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What is the future of NIF in light of its failure to make progress toward achieving ignition?
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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This will end up hurting what little credibility is left for LLNL. They've run out of stuff to "spin" on the subject of NIF.
As Sam Spade stated in the Maltese Falcon - 'It's the stuff dreams are made of.'
There will never again be a buyout that gives you retirement credits. Those days are dead and gone. The layoff policy was re-written to make it easier and cheaper to boot us out the door. The best you can hope for is 1 week of service for 1 year of employment. No sweetener for your retirement which would be on ongoing cost. It's still better than the outside world. That golden handshake - you are 20 years late to that party.
DOE/NNSA/LLNS - They ain't here for your health.
June 9, 2012 8:30 PM
Only to those who labor under the misconception that the public gives a shit about the US nuclear weapons community. Most don't even know it exists. If you don't have any relatives that live in states who have no NWC presence, or if you have no relatives or friends who have no reason to know about the NWC, you are living in a fishbowl and are sorely out of touch with mainstream US society. Nobody, absolutely nobody, gives a crap about you and your problems. Congress is the least of your problems.
Has been what?? Spent? Wasted? Invested? Lost? Try completing a sentence if you want an answer to your question.
June 10, 2012 9:12 PM
I can appreciate your frustration. This poor guy who can't complete a sentence must be an engineer or physicist from Livermore (LLNL). Not only can he not complete a sentence but can't "complete" or "finish" anything (i.e. X-ray laser, NIF, Laser Isotope Separation (LIS), Brilliant Pebbles, MFTF, etc.). I hate to be his wife.
You're his wife???
June 11, 2012 8:01 AM
Yeah, I am son, unfortunately, I don't know who your daddy is.