24 Hour Operations
2/24/202612 min
The world’s most demanding science never sleeps.
From facilities that operate around the clock to the people monitoring safety, power, and infrastructure overnight, this episode goes behind the scenes of the invisible operations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that keep critical science moving forward - even when nothing appears to be happening.
Guests featured (in order of appearance):
Cynthia Rivera, Principal Associate Director of Operations & Business, LLNL Robert Scripp, Emergency Management Department Head, LLNL
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 0· Host0:01
It's 3:00 in the morning at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There's no alarm going off, no emergencies, no headlines. On the surface, it seems like nothing is happening, and that's exactly the point.
Cynthia Rivera· Guest0:18
You just assume when you come to work that everything's working. We have other people that actually make that happen.
Speaker 0· Host0:24
It's the work you don't hear about. It's the people you don't hear about. Projects where success is measured by how invisible the outcome is. Across miles of buildings and disciplines, beneath fusion ignition... This is where, for the first time, scientists were able to create a fusion reaction that generated more power than it took in ... exascale computing- Officially home to the world's fastest supercomputer ... planetary defense- A spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid. This is a first for humankind ... and thousands of other interconnected systems. This is the story of the people who keep the science running around the clock. Looking for a career that challenges and inspires? Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is hiring for a senior labor relations advocate, a unified communications engineer, and a laser modeling physicist, along with many other roles in science, technology, engineering,