Learn to use a glovebox at Los Alamos National Laboratory

About this episode

This episode features a magazine writer's hands-on experience as a glovebox worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Want to spend some time in someone else’s gloves? Tune in to the National Security Science podcast to hear a magazine writer get (literal) hands-on experience as a glovebox worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Gloveboxes are sealed, steel compartments with gloves attached to their openings. Technicians insert their hands into the gloves to carry out a wide variety of processes involving radioactive materials, including the making of plutonium pits, the cores of nuclear weapons. In this episode you can also test your Los Alamos National Laboratory knowledge with questions from the television gameshow Jeopardy. It’s all part of National Security Science magazine’s “Knowledge” issue, available in print and online at https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/national-security-science.

Topics covered

• glovebox
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• radioactive materials
• nuclear weapons
• Jeopardy

Keywords

• plutonium pits
• Knowledge issue
• science

Mentioned in this episode

Products: glovebox

Books & works: Jeopardy, Knowledge

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