This is old news, but it's still funny:
"Sandia National Laboratories says it's worthless"
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2002/05/20/story3.html?page=all
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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http://llnlthetruestory.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-waste.html
" Tim Shepodd (8223) liked the moniker and agreed to call it the “chili cookoff.” But there was no chili involved, and the only “cooking” had to do with the kind of chemicals not usually found on Sandia grounds. "
Ironically, out of all the 3 weapons labs, Sandia is the only one that has never generate a Nobel Prize (even LLNL and LANL each have 1 Nobel Prize).
When it was submitted for an award competition and didn't win anything, everyone was rolling on the floor laughing at the manager of that experiment!
A lot of staff employees in the department where the "chili cook-off" was carried out were always making fun of that experiment (and noted that they were stepped on because of Shepodd's decision to push his program - a clear conflict of interest!).