In light of the recent explosion in Beirut, I've been worried if some sort of explosive accident could take place at LLNL that would be devastating to the nearby community of Livermore or further. Is such an event possible with materials they have?
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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There has been plenty of explosions of the size of Beirut that have happened US such Nevada, several in Texas with fertilizers plants, rocket fuel depots and so on. You see the key is not have such materials in a crowded area but in someplace no one cares about with few people...say New Mexico.
You are safe. You should worry more about Antifa talking over Livermore than a 0.743kT explosion .
If you want to have palpitations over something more credible, look at things like chlorine gas rail shipments to water treatment facilities or farmers using anhydrous ammonia for fertilizing crops.
The folks at the lab are patient enough to make the big booms in Nevada.