Thursday, April 30, 2020
New Mexico budget crisis.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2020-04-28/new-mexico-finance-secretary-resigns-as-budget-crisis-looms
New Mexico and Santa Fe headed towards a financial crisis. The Los Alamos study group will again suggest closing down LANL as a way to save money for New Mexico since according to them Los Alamos creates poverty. How it does that is beyond me.
Concern as coronavirus threatens Russia's closed ‘nuclear cities’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/concern-as-coronavirus-threatens-russias-closed-nuclear-cities
The head of Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation has expressed concern about the spread of the new coronavirus to three “nuclear cities”, including one that houses a top-secret research institute that helped develop the Soviet atomic bomb.
Overdue investigation
In 2012, did LLNS management present an "intent to dismiss" letter to a young NIF employee just days before he committed suicide? Perhaps an impartial investigation is overdue.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Former LANL staff member in National Academy of Sciences.
Former LANL staff member from T-Div elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Jarzynski, Christopher; distinguished university professor and director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
Chris left LANL sometime after LANS came in.
Jarzynski, Christopher; distinguished university professor and director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
Chris left LANL sometime after LANS came in.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Q-Clearance question
If you lie about something on your own 5 year security update regarding not paying your taxes, bankruptcy, a DWI, drug use, etc., you could have your Q-Clearance removed.
What happens to a person with a Q-Clearance who knowingly lies about someone else who has a Q-Clearance with comparable but untrue allegations? In other words, what happens to employees that purposefully weaponize Q-Clearance information against another employee with false information?
What happens to a person with a Q-Clearance who knowingly lies about someone else who has a Q-Clearance with comparable but untrue allegations? In other words, what happens to employees that purposefully weaponize Q-Clearance information against another employee with false information?
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Los Alamos employees punished
It was just a matter of time ...
Los Alamos employees who have charged the COVID leave code are now getting punished.
Los Alamos employees who have charged the COVID leave code are now getting punished.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
NNSA does not waste any time
NNSA Puts CARES Act Relief Language Into Prime Contracts
"Not much sooner than Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette provided the guidance for doing so, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) added language to its prime contracts for major nuclear-weapon sites for billing the government for paid time off..."
https://www.exchangemonitor.com/nnsa-gets-cares-act-relief-language-prime-contracts/
"Not much sooner than Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette provided the guidance for doing so, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) added language to its prime contracts for major nuclear-weapon sites for billing the government for paid time off..."
https://www.exchangemonitor.com/nnsa-gets-cares-act-relief-language-prime-contracts/
Friday, April 17, 2020
China may have conducted low-level nuclear test
The US state department has claimed China may have secretly conducted a low-yield underground nuclear test, in an accusation likely to further inflame already poor relations between Washington and Beijing.
A report on arms control compliance does not offer proof, but points to circumstantial evidence, of excavations and other stepped-up activity at China’s Lop Nur test site.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/china-may-have-conducted-low-level-nuclear-test-us-report-claims
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Budget cuts and layoffs coming to LLNL?
Are significant budget cuts and layoffs coming to LLNL within months?
https://www.csis.org/analysis/coronavirus-and-changes-fy2021-budget-keeping-cuts-american-defense-spending-perspective
https://www.csis.org/analysis/coronavirus-and-changes-fy2021-budget-keeping-cuts-american-defense-spending-perspective
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Los Alamos gets praised
In her latest update as to what the state was doing to slow down the spread of COVID-19, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase, praised Los Alamos for its efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19. According to current cell phone tracking data compiled by the Descartes Labs, Los Alamos was one of the few counties that showed (through the data) that Los Alamos is taking the governor’s social distancing orders seriously.
https://www.lamonitor.com/content/los-alamos-gets-high-marks-latest-virus-update
National Labs Join Fight against COVID-19
Some of the world’s best scientists and high-tech equipment have been enlisted to find solutions for the viral pandemic.
https://www.machinedesign.com/medical-design/article/21128492/national-labs-join-fight-against-covid19
https://www.machinedesign.com/medical-design/article/21128492/national-labs-join-fight-against-covid19
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Blog rules
Scooby, recently a poster has taken over this blog with comments about the defense industry, which is irrelevant to the NNSA and flouts the rules of this blog. Could you kindly post the blog rules so as to prevent this from happening again? It’s an unfortunate distraction from an otherwise interesting blog.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
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