Tuesday, September 25, 2012
No Funds for LANL Project in Senate Bill
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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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I am not surprised, this 6 Million dollar project is doomed. Look for Y 12 to get the $$$$.
Wow , no CMRR funding, and a 9% cut in overall funding, can you imagine what Los Alamos will look like in a year from now. Hey we knew this day was coming, we are finally completely out of money!
This is a Continuing Resolution, not a budget bill! Doesn't anyone know the difference? This means absolutely nothing about CMRR's ongoing funding level. Try to get a clue!
The person who needs to get a clue is 7:17 PM. Whether a CR or an budget bill, the CMRR is officially dead. It's over. No more funding will be supplied for this project. LANS has already laid off or moved all the people who were involved with this project.
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.
Hey 7:17 you might take a look at yourself in a mirror. Your not wearing any clothes. 8:37 is absolutely correct. LANL is about to get their asses handed to them on a sliver platter.....again, the other half.
"This is a Continuing Resolution, not a budget bill! Doesn't anyone know the difference? This means absolutely nothing about CMRR's ongoing funding level. Try to get a clue!
September 25, 2012 7:17 PM"
You need to get a clue, you clearly do not understand how congress does its budgets.
What part of NO CMRR dont you get 7:17. Listen closely...NO MONEY IN BUDGET FOR CMRR. CR is only to keep the government running.
Are you a manager or what?
Chu put funding for CMRR on "hold" for 5 years months ago. There is nothing new here. Why all the excitement? Did anyone expect a bipartisan continuing resolution (not a budget bill), to change anything? This is a non-story.
This information was known for quite a while already. Probably just filler content for a newspaper.
This information was known for quite a while already.
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.
So what! On Jan. 2013, the Lab will experience a jolt that was never thought possible. Talk about a nuclear episode, just wait till the number of FTE: are in the THOUSANDS. If you are still here and hopping to keep your job, good luck! The housing market is at a standstill, and there will be no good paying jobs in New Mexico, after the sequester.
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........
Too funny 8:57, you forgot to mention all of the REAL smart people that will be hangin out at the Pond....
Shouldn't be too long now until we see former LANL research scientists rummaging through the trash bins outside of Smith's Grocery. Parked nearby, of course, will be the $100,000+ Porche Panamera's owned by the members of LANS' upper management team.
This place has really turned rotten under the for-profit LLCs and Bechtel.
Funds may come back to lab for CMRR:
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/funds-may-come-back-lab
Funds may come back to lab for CMRR:
October 1, 2012 6:40 PM
The sun "may" rise in the west tomorrow.
Porche Panamera's owned by the members of LANS' upper management team.
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.
The Government could remove funding from an ongoing fiction (NIF) and put it toward necessary infrastructure, (CMRR). Unfortunately, that idea makes too much sense.
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