That's our story and we're sticking to it.
http://www.koat.com/news/wipp-report-bad-notetaking-caused-shutdown/31202342?absolute=true
http://www.koat.com/news/wipp-report-bad-notetaking-caused-shutdown/31202342?absolute=true
The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will have a huge negative effect on the lab. Crazy, juts crazy. He also wants to cut NEA and PBS, this may not seem like a big deal but they get very little money and do great things.
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The fault lies with DOE? That is a hoot! Ask anyone that has ever been a landlord and see if they operate in such an irresponsible manner. The DOE landlord owns the facility and the LANL occupant trashed it, rendering it useless to all occupants. DOE is acting as a responsible landlord and returning the facility to a fully useable condition for all occupants.
The facility is not "trashed." ONE DRUM leaked in one alcove. OK, that's done. Now who is causing the facility to stay closed for three years while endless study and paperwork is concluded to cover everyone's behinds?
"ONE DRUM leaked in one alcove."
It seems that you know more about the situation than what has been disclosed to the public. What you call a "leak" has variously been termed a "rupture" or an "explosion" by DOE. The drum was in "one alcove," but the radiation was spread throughout much of the facility according to DOE. This is no minor accident here, it is the largest screw-up in the history of the nuclear waste program.
Yeah, this one drum was transported from LANL across NM highways to Carlsbad. Would the TRUPACT-II (tightly packed 14 55-gallon drums) have contained the explosion? Of course, not a problem.