Morphing The National LabsLLNL- You're Next
Did you get your invitation? Do you think they'll tell the city there's a plan to let 535 more people go shortly, right after DOE's approval; of which I'm sure they'll get without an arguement?
If you haven't been told you may have read your local newspaper and noticed you've been invited to a townhall meeting in Tracy . After the meeting please visit the Complex Transformation website. Please feel free to give any and all comments that you may have by sending them to complextransition@nnsa.doe.gov
Comments can be submitted in writing to: .
Mr. Theodore Wyka at: Complex Transformation SPEIS Document Manager,
Office of Transformation, NA-l0.l, U.S. Department of Energy/NNSA . "
1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20585; or
by facsimile to 1-703-931-9222, or bye-mail to:
complextransformation@nnsa.doe.gov
Please mark envelopes and e-mails as "ComplexTransformation SPEIS Comments" More information is available at www.ComplexTransformationSPEIS.com
If you require special assistance at the public hearings, please contact
Mr. Wyka at 1-800-832-0885 (ext. 63519).
Comments
It is a done deal; our comments wont do it! what can help is pressure on you congress person!
Maybe a congressperson will meet with the president and stop the firings.
Maybe the bechtel folks will be caught up in a prostitution ring and be forced out of the contract.
Maybe George will just say no to the firings, stalling the process at the risk of his own job.
Maybe our Army will return from overseas and take control of LLNL.
In other words there is NO hope at all. Some of what you've mentioned has been done, some is an everyday thing and finally the last one is a joke. Ah,that's it. This entire transition is a joke. A very bad one, but it is a joke. Thankyou for bringing this issue to light.
Tracy, California, Holiday Inn Express, 3751 N. Tracy Blvd.,
Tracy, CA, Tuesday,
March 18, 2008 (6 pm - 10 pm)
Livermore, California, Robert Livermore Community Center, 4444 East Avenue,
Livermore, CA,
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 (11 am - 3 pm and 6 pm - 10 pm)
The series of public hearings on NNSA’s Complex Transformation come to Tracy and Livermore next week.
The hearings take place Tuesday, March 18, 6 to 10 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Tracy, and Wednesday, March 19, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. at the Robert Livermore Community Center in Livermore. Laboratory employees may submit comments on the plan during the hearings.
Complex Transformation is NNSA’s vision for a smaller, safer, more secure and less expensive nuclear weapons complex that leverages the scientific and technical capabilities of the workforce and meets national security requirements.
During the hearings, NNSA will discuss its preferred alternative, which designates the Lab as a center of excellence for nuclear design and high-density physics; a supercomputer platform host site for the Sequoia petascale machine; and a high explosive research and development center, with the High Explosive Applications Facility for formulation, process and confined testing. Under the preferred alternative, work at Site 300 would be consolidated to another site, and special nuclear materials would be removed from the Superblock.
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When NNSA says they will do this reduction in 10 years, you need to again apply the 'magic factor' of 2 and halve it to get 5 years.
Staffing reductions of 40% within 5 years. That's what you're looking at so get ready for it as best you can.
The Final Countdown
TRANSFORMATIONATRANSFORMATIONAL
CHANGES (Cont.)
• Reduce buildings and structures supported by NNSA’s weapons account by 30%; and
• 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.
The picture on the left shows the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The graphic on the right shows Site 300, at which NNSA proposes to cease weapons
account activities by 2015.
The real estate market in Los Alamos is now closed. Almost no one who lives here will be able to sell their home over the next decade. The coming 20% staff reductions (which will likely be much higher) are going to see to it that this town quickly stagnates. Those who lose their job in the coming RIFs will be facing a bleak future of bankruptcy.
Worst of all, the TCP1 pension is likely to suffer the same fate as many other sectors of the financial market in the current economic meltdown. What do you think the chances are that TCP1 is holding toxic mortgage backed securities? I would say the odds are high. Note how silent LANS has been about given the staff any real peak into the state of the pension. Even the release of information for 2007 (required by law to be issued by this summer) will not give a hint of the true devastation to the pension that likely is occurring right now and throughout 2008.
The smart ones took their UCRP pension, cashed out with a lump sum and safely invested the money. Being mostly older staff, they also likely own their homes. The rest of us are in for a rude financial shock that, I assure you, is going to be life-changing. You are witnessing the slow motion destruction of Los Alamos. Prepare as best you can.
Thanks for nothing, NNSA.
3/15/08 12:43 AM
Just got off the phone with my realtor who attended a realtors national meeting. The prediction is 7-9 years for small towns to recover from the housing slump and 13-17 years for large cities. Interest rates to go up in May of this year with two more years of foreclosures and a long hard road to recovery. So far everything she has informed me of for the last year has come true so I have no doubt to not believe in her now. I hope you like your neighbors because you're going to be there for a very long time, and your home IS going to depreciate by at lease 50%. Enjoy the rest of your lives people and believe what you want, but the words at the meeting were. We are in a recession and soon to be a depression is things continue as they are in a downward spiral. I hope many of you have concealed carry permits and are proficient in gun control defined as, " hitting your mark".
Only 500? It's was to be 535 to make the numbers required match. Expect more next year too since LLNL is already $69M in the hole. Down-sizing is a wonderful thing. Remember. We still have between 20- 30 % more to go.
America itself is in slow-motion destruction.
Want to bet. You better do some reading my fiend. America is in a recession and soon to be a depression so hang in there. It going to be a bad, long 13-17 years to come.
LLNL Newsline March 13, 2008.
The world is not actually coming to an end.
Here's the The Grand Plan without the most important facts.