laboratories and pilot plant centers operating at Camp (later Fort) Detrick, Maryland, United States, beginning in 1943 under the control of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command.
In 1994, the United States Department of Energy and the Argonne National Laboratory yielded to public pressure and earmarked $24.7 million and $3.4 million respectively to rehabilitate the site. As part of the cleanup, 500 cubic yards (380 m 3 ) of radioactive waste was removed and sent to the Hanford Site for disposal.
The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1) and the first intended for continuous operation.
The Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab) was a scientific laboratory from 1942 to 1946 at the University of Chicago. It was established in February 1942 and became the Argonne National Laboratory in July 1946. The laboratory was established in February 1942 to study and use the newly discovered chemical element plutonium.