• Ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent
• Reduce or counter threats to national and global security
• Enhance the energy and environmental security of the nation
• Strengthen the nation’s economic competitiveness

At LLNL, teams of physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers and other researchers work together to achieve technical innovations and scientific breakthroughs and transform these advances into solutions to nationally important problems.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosts 300 to 400 undergraduate and graduate students and some faculty every summer in support of its world-class scientific facilities and staff and in an effort to help train the nation's next generation of scientists and engineers.  (https://www.llnl.gov/llnl/internships/index.jsp)