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).
20 comments:
We commented on the RFP draft, on the 3161 plan. How did that help? Now it is the SPEIS? Public relations standards dictate they do that but I say : nobody shows up! It is useless!
It is a done deal; our comments wont do it! what can help is pressure on you congress person!
There is still hope for a miracle.
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.
March 12, 2008 11:59 PM
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.
Local dates:
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)
LLNL Newsline 3/13/08:
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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Great conceptional floor plan of the LLNL complex. This may be Y-12 for now but just wait. You're looking at LLNL future and guess what. When buildings go so do all of the people that use them and support them. Hang on. You have three years until utopia has been brought upon you. Not the available space for parks and golf courses for the executives. From the air in 2010 you should see NIF, 132 , the super computer building and 111. There will be no need for anything else. If they stock the pond with bass they may be able to charge a fee for each pound of fish that can be caught and use those funds r to reduce overhead cost.
When NNSA says they will reduce the lab workforce by 20% you need to apply the NNSA 'magic factor' of 2 and double it to 40%.
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.
I think its time to sell the buffer zone property "for profit" to a real estate tycoon and use those funds to tear down all the buildings except those stated in an earlier post. No need for security at this place anymore. Heck we're falling right into the same trap the private sector has already. They hire anyone without an extensive background search, put them in positions where they have access to the most critical information and soon afterwards find out that the very same product is being made in Chine for 1/4 the cost and sold on the open market under a French company. Look how fast they gave clearances to the new LLNS employees in ULM. That was the first test. It's going to be all downhill from this day forward.
Just to make sure some of you under how things are going to be, here the beginning of the end.
The Final Countdown
Forget the BS at the beginning of this wenpage. Whats important is this:
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.
From the LANL blog. Soon to be Livermore, Tracy, Manteca, OaKdale, etc, etc etc
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
March 15, 2008 4:37 PM
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".
word on the street ULM had a off site meeting this weekend to discuss the cutting of another 500 employees and the restructuring of the laboratory. I believe they called it a 100 day plan; you will probly will see hole groups or dividsions collapse into one another and along with building cosolidation; also The Janitors had a meeting with Russo this week, he told them there would be more cut backs; So all you EBAS get ready to learn how to clean toilets.
March 15, 2008 6:26 PM
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.
"You are witnessing the slow motion destruction of Los Alamos. "
America itself is in slow-motion destruction.
March 16, 2008 8:43 AM
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 Director and LLNS, LLC President George Miller - "... I believe Complex Transformation bodes well for this Laboratory. It has been clear for quite some time that the complex needs to consolidate and modernize. The facilities and capabilities necessary for the Cold War are not those required for the future. I am particularly pleased that NNSA’s preferred alternative recognizes and builds upon our unique expertise in nuclear design and engineering, high explosives science, high-energy-density physics, and high-performance computing. I am fully confident that our Laboratory will continue to play a critical role in ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear deterrent for many years to come."
LLNL Newsline March 13, 2008.
Man, how do some of you people even get up in the morning?
The world is not actually coming to an end.
Here's what's to be talked about at the town meetings. I do however see the left out the one and only slide the people of LLNL and surrounding communities are concerned about and that's the one where it dictates the time and place they're going to let the other 535 people go and the lay offs for next year at or around the same times and quantities.
Here's the The Grand Plan without the most important facts.
March 14, 2008 6:48 AM. Most if not all of the so called LLNS ULM TRANSFERRED clearances from previous assignments across the DOE complex. Others came from converted DoD clearances.
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