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Lujan center at LANL gone!

The Lujan center at LANL is now gone. Another great success.

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Anonymous said…
It's gone? where did it go?
Anonymous said…
We must reduce space to satisfy the morons in Washington. Lujan took up space.
Anonymous said…
No biggie.
Who is going to miss it?
Anonymous said…
Who scrapped it?
Anonymous said…
If you axe a center out of LANL, then it's only fair that NNSA axe centers out of Sandia and LLNL. Any suggestions?
Anonymous said…
Yawn.
All together now, big yawn.
Anonymous said…
I think the taxpayers have already spent way too much money studying lujans. NIF can probably study them better anyway.
Anonymous said…
Waiting breathlessly for the lujan EOS data from NIF
Anonymous said…
NIF saw a phase transition at 3 Mbar in lujan but later retracted it. Used the same driver to get 50 Mbar in diamond.
Anonymous said…
Requesting clarification: is lujan also a material, not just the name of a center?
Anonymous said…
August 6, 2014 at 4:49 PM - nope. Just the name of the center. Trying to lighten up the blog a little.
Anonymous said…
And I heard that LANL may have packed the now-unused lujan into barrels with organic kitty litter....and tracked some of it to employees homes.
Anonymous said…
Waiting breathlessly for the Lujan EOS data from NIF

August 5, 2014 at 5:18 PM

LANL had to "bail-out" LLNL (again) by shutting-down Lujan to give NIF a "mission".
Anonymous said…
Forget the LANS team's failure with the recently shuttered Lujan Neutron Center? Did anyone witness the faaaabulous way in which Rich Marquez carried that unlit Olympic torch to the Family Day Picnic? He is soooo manly! He puts Charlie "GQ" McMillan to shame.

Oh, and of course the Olympic torch had to be left unlit for safety reasons, PBI's and all. Gotta keep those juicy LANS executive 20% bonuses rolling in.
Anonymous said…
August 12, 2014 at 11:35 AM

It was a very sad scene, you could see people in crowd looking down. There was a palpable sense of embarrassment and shame. This is what we have become.
Anonymous said…
What? The emperor has no clothes? Who knew?
Anonymous said…
and.....Lujan is back....overhead funded or something along those lines
Anonymous said…
Like skimming every other program at LANL. Gotta keep the mesa alive!
Anonymous said…
Forget the LANS team's failure with the recently shuttered Lujan Neutron Center? Did anyone witness the faaaabulous way in which Rich Marquez carried that unlit Olympic torch to the Family Day Picnic? He is soooo manly! He puts Charlie "GQ" McMillan to shame.

August 12, 2014 at 11:35 AM

Marquez looked like Zorro's Sergeant Garcia. What a disgrace.
Anonymous said…
"and.....Lujan is back.."

Well I should hope so! They need to figure out how to safely package that stuff for disposal before they go out of business.

(lujan)+(organic kitty litter)=bang

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