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Remove CAT I/II quantities of special nuclear material from the site by the end of 2012 and achieve down-grading of “Superblock” buildings 332 & 334;
Translation: Get the job done ahead of schedule and get this stuff to LANL or Pantex. Close the Pu facility down, fast.
Reduce acreage supported by NNSA’s weapons account by 90% with a status change for Site 300;
Translation: Buildings will be torn down at LLNL and site 300 will become a golf course for the executives of LLNS with artificial turf , no water required
Reduce buildings and structures supported by NNSA’s weapons account by 30%; and
Translation: 30% less building equals 30 % less people, NOT, including those that will be gone by April 2008. You figure out the numbers. Can you say 10% in 2008 or more, plus 30% to come and it will not happen by normal attrition. That's a 40% reduction so far, but wait.
Over a decade or so, up to 20% fewer staff supporting nuclear weapons activities. These reductions are expected through natural attrition and transfer of personnel to other positions supporting essential national security needs.
Translation: Well we have 10% in 2008, 30% more to come afterwards and 20% more after that, There we go a 50% reduction in force bringing the work force to approximately 4000 people and most will not be FTE's.
And today the president announced a massive reduction in the nuclear weapons stockpile.
This and what seems to be a killing-off of the RRW would be the end of any significant need for designers. With them go all the supporting programs. What's left is not worth keeping LLNL around at all for. Sad, but true.
Did anyone see a thank-you note from some dolphins ( Douglas Adam's reference for the humor impaired )?
1.) George Miller said we were in the hole $300M so is the $100M I am reading about included in this $300M or are we now $400M in the hole.
2.) If so is the $300-$400M debt going to be made up entirely by getting rid of people or is LLNS going to make that $400M up by shutting down buildings and then removing them, so there is no floor space taxes, property taxes, upkeep, etc, etc, etc.
3.) When Bruce Goodwin gave his little talk last week and said he was $70M in the hole was that knowing about this $100M more or has that $70M now grown to many millions more which will translate into getting rid of more people.
In my opinion it is time for LLNS and ULM to tell us real number and real facts, all of them, not little bits and pieces of BS that we can all ponder on for months wondering what the heck are these people in ULM doing, or, do they even know what they are doing. How about getting ULM to give us the very same word for word information they are getting at the top. Why all the secrecy? They know a lot more than they're telling us and I for one am tired of the unknowns.
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My take:
Remove CAT I/II quantities of special nuclear material from the site by the end of 2012 and achieve down-grading of “Superblock” buildings 332 & 334;
Translation: Get the job done ahead of schedule and get this stuff to LANL or Pantex. Close the Pu facility down, fast.
Reduce acreage supported by NNSA’s weapons account by 90% with a status change for Site 300;
Translation: Buildings will be torn down at LLNL and site 300 will become a golf course for the executives of LLNS with artificial turf , no water required
Reduce buildings and structures supported by NNSA’s weapons account by 30%; and
Translation: 30% less building equals 30 % less people, NOT, including those that will be gone by April 2008. You figure out the numbers. Can you say 10% in 2008 or more, plus 30% to come and it will not happen by normal attrition. That's a 40% reduction so far, but wait.
Over a decade or so, up to 20% fewer staff supporting nuclear weapons activities. These reductions are expected through natural attrition and transfer of personnel to other positions supporting essential national security needs.
Translation: Well we have 10% in 2008, 30% more to come afterwards and 20% more after that, There we go a 50% reduction in force bringing the work force to approximately 4000 people and most will not be FTE's.
That should do it folks.
And today the president announced a massive reduction in the nuclear weapons stockpile.
This and what seems to be a killing-off of the RRW would be the end of any significant need for designers. With them go all the supporting programs. What's left is not worth keeping LLNL around at all for. Sad, but true.
Did anyone see a thank-you note from some dolphins ( Douglas Adam's reference for the humor impaired )?
Okay I need some answers.
1.) George Miller said we were in the hole $300M so is the $100M I am reading about included in this $300M or are we now $400M in the hole.
2.) If so is the $300-$400M debt going to be made up entirely by getting rid of people or is LLNS going to make that $400M up by shutting down buildings and then removing them, so there is no floor space taxes, property taxes, upkeep, etc, etc, etc.
3.) When Bruce Goodwin gave his little talk last week and said he was $70M in the hole was that knowing about this $100M more or has that $70M now grown to many millions more which will translate into getting rid of more people.
In my opinion it is time for LLNS and ULM to tell us real number and real facts, all of them, not little bits and pieces of BS that we can all ponder on for months wondering what the heck are these people in ULM doing, or, do they even know what they are doing. How about getting ULM to give us the very same word for word information they are getting at the top. Why all the secrecy? They know a lot more than they're telling us and I for one am tired of the unknowns.
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