Impact of court' decision on Labs

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-affirmative-action-unconstitutional_n_64789e10e4b0047ed77f8fd4

The Supreme Court declared affirmative action programs at public and private colleges and universities unconstitutional on Thursday in a decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts.
The decision puts an end to systems designed to help Black and Latino students access higher education after centuries of racial discrimination. Colleges and universities will no longer be allowed to seek greater diversity of their student bodies by preferencing race.

Since the labs have extensive programs for students we should ask how this will effect the NNSA lab system. There are also several programs at the labs designed for minority students does this get effected also?

New World order?

 WW3 around the corner or a new world order?

It looks like Putin might be about to fall, which means Russia could fall apart and essentially be integrated into the West or a give up its nuclear arms in exchange for better trade or help with rebuilding Ukraine.

If that happens the only two nuclear powers left are the US and China, right now the US has at least 10-20 times more nukes than China but China is rapidly expanding. If Russia is no longer a threat the next 1-3 years could be the best chance the US has of defeating China in a war. We either tell China to disarm or we go to WW3 and they lose. Either way the US wins, if we do nothing China will continue to grow and at some point we will have another stalemate in the world order for another 80 years.

I always said the whole push to defeat Russia in Ukraine was always about China.

Queering nuclear weapons?

 https://www.thecollegefix.com/researchers-queering-nuclear-weapons-can-strengthen-national-security/

The duo also claim that queer theory, like feminist theory, “shines a light on the harm done by nuclear weapons” by focusing on individuals’ “rights and well-being” over national security.

Change in N3B Los Alamos

 Brad Smith To Succeed Kim Lebak As President/General Manager Of N3B Los Alamos

https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/06/05/brad-smith-to-succeed-kim-lebak-as-president-general-of-n3b-los-alamos/

Titanic safety questions

 The company that sent a tourist submersible to the Titanic wreck has faced safety questions before

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/06/20/missing-titan-submersible-safety

A cheap fix to global warming

Global support for one of the cheapest and most powerful climate actions is accelerating—and it couldn't come at a more urgent time.

 https://phys.org/news/2023-06-cheap-global-gaining.amp

Good boss, bad boss

 Signs of a Good Boss and a Bad Boss

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3734-qualities-good-boss.html#

NNSA a threat to trump's bid?

 Could the NNSA labs be what will figuratively "nuke" Donald Trumps next presidential bid?

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-lacked-power-declassify-secret-100929256.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHJ1ZGdlcmVwb3J0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK1fX5cikn_B68haX47RkAasPNvtwleI2KNsPnQm_uYU0YzgYgbhNFcYuf25qMk7rvnjI2bShQdZb2JCY2Xh-aRYvf9fvBbLlSGdTxtg8v2qTkQ8WLRvfABHfjKJub2pZDlLB7pzZN-RWuX_A4utukIAWd--IzcRlPLGtnUpteWm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even when he was president, Donald Trump lacked the legal authority to declassify a U.S. nuclear weapons-related document that he is charged with illegally possessing, security experts said, contrary to the former U.S. president’s claim.

The secret document, listed as No. 19 in the indictment charging Trump with endangering national security, can under the Atomic Energy Act only be declassified through a process that by the statute involves the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense.

For that reason, the experts said, the nuclear document is unique among the 31 in the indictment because the declassification of the others is governed by executive order.

Read the rest of the story kind of interesting

Where are LANS managers?

 LANS Managers after the Transition to Triad?

It has been years now since the LANS for-profit contractor was removed from LANL. What happened to all the LANS managers popular and not so popular, after Triad took over LANL management? Did they stay more or less in their respective positions, given the boot, blend into the woodwork, or did they become born again Triad managers? 

DOE get two ransom notices

 https://news.yahoo.com/us-energy-dept-got-two-201406903.html

LANL cowboys scientist screw up yet again.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-energy-dept-got-two-ransom-requests-cl0p-data-breach-2023-06-16/
U.S. Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims.

The DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defense-related radioactive nuclear waste, were hit in the attack, which was first reported on Thursday.

WIP was a disaster due to the cowboy scientists at LANL. A bunch of people from LANL have moved to ORNL and made it go cowboy. Nanos was right as long as there are cowboys or scientists at LANL we will have problems. What is done at LANL that cannot be done elsewhere? Yet another scandal.

You guys got rid of Bechtel and here we are 3 yeas latter with cowboys riding horses.

Baking soda as the key to energy storage?

PNNL scientists investigate the promising properties of a common, Earth-abundant salt.

https://scitechdaily.com/unleashing-hydrogens-potential-baking-soda-as-the-key-to-renewable-energy-storage/?expand_article=1

 

Are we really doing this?

According to Business Insider, 

The US is sending $1 billion every year to Russia's nuclear program, despite pledging to cripple its economy with sanctions

 https://www.businessinsider.com/us-1-billion-russia-nuclear-agency-sanctions-ukraine-zaporizhzhia-2023-6

AI vision at ANL

 Over 1,000 scientists, engineers and staff from U.S. Department of Energy national labs, academia, and technology companies discussed the rapidly emerging opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence for science, energy and security....

https://www.anl.gov/article/visionary-report-unveils-ambitious-roadmap-to-harness-the-power-of-ai-in-scientific-discovery

TRIAD violations

 https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/05/31/triad-hit-by-doe-with-preliminary-notice-of-violation-for-5-nuclear-safety-issues-at-plutonium-facility-pf4-in-2021/

Triad Hit By DOE With Preliminary Notice Of Violation For 5 Nuclear Safety Issues At Plutonium Facility PF4 In 2021

Anti LANL activists group go nuclear on each other.

 Anti LANL activists group go nuclear on each other.

Greg Mellos Los Almos Study group continues to lob bombs at the Nuclear Watch group which fires back with missiles. It is amusing watching these two groups in all out exchange to see which will be the last activist group standing. I will live you these little gems from the
paper.

Jay Coghlan NucWatch, has to take a swipe at Greg

"You clearly relish infighting with other activists given your decades-old pattern of attacking those who don’t agree with your self-righteous views. But your very judgment is flawed. This is to be expected given that you are part of the surrender crowd to Putin’s genocidal war in Ukraine (which started in Syria, which started in Chechnya). See "

Greg Mello

"Jay, I am not "infighting" with you. I just don't agree with you. We are not on the same side at all, on most issues."

The peoples front of Judea vs Judean people front.