Another DOE requirement:
Borrowed from LANL BLOG
Borrowed from LANL BLOG
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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Changing the domain name on all LLNL computers will take a massive effort in time, manpower, and money we don't have. It would have to be coordinated to occur at the same time, taking at least a half-day downtime. And then there are applications - some tools will have to be recoded.
In summary - all hell is going to break loose.
Branding! Yeah, that'll save the DOE's poor image.