
The recent unprecedented expansion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory workforce will continue for at least another year before leveling out at around 2,0000 employees, a senior lab official told the Los Alamos County Council last week. All told, there are 17,244 people employed at Los Alamos in various capacities from professional National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) scientists and engineers to construction and craft service workers, said Kelly Beierschmitt, the lab’s deputy director for operations. Just five years ago, the…