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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September 10, 2011 11:52 AM
Ok, genius, how much security is worth how much money? What a stupid argument. Compare a subjective feeling (security) with a (reasonably) definite number (cost). An absolutely fallacious line of reasoning. Try another blog where no technical people hang out and you can get away with that crap. The cost is measured most appropriately by goals accomplished. If the goals weren't specified in a measurable way, blame your politicians.
Bush senior, Scowcroft and Schultz counseled less sweeping gestures, but Wormtongue prevailed. Those with fight in their background were much less willing to commit anyone's children.
Lots of heros resulted. God Bless them.