LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
KEY FACILITIES
Chemistry Division Facilities
TA-46
TA-46, historically the site of LANL chemistry activities, added a new two-story office building. TA-46 is a non-nuclear facility. It includes the Chlorine Storage Building (Building 340), part of the Sanitary Wastewater Treatment Facility, which is located in a canyon in TA-46.
Building 24 is used for experimental work involving lasers and UF6. The Electronics Laboratory, also called the Hydraulics Laboratory (Building 30), Test Building 2 (Building 31), and the Aerochemistry/Diagnostics Building, also called the Laser Isotope Separation Building (Building 41), the Laser Laboratory (Building 76), the Laser-Induced-Chemistry Laboratory (Building 158), and the Analytical Chemistry Building (Building 250) are used for experimental laser work.
The Physical Chemistry Laboratory, also called the Applied Photochemistry Building (Building 154), covering 5,000 square feet, is prefabricated metal structure primarily used for conducting large-scale photochemical experiments. The Chemistry/Laser Laboratory, also called the Fourier Transform Spectrometer Facility (Building 200), with an area of 3,340 square feet, handles radioactive materials used for spectroscopic study of atoms and molecules, applied photochemistry, and photophysics. The Accelerator Vault Building (Building 161) is used for experimental work involving an accelerator and lasers. The Free-Electron Laser Laboratory (Building 208) is used for experimental work and has a radiofrequency generator.
TA-46 has over one hundred fifteen other buildings for house administrative, technical, general storage, experimental science, and physical support functions.
Materials Testing Laboratory
The Materials Testing Laboratory (MTL) develops test protocols and tests process materials using chemical or physical analyses. Commercial products used during War Reserve (WR) manufacturing that come into contact with WR components but do not become part of the them or the final product. These products must be certified by the War Reserve Materials Compatibility Board (WRMCB) for compatibility to prevent adverse interaction.
It was originally under the Applied Chemical Technologies Group (C-ACT), within the Chemistry Division, which had a primary mission of developing instrumentation and methods for advanced chemical processing and manufacturing. As of 2008, it is run by the Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering (C-CDE) group. It continues to support the pit manufacturing materials compatibility testing requirements. It is used to examine the effects of different processes and process materials on the final product, primarily in nuclear weapons manufacturing.
Biological & Chemical Technology Lab
The Biological & Chemical Technology Lab (BCTL), originally a C-ACT facility, was used in the research and development of instrumentation to identify and extract DNA and pathogens from various organic and inorganic materials.It developed the DNA Quantifier, a field-portable device, for the F.B.I.
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