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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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