Argonne National Laboratory
Research laboratory in Illinois, US
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is a federally funded research and development center in the Downers Grove Township of DuPage County, Illinois, United States, with a Lemont address. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and operated by the University of Chicago through its subordinate UChicago Argonne LLC. It is the largest national laboratory in the Midwestern United States. Argonne had its beginnings in the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, formed in part to carry out Enrico Fermi's work on nuclear reactors for the Manhattan Project during World War II. After the war, it was designated as the first national laboratory in the United States on July 1, 1946. In its first decades, the laboratory was a hub for peaceful use of nuclear physics; nearly all operating commercial nuclear power plants around the world have roots in Argonne research. More than 1,000 scientists conduct research at the laboratory, in the fields...
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