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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 size in the Midwest (approximately twice the area of the nearby Fermilab, which hosts the world's second-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 five main areas of focus¹². 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.
• Building and maintaining scientific facilities that would be too expensive for a single company or university, for the use of scientists from Argonne, private industry, academia and other national laboratories, and other nations. Facilities include the Advanced Photon source, the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, and the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System.
• 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 sciences.
• 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.
• Contributing to national security by applying expertise in the nuclear fuel cycle, biology, chemistry, and systems analysis and modeling. Projects include developing highly sensitive instruments and technologies to detect chemical, biological, and radioactive threats and identify their sources.

Argonne scientists and engineers help advance 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 facility awarded 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.³

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.[1]

Photos of Argonne National Laboratory

See also

• Atom Trap at ATLAS
• Canadian Penning Trap Spectrometer
• Enge Split Pole Spectrograph
• Fragment Mass Analyzer
• Gammasphere
• Large Scattering Chamber

References

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External links

• Argonne National Laboratory official website
• White Deer Information
• Advanced Photon Source website
• Environmental Science Division website
• United States Department of Energy

• Argonne National Laboratory is at coordinates 41°42′33″N 87°58′55″W / 41.709166, -87.981992 (Argonne National Laboratory)Coordinates: 41°42′33″N 87°58′55″W / 41.709166, -87.981992 (Argonne National Laboratory)

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