So, did anyone else notice the "free" Hand Sanitizer the lab is handing out is EXPIRED?
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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Given LLNS mind-set, handing out out-of-warranty materials to it's slave worker class makes perfect sense. Especially during a growing flu pandemic.
Come over here, GM. *COUGH*
1. It didn't have a lovely yellow bar code sticker on it.
2. That I was not required to take web class on how to use it.
I suppose that that after all the bottles are used up and tossed, some idiot from NNSA will come up with a finding that it was hazardous material and that we should have had stickers, classes and triple bagged it before putting the empty container into a stainless steel barrel and shipped off to a hazardous waste dump. Fines will be levied, congress will hold hearings. Bechtel will lose bonus money and then figures it would be cheaper to let people get sick or die.
And the sad thing is that imagined scenario is plausible.
"And the sad thing is that imagined scenario is plausible."
It is not only plausible, it is likely. We need to reduce the NNSA staff to the level that DOE-SAN had when I first came to the Lab in the early 1980s--a handful of clueless bureaucrats who were happy to have a cushy job and didn't get in the way of real science.
Plausible except that Bechtel will keep the bonus
Just as there are reasons to get your measurement and test equipment calibrated. Otherwise, you are just practicing risk management.