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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taxpayers-face-17-billion-bill-as-nuclear-
lab-pensions-soar/2011/06/09/AGlcOMSH_story.html
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Taxpayers face $1.7 billion bill as nuclear lab pensions soar
Washington Post, June 14, 2011
Lockheed Martin and other contractors that manage U.S. nuclear facilities stand to reap $1.7 billion in savings next year while the Energy Department pays for their ballooning employee pension costs.
The pension bills of the contractors, which include Bechtel Group and URS, are projected to more than double from $728 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 and increase almost 40-fold from $43 million in fiscal 2001, according to federal auditors.
..For-profit companies also make billions running the labs. Bechtel and Babcock & Wilcox are involved in managing Los Alamos, and Sandia, a unit of Bethesda-based Lockheed, has received $24.8 billion since 1999 to manage facilities including the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to Bloomberg data....
Don't count on those lab pension check from either LANS or LLNS in future decades.