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United States Department of Energy National Laboratories

The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers is a system of laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for scientific and technological research. The primary mission of the DOE national laboratories is to conduct research and development (R&D) addressing national priorities: energy and climate, the environment, national security, and health.[1] Sixteen of the seventeen DOE national laboratories are federally funded research and development centers administered, managed, operated and staffed by private-sector organizations under management and operating (M&O) contracts with the DOE.[2] The National Laboratory system was established in the wake of World War II, during which the United States had quickly set-up and pursued advanced scientific research in the sprawling Manhattan Project.

In the web series Stranger Things, a fictional laboratory called Hawkins National Laboratory run by the DOE is located in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana.[50]

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In the show Breaking Bad, Walter White works for Sandia National Laboratories prior to Season One.

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In the 2003 film The , a model of the Gamma Sphere, built at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a detector of gamma rays, is used as the powerful source of gamma rays.[51] The Hulk ends up hurling it through the iconic dome of the Advanced Light Source, which was designed by Arthur Brown Jr. around 1940 for the 184-inch cyclotron.[52]

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Westwick, Peter J. (2003). . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00948-6.

The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947–1974

Energy.gov: Department of Energy National Laboratories website

Science.energy.gov: U.S. Department of Energy; Ten-Year Plans for the Office of Science's National Laboratories

Energy.gov: DOE Budget Page, with link to National Laboratories budgets