What does the president's fy13 budget proposal mean for Llnl?
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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End result should be flat-line funding, expect that the "Super Agreement" made last summer is on a path to result in massive cuts to defense related budgets (inc. NNSA) and those big cuts begins on January 2013. With the dead-lock in Congress it looks like those cuts will, indeed, begin to happen. That's what you should be concentrating on instead of the largely meaningless FY2013 Obama budget.
February 20, 2012 10:06 PM
Absolutely correct. With Congress deadlocked, don't worry about what they might do. Worry about what they won't do.
There were press reports that Chu was displeased with the way UC ran the LANL director search. Was the budget a payback for that error?
The man is a liar. I hope the voters at LANL consider well who they vote for in 2012. Obama is no friend of the workers in Northern New Mexico.
February 22, 2012 11:15 AM
Don't take it personal. He also killed Yucca Mountain, another brilliant idea!
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