Suggestions on Saving Money at DOE Labs
Might be a good thread before summer budget difficulties arise.
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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Get rid of some scientists? Less money to be paid, less chance of safety and security incidents, less bitching and "I am so smart attitude". What would be the down side? The only thing might be some deliverables will not be meet but way this against all the savings and I think we would still come out ahead. The way the contract is written this is actually a series proposal.
The "Game" continues, we will never balance our budget, Never!
Get-R-Done , come on VSIP !
Putting DOE/NNSA and saving money in the same sentence is just not a good idea.
April 15, 2013 at 11:46 AM
Who are you talking to?? You are delusional.
But I agree it is a pipe dream. Another way to save money is to reduce the number of managers and their huge office staff. But another pipe dream
April 15, 2013 at 7:46 PM
Thank you fir the correction.
Nah! That wouldn't buy any votes.
April 16, 2013 at 5:46 PM
It might, if Congress were interested in saving money.
I think it's just someone with a brian who knows what it will take to get rid of 50% of the lab in the first week and resolve a problme that will benifit all. I will assure you 2 weeks pay for every year of service would get it done in a micro-second. I'd be first in line.
April 18, 2013 at 3:54 AM
Yeah, let's get rid of B-Division. That gives no "driver" for A-Division. Hell, let's get rid of the entire nuclear weapons program, Bechtel's goal.