Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California

Located in Livermore, California, adjacent to the Lawrence Livermore National Lab Complex, this Sandia facility was established in 1956 to support Lawrence Livermore's nuclear testing program (Sandia Lab, based at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico was established to take the nuclear explosive devices designed by the national labs at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos and turn them into deployable bombs). Within the 60 buildings on 413 acres at Sandia California is the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Laboratory, a rapid-prototype assembly facility originally constructed for nuclear weapons production. There is also a Radiation Detection Materials Characterization Laboratory, which studies and tests detectors for X-rays, gamma rays, and neutrons, as well as a Combustion Research Facility, created in the 1970s, to study the dynamics of fuel combustion.