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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Last time I checked, Wallmart did not stock nuclear, biological, chemical weapons material on their shelves.
Even if you don't work there, there is a real danger to people living nearby.
LLNL is in big trouble. Part of physical security is loyalty to your employer and there is absolutely none left. People might stop a rogue worker, ignore them, or join in.
If it happens in my area I'll protect my friends. Management is on their own.
Being laid off for someone whose only job was at LLNL means to him/her the end of the line. I will not be surprised if someone breaks down.
http://www.edd.ca.gov/warn/eddwarncnal08.pdf
Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy decade.
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These are just numbers that we already know. Where's the RIF # for decades to come? However, I would expect to see a replay of this next year. When LLNL head count gets down to 4000 or about 50% of where we were when LLNS took over we may be in god shape but with all the Pu leave maybe by the end of 2009 and weapons going to take a 20% cut again I would say the head count could be even far less. Yes this RIF's will continue until the missions LLNS was tasked to do is complete. Do yourself a favor and use what ever time you have left to look for employment outside LLNL and prepare to relocate.
Well, the 3161 only allows for 100 "career" employees in a rolling 12 month period - the 49 a month comes from flex and contractors. basically phillips or flathead. We are all screwed.