" 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.
NNSA was always a bastard agency. It should either be an independent entity (a la AEC, vastly preferred), or absorbed back into DOE, where it will be vulnerable to know-nothing Republican plans to ship the nuclear weapons work to DoD. Such a plan would ignore decades of civilian control of nuclear weapon research and development that began in the late 1040's for good reasons that today's idiots forget or never learned.
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.
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Wow! This could be the big one folks.
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" 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.
Here we go again – must be another Presidential election coming up. Wake me if there’s any real change.
NNSA was always a bastard agency. It should either be an independent entity (a la AEC, vastly preferred), or absorbed back into DOE, where it will be vulnerable to know-nothing Republican plans to ship the nuclear weapons work to DoD. Such a plan would ignore decades of civilian control of nuclear weapon research and development that began in the late 1040's for good reasons that today's idiots forget or never learned.
Is Jerry Freidman still at DOE? Jeeezzz! Retire Jerry retire!
http://www.slideshare.net/govloop/colin-powells-18-lessons-for-leadership
DOE restructuring == Massive job reductions at the DOE/NNSA labs.
$6.5B on research each year? Wow.
Hope some of it comes to fruition
$6.5B on research each year? Wow.
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.
DOE and restructuring. An oxymoron.
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