To extend, or not to extend?
The NNSA grades for LLNL and LANL are due by the end of the month, along with the local federal office recommendation for contract extension of another year. Last year, LANL was not recommended for extension, but the decision was overturned by Neile Miller at NNSA. New leadership is in place at NNSA this year and this first decision will be closely watched.
LANL could find the going hard in light of the months long work stand down at TA 55 for crit safety. The grade this year might provide insight as to how NNSA values the Pu work.
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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With no extension of the labs LLC contracts, will our pension be handed over to the next LLC contractor: "Larry's Low-Cost Auto Shop & Lab Management LLC"?
September 7, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Wow! It did not take long for someone to turn the discussion away from what is best for the country and the long term interest of the Lab toward what is best for the immediate term benefit of the individual employee. Would it be asking too much for NNSA leadership to make the determination on what was best for the country?
Where the hell have you been. It's never been about what's right for the country since the take-over by Rechtel of LANL and LLNL. It's always been about benefits and pension. There is nothing more important than these two things when they're in the hands of a seek and destroy for profit hatchet man corporation and there never will be.
Enough of the "Rechtel" garbage; please get a new gig, this one is really annoying. You obviously have nothing intelligent to contribute to this blog, so just go away and stew in your own juices - it is all you deserve if you cannot offer a single new or useful thought.
Could you PLEASE say why the Rechtel thing is garbage and why it is annoying? Some of us may find that it is an intelligent and useful contribution. Just because you do not like something does not mean you have the right to tell the whole world you don't like it. Why are you so special and smart? Besides saying stuff annoys you have you ever contributed one thing that anyone else would say in intelligent or insightful?