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 can bet that every success or milestone that ANY entity who receives congressional funding will bet touted in news releases. That is how you get the attention of the political machine.
CARES bemoans the fact that 85% of the research is for nuclear weapons research. Well, convince congress and the president to resume testing and maybe NIF will spend more of it's research efforts on non-weapon activities.
Beyond that, the massive PR blitz that NNSA has been putting out is having an effect in making them look brilliant. Tom D'Agostino is spending big money on the best PR agents money can buy and his Madison Avenue gambit is gaining success in the media and with Congress. If you lie long enough and big enough, it eventual begins to gain traction (sad, but true).
NNSA and the for-profit LLCs have won and the employees have lost. Time to call it a game and head back home (and turn off this blog).
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"The NIF will NEVER be shut down...."
That's downright depressing.