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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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More likely, the lower accident rate was due to less real work being done. This look good now, but wait until this lack of substantive work catches up to us.
Can you say, "the excuse ULM's been looking for to get LLNL down by 50% more people than it already is". No work, no need for people, do you people get it yet. Don't worry it will all happen in due time. Even NIF will be down-sizing in the future. Once the stars are aligned and it's handed over to jacobs the need for the number of people they have onboard will be diminished.
This is referred to as "Work-free Safety Zones". WFSZ's are popping up all over the place and this helps make the accident stats keep looking better and better.
Couple this with a new corporate culture that punishes people when they log any accidents. Your bosses don't want to hear about it. Break a leg at work? Then best drag yourself to your car and get to a hospital and keep quiet if you want to keep your job.
Sadly, this is the new reality under LLNS "for-profit" management.