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Open letter of support from LLNL and LANL?

Many of the UC campuses, including UCLA, are having protests in support of Gaza. Many of these protests are coming under attack from outside forces and police.


A number of faculty at universities all over the nation have signed open letters supporting the student and condemning the police actions. Since LANL and LLNL are partially under UC management, should they also create an open letter in support of the protests? Should the labs also have some encampments?


I looked at the open letters; thousands of faculty members signed the letters, but I needed more from the physics or engineering departments. You get 95% of the anthropology department to sign these letters and zero from EE. Weird.

The second whistleblower linked to Boeing dies

 Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Dead, the Second in 2 Months: ‘He Possessed Tremendous Courage,’ Lawyers Say

https://people.com/boeing-linked-whistleblower-dead-the-second-in-2-months-8642445

YUCCA Mountain news

 According to thebulletin.org,

To really advance federal policy and innovation on spent nuclear fuel, congress needs to learn the lessons of Yucca Mountain and to stop trying to revive it.

https://thebulletin.org/2024/04/to-find-a-place-to-store-spent-nuclear-fuel-congress-needs-to-stop-trying-to-revive-yucca-mountain/

The new-wave reactor technology

The US is banking on it.

 https://www.eastidahonews.com/2024/04/new-wave-reactor-technology-could-kick-start-a-nuclear-renaissance-and-the-us-is-banking-on-it/

Nuclear fusion

 Two of the key barriers to producing power from nuclear fusion have been overcome, in what scientists say is a major advance towards producing near-limitless clean energy.

Can one of you scientists unpack this for us?

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nuclear-fusion-plasma-clean-energy-b2534500.html

LLNL in the news

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/18/pentagon-speeding-work-first-new-nuclear-warhead-4/

Pentagon speeding up work on first new nuclear warhead in 40 years
Nuclear threats from China, Russia drive work on W93 for submarine-launched missiles by 2030s

The world’s largest digital astronomy camera ever

After two decades of work, engineers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are celebrating the completion of the world’s largest digital astronomy camera ever.

 https://thedebrief.org/does-slac-national-accelerator-laboratory-completes-worlds-largest-digital-astronomy-camera-ever/