As LLNS is approaching its two year point, which senior manager will be next to announce he/she is deserting this sinking ship?
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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If you rented a house here and left your family at home, it's a good sign you have no intention of staying.
The LANL blog commentary kept up a drum roll on this topic running up to LANS' two year anniversary. There was no mass departure (of ULM) there, and I'm doubtful there will be one here, either.
LLNS lost the original CAS key team member (cannot remember his name), then lab counsel Melissa Allain, then Pam Horning as head of Nuclear Ops, then Russ Miller as head of Security, then Dave Leary as AD for Ops & Business, then Steve Patterson as AD for Engineering, then Tammy Jernigan as head of HR (sorry, SHCM), now Cherry Murray as PAD for S&T, Allen Macenski for ESH&Q, and probably Doesburg as PAD for GS.
All he did was cause some good folks to leave.
That's apparently the NNSA plan. It's called Complex Transformation and, by God, it's working!