Committee in charge of selecting next LLNL director!

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Note from Scooby: So many people, so much energy, so much money we dont have!
That is the NNSA way!

Here are the names of the Committee appointed by UC President Mark Yudof to select the new LLNL Director:

Norman J. Pattiz, Chairman
Chairman, LLNS Board of Governors
Chairman, UC Regents Committee on
Oversight of the DOE Labs
Chairman, Westwood One

J. Scott Ogilvie
Director
Bechtel Group, Inc.

Bruce B. Darling
LLNS Board of Governors Executive Committee
Vice President Laboratory Management
UC Office of the President

Sidney D. Drell
LLNS Board of Governors
Chair, Mission Committee
Professor & Deputy Director Emeritus
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

William R. Frazer
LLNS Board of Governors Executive Committee
Chair, S&T Committee
Senior Vice President Emeritus
UC Office of the President

Richard W. Mies
LLNS Board of Governors
Chair, Nuclear Weapons Complex Integration
Committee

Bruce D. Varner
LLNS Board of Governors
UC Regent
Partner, Varner & Brandt

Jeffrey Wadsworth
LLNS Board of Governors
President and CEO
Battelle Memorial Institute

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This is the Screening Task Force that will review all nominations and applications received for the LLNL Director position, and will make recommendations to the search committee for its consideration.

Marvin L. Adams
HTRI Professor of Nuclear Engineering; Director,
Institute of National Security Education & Research
Texas A&M University
Chairman, Screening Task Force

Miriam E. John
Former Director, Sandia California
Vice President Emeritus, Sandia National Laboratories

John D. Lindl
Chief Scientist, National Ignition Facility
LLNL

Warren F. “Pete” Miller
Former DOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Cherry A. Murray
(Former LLNL Deputy Director for Science)
Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Per F. Peterson
Professor and Chair of Nuclear Engineering
UC Berkeley

Lawrence H. Pitts
Provost and Executive Vice President
UC Office of the President

John M. Poate
Vice President for Research & Technology Transfer
Colorado School of Mines

Daniel Simmons
UC Academic Senate Representative

C. Bruce Tarter
Former LLNL Director

Elaine Stamman
Staff to the Committee
UC Office of the President

Plutonium Shots on NIF.

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...

Trump is to gut the labs.

The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will have a huge negative effect on the lab. Crazy, juts crazy. He also wants to cut NEA and PBS, this may not seem like a big deal but they get very little money and do great things.

LLNL un-diversity

Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!

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The only two names on this list that matter and who will decide the choice for next LLNL Director while attending a fine, Bacchanalian holiday at the upcoming Bohemian Grove encampment in July....

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*** Norman J. Pattiz, Chairman ***
Chairman, LLNS Board of Governors
Chairman, UC Regents Committee on
Oversight of the DOE Labs
Chairman, Westwood One

*** J. Scott Ogilvie ***
Director
Bechtel Group, Inc.
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"Have my driver discretely park my big, black limousine over by the back lot, Jives. I think the lab natives might be restless tonight."

6/16/2011 6:46 PM

Pattiz's ego and bank account are reflected in the enormous number of grandiose titles that he has.

6/16/2011 7:55 PM

Tarter was at the helm when the NIF overruns were occurring, that will undoubtedly help in picking someone Chu would like.

6/19/2011 4:14 PM

Open Appeal to Sid Drell.

Don't you care that some billionaire is using your name and reputation? Where is your wisdom and vision you have provided to the Labs over the years? Have you lost your senses? Why did you become a part of this charade? Hello!

6/19/2011 5:13 PM

Yes, I agree, it is very sad to see name like Sidney Drell helping the Bechtel profiteers continue their raping and pillaging of the once great national labs.

6/20/2011 10:46 AM

For the record, Marv Adams is a former Los Alamos employee who was highly disgruntled prior to his departure. Pete Miller is also a former Los Alamos employee who I had overheard making disparaging comments about "white people being a dying breed". The only good news is that NO ONE on this "highly esteemed committee" will change the decision that Pattiz and Riley Becthel have already made. Not even his highness Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu. Dr. Chu couldn't even direct the Labs to comply with his salary freeze directive, let alone make a decision.

6/20/2011 6:30 PM

Looking at the composition of these selection and screening panels, its clear UC wants LLNL to be a national "science" lab as opposed to just a nuclear weapons lab like LANL. I guess they got the memo from Dr. Chu.

6/21/2011 7:09 AM

I did not take Chu's comments to be a reflection of the chosen profession of a potential lab director (weapons or otherwise). I took them to be a statement on the credentials (or lack thereof) of the choice made by UC.

6/21/2011 6:27 PM

“[White House Science Advisor] Holdren really wants the Livermore director to be a nationally recognized scientist, as does Chu, and not someone from the nuclear weapons community,” another official told NW&M Monitor...

6/21/2011 7:22 PM

“[White House Science Advisor] Holdren really wants the Livermore director to be a nationally recognized scientist"

Does that mean that the fix is in for Al Gore?

Although that question was double dipped in satire when I wrote it, I would not be totally shocked if Al was in the running. He does have a Nobel Prize and he is published. As the inventor of the internet he'd be a great resource to Computations. He's photogenic. He's a Chu-in.

6/21/2011 9:27 PM

Stop it 9:27 pm, you're killing me.

6/21/2011 11:21 PM

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