What is Argonne National Laboratory?

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Aerial photo of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy's oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is the largest in the Midwest, about twice as large as the nearby Fermilab. The laboratory is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, which is composed of the University of Chicago, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT). It is located on 1,700 acres (6.9 km²) in DuPage County, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Chicago, Illinois on Interstate Highway 55. When it was first established it was known as the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) and it was previously located within Red Gate Woods. Early on the lab was part of the Manhattan Project which built America's first atomic bomb.

Argonne has four major mission areas, each of which fulfills important governmental and Department of Energy responsibilities, as well as provides benefits to society at large. They are:
  • Conducting basic scientific research to further our understanding of the world we live in. Argonne conducts basic experimental and theoretical scientific research in the physical, life, and environmental sciences.
  • Operating national scientific facilities to help advance the United State's scientific leadership. Argonne operates world-class research facilities like the Advanced Photon Source.
  • Enhancing the nation's energy resources. Argonne is working to develop and evaluate advanced energy technologies.
  • Developing better ways to manage environmental problems. Argonne is at the forefront in developing new ways to manage and solve the nation's environmental problems and to promote environmental stewardship.
Argonne scientists and engineers consider it their responsibility to help the public understand science and to enhance science, engineering, and mathematics education in the United States by helping to train nearly 1,000 college graduate students and post-doctoral researchers every year as part of their normal research and development activities. To help fulfill this mission, Argonne National Laboratory was recently the awarded facility to receive the IBM Blue Gene/P. The Blue Gene/P is predicted to be the first supercomputer to operate at a speed faster than one petaflop.[1]

Significant portions of the 1996 chase movie Chain Reaction were filmed in the Zero-Gradient Synchrotron ring room and the former Continuous Wave Deuterium Demonstrator laboratory.[1]

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References

1. ^ Curry, Jessica. "Blue Gene Baby", Chicago Life, 2007-08-12. 

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