LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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would lead to a reduction of 550 NIF workers, the elimination of the inertial confinement fusion
program at the facility, and NIF would be “placed in a standby condition,” Moses said in his
letter.
And the downside would be what?
would lead to a reduction of 550 NIF workers, the elimination of the inertial confinement fusion
program at the facility, and NIF would be “placed in a standby condition,” Moses said in his
letter.
March 26, 2012 7:27 PM
About time. Finally this corrupt farce will end.
Actually, NIF has been cooking the books a lot longer than that. The only way they could do that was with NNSA/DOE buy-in. It's time for a major audit and dealing out consequences.
Time to pay your fair share EM! You have known there was and end to the cheap rates for years. Didn't you have that in your world class project plan?
BTW heard changes are coming on the EBA policy. Wonder if there is a limit to how long an EBA stays employed. If 49 EBAs are released a month there is no announcements needed.
"Cut my program = no results"
Parney is no match.
Ed would have understood the obvious error of the costly excess caution of resuming TCP-1 contributions at this point in 5 minutes.
Such a disgraceful and expensive project sold with copious amounts of lies and empty promises by top LLNL managers with absolutely no scruples.
Now it can be used to explore the physics.... which of course is the point of EXPERIMENTAL science.
April 7, 2012 10:45 PM
You neglect to mention that NIF was sold as a necessary means to study WEAPONS SCIENCE. Never happened, and never will. NIF is irrelevant to weapons science (i.e., secondary performance).
Anyone know where to find the original source of this article?
http://www.exchangemonitor.com/nuc_weapons.htm
But they want $1.5k per year for access