Since the LLNS take over of LLNL, what has been the best news and the worst news that you've heard about the Lab.
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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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Worst - "We regret the necessity of a Reduction in Force"
P.S. It's LLNS, not LNSS
Worst: no real change; more of the same LLNL management
Worst: Hearing that my crappy GL in Z did not get RIF'd
Best: Your (my) application for the VSSOP has been accepted. Adios, suckers.
Best: A great job offer from another company.
Worse: We're $30M short this year 2009 and that could mean 300 people have to go soon.