Chu on PF-4 safety
In what may have been a parting action to LANL, Chu replies to the DNFSB.
"I have concluded that PF-4 can continue to operate safely while longer-term structural modifications are completed."
This just might work if someone would cough up the money sometime soon to pay for those 'longer-term structural modifications'.
http://www.dnfsb.gov/sites/default/files/Board%20Activities/Letters/2013/ltr_2013327_21816.pdf
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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I'm sure the facilities in places like Iran, Pakistan and North Korea are in far better shape than these old, rusting radiation labs right here in America!