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Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
is a science and engineering research
national laboratory
operated by
UChicago
Argonne LLC for the
United States Department of Energy
located near
Lemont, Illinois
, outside
Chicago
. It is the largest national laboratory by size and scope in the
Midwest
. Argonne was initially formed to carry out
Enrico Fermi
's work on
nuclear reactors
as part of the
Manhattan Project
, and it was designated as the first national laboratory in the United States on July 1, 1946. Today it maintains a broad portfolio in basic science research, energy storage and
renewable energy
, environmental
sustainability
,
supercomputing
, and
national security
.
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