http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20140113/113-HR3547-JSOM-D-F.pdf
Nif, W-78 and B83 are cut significantly.
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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How/Where in this report does it show NIF, W87, B83 taking significant cuts???
But I just picked out the color I wanted!
thanks, that what I thought. It should be a good year for work.
January 26, 2014 at 6:25 PM
Cuts like what?? Except for the recission for the B83 I see no cuts in this report. The proposed funding levels for weapons seem quite robust.
409 million last year compared to 329 million this year is a pretty big cut.
W-78
budget half what it was last year, that seems pretty big too.
B83
recession of 64 million.
There, fixed that for you.
And I agree. It is difficult to read the budget items and know what they actually mean, as well as their impact on LLNL. I suspect a lot of "shuffling" goes on. The budget may indicate a cut to Project X, but this cut may end up as funds for identical work in Project Y. This helps legislators save face, while preserving the status quo.