Read the article and ask LLNS how they plan on achieving what is described in the paragraph before last:
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Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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The part about recruiting and retaining the best was choice.
The lab has been an attractive place to work in the past. New hires could be lured with promises of working on critical programs with leading-edge technical resources. And the lab was known for providing job security and excellent benefits. Well that sure as heck is gone and its going to stay gone. Again, why would anyone want to work here. There's nothing left and it's only going to get worse.
It is good to see the lab moving forward with plans to fund raises for its workers and make employee benefits more competitive with those available elsewhere in the Bay Area. There goes your 401k matching funds TCP-2 and with the stock market the way it is, TCP-1 should follow very shortly
The lab is too critical to the nation and the East Bay's economy to allow it to slip into intellectual mediocrity. Maybe, but IMHO if it closed it's gates tomorrow no one would know the difference and some would even be handed bonus checks.
Sec DOE - Sorry sir, they're gone.
Pres - What do you mean - gone?
Sec DOE - We let them go. Fired the whole lot.
Pres - ...
Sec DOE - On the good side, we saved a bundle on our car insurance!