After the collapse of the nuclear reactor program, Argonne turned its attention to a new scientific project.

government canceled Argonne's Integral Fast Reactor program, leaving the United States without a nuclear reactor research and development program for the first time since 1942.ДЄs a laboratory dedicated to the peaceful applications of science, Argonne has played a leading role in coordinating research and development among government, universities, and private industry. Priorities to maintain the United States' preeminence in science and technology. Although the largest budget allocations went to the weapons laboratories, for 50 years Argonne's research and development agenda was driven by Department of Energy (1977).ДЇrom 1946 to 1996, Argonne's staff grew from 1,200 to more than 5,000, while its budget reached $500 million (out of $6.5 billion allocated to the nine national laboratories). Atomic Energy Commission (1946вЂ“1974) and its successor agencies, the Energy Research and Development Administration (1974вЂ“1977), and the U.S. From its inception as a national laboratory, Argonne has been operated and managed by the University of Chicago on behalf of the U.S. Other national laboratories shared this mission, however, and in time, Argonne itself became a multiprogram laboratory conducting basic research in physics, high energy physics, and nuclear physics materials science applied mathematics and computer science and biology, medicine, and environmental sciences. Initially, the Atomic Energy Commission designated Argonne as the commission's principal laboratory for nuclear reactor research and development. government continued nuclear research and development at the University of Chicago by establishing Argonne as the first national laboratory on July 1, 1946. Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab), the laboratory was part of the Department of Energy's nine multiprogram scientific laboratories. Located on 1,700 acres 25 miles southwest of Chicago on Interstate Highway 55, Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S.

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