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NNSA under trump

 So what do the NNSA labs do under the the 2nd Trump administration ?

What are the odds we will have a test?

Is this the real average?

 $35 per hour seems too low.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Lawrence-Livermore-National-Laboratory-Llnl-Salary#:~:text=As%20of%20Oct%2025%2C%202024,States%20is%20%2435.15%20an%20hour.

Atlantic ocean current collapse

 Leading climate scientists ring alarm bell on key Atlantic Ocean current collapse ...

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/key-atlantic-current-could-collapse-soon-impacting-the-entire-world-for-centuries-to-come-leading-climate-scientists-warn

No Leadership Without Risk

 There Is No Leadership Without Risk

The post  "There Is No Leadership Without Risk" appeared first on New York Times.

https://dnyuz.com/2024/10/20/there-is-no-leadership-without-risk/

Pounding Sand against LLNS?

Please correct me, but it would seem the ONLY way to change contractors at LLNL, since the for-profit takeover in 2007, is for Congress to demand it. In part, that is up to you, a lab worker, or local residents to make it happen. Otherwise, your pounding sand, and LLNS knows it.

American researchers achieve nuclear reactor breakthrough

 

Hello!

Any scientist in this blog, please explain to us why is this considered a breakthrough?

Much obliged.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/american-researchers-achieve-nuclear-reactor-103015064.html

Decreased LANL Fellows

 The American Physical Society only gave two Fellows to LANL this year. 10-15 years the lab would get seven to ten every year. About a month ago one of the lab senior scientists gave a report about the declining number publications at LANL. The trend started around 2006. Before that LANL was the top publishing lab in the DOE system now it has fallen behind LBNL, ORNL, ANL and soon it will be behind PNNL. Another point is that number people at LANL has also grown in terms of people who could publish.