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ABQ Journal update on CMRR funding
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A budget bill approved by the Senate on Saturday and headed to President Barack Obama’s desk contains no money for a multi-billion plutonium project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, prompting cheers from nuclear weapons activists.
But the yearlong congressional debate over the future of the Chemistry Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility isn’t over.
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/09/25/news/no-funds-for-lanl-project-in-senate-bill.html
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Frankly, I doubt the CMRR will ever be built. Delaying it for 5 years might as well have been delaying it for 55 years. The political will to come up with the $6 billion to $10 billion in funding to complete the CMRR is nonexistent. NNSA will be forced to "make do" with existing -- and at LANL, 1950s style ancient! -- facilities.
Budget problems with CMRR and nuclear weapons funding have prompted LANS to lay off about 12% of the workforce during FY012 and may soon require LANS to lay off even more during FY2013 to mitigate LANL's bleak budget situation. And if LANL is forced to go over the "fiscal cliff" on January 1st, the layoffs required will kill-off much of the lab. LANL could soon be seeing a mega-RIF of perhaps 20% of the remaining workforce executed in short order.
September 25, 2012 7:17 PM"
You need to get a clue, you clearly do not understand how congress does its budgets.
Are you a manager or what?
September 27, 2012 6:45 PM
Exactly, the (Republican controlled) House voted this CR out two weeks ago. No one is going home for election under the threat of a government shutdown.
LANL will be an example of how a not to run a lab. We may still have an extremely large County Building and a Smiths though........
This place has really turned rotten under the for-profit LLCs and Bechtel.
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/funds-may-come-back-lab
October 1, 2012 6:40 PM
The sun "may" rise in the west tomorrow.
This place has really turned rotten under the for-profit LLCs and Bechtel.
September 30, 2012 7:08 PM
Don't forget about Knapp's Porsche Cayenne. You know, the one blazing back-and-forth from the Albuquerque Airport on Friday's and Sunday's so he can "go some" in California every weekend.