Last year LANL hired 2,500 workers, the most ever, but that growth is expected to slow even as the lab works toward manufacturing 30 plutonium pits a year for warheads.
Los Alamos National Laboratory reached what federal officials say is a key milestone in developing its first plutonium pit that can be placed in a nuclear warhead as it seeks
Evaluation of the core at California s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory established it as a solid model the lab can use to meet its goal in developing the first usable "war