Or NIF for the layman.
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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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You will be labeled as a bad project manager.
Only at higher levels of management can you do that and be seen as an achiever!
NIF is an experiment, not an achievement!
In light of LANL blowing up a building recently, I'd like to know NIF's potential risks once they fire full power.
I can't believe this comment. With this thinking we'd never have gotten
- Interstate highway system
- Panama Canal
- Trans-continental railroad
- weather satellites
Well, that's the *short* list. I hope there are few people who take this sort of short-term focus.
Yeah and we knew all of these were going to work and actually going to serve a purpose just like our dams. NIF on the other hand is just a dream and a bad one at that. I'd have much rather seem the $5B spend on solar cell arrays on top of everyones homes giving then a surplus of power to be used ar credit during the summer when they need their AC. I wonder how many homes could have had their roofs covered.