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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It's not for the NIF people it's for people like CM&S, HLS, Alternative Energy and Physics, rememeber them, the backbone of LLNL that's been neglected for decades.
latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/02/obama-stimulus-weatherization.html
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Obama's federal government can weatherize your home for only $57,362 each (LA Times, Feb 18)
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The base idea is to make this a campus atmosphere devoid of the security issues we encounter now. But if any of the expensive overhead is pushed over the fence, it will doom the project. Also, if this program is subsidized out of the lab's budget we'll see overhead rates jump again, driving sponsors for work inside the fence to look elsewhere, and not necessarily just a hop over the fence.
I see some potential good things to happen here, but given DOE/NNSA's record of imposing inane rules and regulations, it will probably fail.
Yes, but just think of all the wonderful paper-pushing jobs created over at DOE with the $57,000 dollars in stimulus money expended on each house. Lovely!
Come to think of it, the energy expended in all the trees cut down to handle the paper forms required by DOE probably makes this venture a net energy loss.