Barrack likes him...
http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/news/2512.htm
http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/news/2512.htm
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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As one of the possible replacements said, "Anybody smart enough to do this job would not be dumb enough to take it."
What is not so obvious is that the key staff for D'Agostino have abandoned ship a long time ago. One is currently employed by LLNL.
The weapons complex has never seen such dark days.
However, it involves something like oh, safeguarding the nation...
September 7, 2009 8:25 PM
I hate saying this, but they are about to get even darker. Now that Tom D'Agostino has been re-elected to his position, you can expect him to roll out Stage II of his Complex Transformation plan. It won't be good for the existing NNSA weapon lab employees.