Where will NNSA make pits? Will it be in SC or NM? https://www.abqjournal.com/1111040/nm-reps-push-back-at-lanl-skeptics.html
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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“Making matters worse, such a disruptive relocation of the plutonium mission is likely to introduce new, unpredictable risks to the safety of workers and communities into an already challenging enterprise,” they added.
So there’s going to be a big “accident” if you don’t do exactly what we say. Total blackmail.
Also, when is LANL going to admit they don’t do science anymore and they’re more focused on the technican level worker?
Sandia has already done this with their C student UNM engineering task force.
I would respond but the moderators will not allow it.
"Also, when is LANL going to admit they don’t do science anymore and they’re more focused on the technican level worker?"
This statement is false and be be easily checked by publication numbers. In fact you or someone like you made this argument earlier this year and we went through all the numbers that proved you wrong. LANL publishes twice as many papers in any single year than LLNL and in fact of the DOE labs only ORNL publishes more than LANL. LANL is a science lab, however it could also be a science lab and a production at the same time, or they could just split it off like Y12 and ORNL.
Should I go back and dig up all the publication data yet again? Every six-months someone says something incredibly dumb like
"LANL does not do science" . We go through all the numbers and troll vanishes for a bit. Why not just admit you are wrong or do you need your ass handed to you again? It is getting old. Here is a simple question for you, if LANL is not a science lab than why would UC, UTexas, TexasAM and Purdue want to manage it?
The gauntlet has been laid down, do you still want to persist with this nonsense that LANL doesn't do science anymore? This will end that exact same way it ended for you the last time, evidence has a tendency to do that.
The other reason for the decline is that many Chinese institutions are now in the highest ranks. This is a failure of the US Gov to pursue science. They made it super expensive to do science at LANL and then didn’t want to pay the extra cost. Also bad leadership was left in place far too long by the Obama Administration. At the end of Bush II many good people were flushed out of government and difficult to replace because of widespread disgust with Bush Administration.