S&TR Legacy Facilities June 2024: BEYOND THE LEGACIES

Summary

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is undertaking a significant infrastructure modernization effort to replace aging facilities with state-of-the-art research spaces. This involves the complex decommissioning and demolition of legacy buildings, such as the Livermore Pool Type Reactor (LPTR) and Heavy Elements Facility, with demolitions scheduled through 2025-2026. The new Applied Materials and Engineering (AME) Complex, which broke ground in June 2019, has already completed three of its four new buildings, accelerating its capabilities by 15 years and reducing the engineering footprint by 650 square meters. Concurrently, cutting-edge research highlighted includes the LEOPARD system, which has been deployed on NIF since 2010 to protect laser optics, and the SCREAM climate model, which won the 2023 Gordon Bell Prize for achieving 1.25 simulated years per day on an exascale supercomputer. The LIDSS program also significantly expanded its missions to nine in 2023 and grew its team from 15 to over 50, delivering advanced diagnostic rafts to support the assessment of over four-decade-old defense systems.

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