Frank Young asked:
What happened to Betsy Mason?
What happened to Betsy Mason?
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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I'm not sure what will happen to the lab/science beat at the newspaper. With so many people leaving, I don't know how they'll manage to fill all the holes. It may be a while before someone is watching the lab consistently again. This was one of the reasons it was a hard decision for me to leave the paper.
I'll send a note to the blog when I have a new email address.
Betsy
Keep in touch.
In reporting the news truthfully as you did over the years, you served your community and your country well. Given the pressures that always emerge to protect the powerful, it must have been difficult for you to publish the unvarnished truth and survive. I always enjoyed reading your columns and found them to be perfectly correlated with my own knowledge of events at the lab.
I would like to join my colleagues in wishing you the very best in the future. May God bless and protect you always.
PS: I was laid off on May 23rd, 2008.