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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Weapons Programs:
$5.9 billion, $632 million below the President’s request and $396 million below 2007 with cuts to 37specific weapons program accounts.
• New Facilities and the Reliable Replacement Warhead:
Prohibits the development of a reliable replacement warhead until the President has a post cold war strategic nuclear weapons plan necessary to guide transformation and downsizing of the stockpile and nuclear weapons complex away from its expensive Cold War configuration to a more affordable, sustainable structure.
• Construction Mis-Management: DOE construction management has remained on the GAO High-Risk List for seventeen years, improvements must be made before new efforts proceed.
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