Everything about Argonne National Laboratory totally explained
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 size in the
Midwest, (approximately twice the area of the nearby
Fermilab, which hosts the world's highest-energy particle accelerator). 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 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 currently has four main areas of focus. Argonne's focus on these areas is meant to fulfill several governmental responsibilities in the hopes of benefiting the society at large.
- Conducting basic scientific research to further scientists' understanding of the world we live in. Argonne conducts basic experimental and theoretical scientific research in the physical, life, and environmental sciences.
- Argonne is one of the advanced centers for the study and research of energy technologies. Argonne is working to develop and evaluate advanced energy techniques and sciencies.
- Researching and developing solutions to certain environmental problems. Argonne attempts to manage and solve the nation's environmental problems and to promote environmental stewardship in a scientific context.
Argonne scientists and engineers help advance the understanding science, engineering, and mathematics education in the United States by taking part in the training of nearly 1,000 college graduate students and post-doctoral researchers every year as part of their research and development activities. To help fulfill this end, 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.
Argonne in Modern Media
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.
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