..for three reasons: the number one is our national security mission;

number two is the excellent people I get to work with every single day;

and the third is the cutting edge technology that I get to work with.

There’s nothing like it!

One of the coolest things that I get to do at Lawrence Livermore is produce this chart

that shows how energy is used in the United States.

I do nuclear weapons research with equipment like this.

I’ve been able to work on a whole variety of topics, everything from high explosives,

to biological molecules,

to growing these big 700 pound crystals for the National Ignition Facility.

We were able to leverage our knowledge of what we’ve learned in the Human Genome Project

and come up with entirely new ways of designing signatures… DNA-based signatures,

to detect pathogens.

I examine environmental samples, looking for chemical, biological, and nuclear threats.

Wind turbines are an area of emphasis here.

I love my job because I get to blow things up for a living.

Almost every great physicist of the 20th century worked at the national labs.

I came here to work with the modern-day Jonny Van Nuemann, Enrico Fermi, or Edward Teller.

I get to work with great collaborators.

You work with the smartest people in the world.

Scientists that are better than any in the world.

My coworkers really made me feel like part of a family.

I first started working here as a student intern..

developing software for some of the world’s largest and fastest supercomputers.

This is one of the state of the art instruments, one of about 25 in the world.

The National Ignition Facility, the world’s largest laser. It’s 192 beams…

pointed at a target this big.

I’ve been working on the National Ignition Facility for 10 years...

..and every day I come to work it’s like going to the playground.

We were building a system that was used for the 2002 Winter Olympics

and while we building that system, we had to deploy it..

..for the anthrax letter attacks.

It’s people from engineering and physics and biology.

You use much more of your degree than you ever thought you would.

Great people that love to solve real problems.

Important implications for the national security of our country.

My name is Zhi, I’m a physicist. I’m making the world safer.

My name is Bahrat Chitarman. I’m a software engineer.

I’m Omar. I’m a nuclear weapons design physicist.

I’m Crystal. I’m a physicist. I’m Joyce. I’m a systems engineer.

I’m AJ, an energy systems analyst.

I’m Dave. I’m a nuclear weapons researcher.

My name’s Chris. I’m a software team lead.

I’m Libby. I’m a chemist. I’m Don and I’m a chief engineer.

My name is Peter Webber and I’m a physicist I’m Terry. I’m a physical chemist.

I’m Mike. I’m a bio-defense analyst, and I’m making the world safer.