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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America is in serious decline. The whole investment environment has been harmed for many years going forward. This means that lot of Boomer's are going to be facing a harsh retirement future that they never envisioned.
Answer this question: How do you plan on retaining good people attracting the best?
They don't. You can leave now or wait until they lay you off next year. Either way, LLNL is slowly dieing. It's all part of NNSA's Complex Transformation (ie, radical downsizing) plan.
So your retirement plan lost 600 million dollars? Isn't that 62% of the plan value? I think your hosed.
At this rate, TCP1 probably won't last much longer. People who seem to think someone else is watching out for their pension benefits at LLNL are in deep denial. If the US sees an economic downturn for the next four or five years (which seems likely) then TCP1 will not last. It will be frozen by LLNS, the future benefits will be cut, and those in it will be thrown into TCP2 for the remaining years of LLNL service.
Only the LLNL executive pensions, backed up by LLNS with special pension insurance, will remain.
or plan participants will have to contribute.
I have nothing against TCP1 people; I just hope they made the right choice for themselves, though I very much doubt it.