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DOE restructuring? At least, someone is thinking about it.
NY Times article
DOE restructuring? At least, someone is thinking about it.
NY Times article
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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Some highlights
" Mr. Friedman wrote that the department spent nearly $13 billion a year to run 16 separate laboratories but that only about half of that money went toward actual research, with 49 percent paying for overhead and capital spending. "
I thought we spent
less than 40% on research.
"the department should also reabsorb the agency that handles nuclear weapons, the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was made a separate organization in 2000 because of security concerns. "
Get rid of NNSA? What does NNSA do?
"“have a significant impact” in states like Idaho, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington"
Well at least California and LLNL are safe.
"He warned that “painful” staff reductions were certain to come as Congress sought deep federal budget cuts in the months ahead. "
Sounds about right. Of course this is not just going to hard on LLNL, LANL, but also Argonne, Oak Ridge and so on. Hell even NSF and NIH are going to be hit.
Hope some of it comes to fruition
Hope some of it comes to fruition
November 23, 2011 12:35 PM
Your use of the term "fruition" in connection with research shows you have no concept of what research is. Apply the term to "development" and you're closer to the mark.