What is the relative state of the NNSA laboratories today as compared with eight years ago? We had Chu and Moniz as Energy Department leadership and how much did they change?
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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Moniz and Chu are fine men, but they cared little about NNSA.
He managed to create the single worst relationship with Congress of any former Secretary, and that will be much of his legacy. He will also be remembered for his demands that the department invest in many of his personal hobby areas in green projects. If he paid any interest at all to nuclear weapons, it was not noticed.
Moniz was a darling of the late night talk show circuit, and spent most of two years selling the Iran deal to the Senate. He drove the department hard on global warming and invested much of his time on this political topic. Not sure that he did anything positive for the NNSA, and his blind stubbornness in dealing with DoD has had long lasting damage.
He managed to create the single worst relationship with Congress of any former Secretary, and that will be much of his legacy. He will also be remembered for his demands that the department invest in many of his personal hobby areas in green projects. If he paid any interest at all to nuclear weapons, it was not noticed.
Moniz was a darling of the late night talk show circuit, and spent most of two years selling the Iran deal to the Senate. He drove the department hard on global warming and invested much of his time on this political topic. Not sure that he did anything positive for the NNSA, and his blind stubbornness in dealing with DoD has had long lasting damage.
He managed to create the single worst relationship with Congress of any former Secretary, and that will be much of his legacy. He will also be remembered for his demands that the department invest in many of his personal hobby areas in green projects. If he paid any interest at all to nuclear weapons, it was not noticed.
Moniz was a darling of the late night talk show circuit, and spent most of two years selling the Iran deal to the Senate. He drove the department hard on global warming and invested much of his time on this political topic. Not sure that he did anything positive for the NNSA, and his blind stubbornness in dealing with DoD has had long lasting damage.
November 23, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of Defense Ash Carter honored Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz with the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the department’s highest civilian honor. Secretary Carter presented the award to Secretary Moniz at a ceremony at the Department of Energy (DOE) headquarters in Washington, D.C., in recognition of Secretary Moniz’s leadership in strengthening the partnership between the Department of Defense (DoD) and the DOE in support of vital national security missions.
http://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-defense-carter-presents-dod-distinguished-public-service-award-secretary-energy
The solar collection farm in the northwest buffer has nothing to do with DOE or LLNL. It was financed and built with private money, and is operated and maintained by a private company. LLNL and DOE had nothing to do with its design or construction. Lab employees were not even allowed to go onto the property. From the press release earlier this year...
"The array of solar panels is located on 10 acres in the Laboratory's northwest buffer zone along Vasco Road. Juwi Solar Inc. designed, engineered and is financing and installing the 3.3 megawatt fixed-tilt solar photovoltaic array. In addition, Juwi will operate and maintain the solar energy system.
The facility is expected to generate approximately 6,300 megawatt hours annually. Whitethorn Solar, recently purchased by PSEG Solar Source, will sell the bundled renewable power generated from this system to the Western Area Power Administration through a 20-year purchase power contract and the DOE/NNSA will purchase the renewable power under its current power agreement with Western for Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)."
Seems like a perfect example of the free market republicans like Trump love.
December 13, 2016 at 5:15 PM
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