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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center founded by the University of California in 1952. It is a research and development institution for science and technology.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to:
- Enhance the nation’s defense;
- Reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction;
- And respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance.
LLNL is home to many unique facilities and a number of the most powerful computer systems in the world,
The laboratory was honored in 2012 by having the synthetic chemical element livermorium named after it.
It is primarily funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
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