I know I did. Had nothing better to do than stand out in a parking lot for more than an hour.
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 would be in the car and gone. The guards would need to lock the gates to stop the evacuation.
The lab largely phased out Search and Rescue teams a couple of years ago - citing liability reasons. Meaning if you're injured and trapped inside you'll be left to die.
With the changes in security barriers a few years ago, closing of gates and reductions in staffing you can be assured that not even Lab Fire personnel would be able to reach you in time to treat simple shock or bleeding.
Also note this. A suggestion was floated to add clotting agent kits to the first-aid boxes. Similar to what is used to treat soldiers with severe trauma. Lab medical approved of the idea, but the bean counters nixed it as too expensive. Shows nicely the price they put on employee's lives.
So those 2 hrs outside were more than a waste of time. The whole safety program is a sham. You'd best be taking those hours finding a way to protect yourselves, because the Lab is not going to help you a bit.
Too fricking bad. I have a higher sense of morals than those idiots in ULM that set policies like that. The morons in B111 are welcome to fire me after I save my friends. I'd love to sit in a courtroom with those same friends explaining why a company attempted to murder them and someone got fired for intervening.