Does anyone have inside information on how the search for a new director is going? Is there a short list yet? Who is on it?
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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If a "gigantic ego"or "lack of technical knowledge" were disqualifiers, how many of the LLNS senior management team would need to step down pronto? Being a time tested amoral drone trumps technical skills anyway.
Or just belief?
January 28, 2014 at 4:58 PM
Rees! Are you kidding me! He was run out of LANL for tangling with the Burn's and TSMs.
Reese? Uh um things did not go well at LANL, really really not well. It came to a very abrupt end. I doubt that he will even be considered for such a position or any other position like this again.
Younger, Romig maybe. Younger seems to be getting up there and may not be interested in these kinds of jobs but who knows.
January 28, 2014 at 5:48 PM"
Ya he as run out, I mean really run out. Does he even have a job anymore?
And what's the current age of the lab as all the young people leave? 55? 60? 65?
Think about it! Why would the Board of Governors brings someone from another state, to make him an Acting Director while we have so many AD on site who could do the interim job.?
I bet BK will be our Director in three months or sooner.
I bet BK will be our Director in three months or sooner.
January 31, 2014 at 8:56 PM
Um, how about bringing someone in who is imminently qualified and a nationally known scientific expert and qualified manager, after a national search headed by a sterling committee? What's wrong about doing it right?
Know someone like that...who wants the job. Doubtful.
January 31, 2014 at 9:50 PM
You had it going there for a time, but then lost it with the "headed by a sterling committee" comment. Taking nothing at all away from some of the historical accomplishments of those serving on the selection committee, the recent past has shown them to have different priorities. This group was composed to select a director that will preserve the status quo, not one that will challenge it.
http://llnlthetruestory.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-waste.html
" Timothy 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. "
February 2, 2014 at 12:28 PM
So every one of the members of the selection committee is suspect by your reckoning? How convenient. No need for any actual thought or analysis. I'm sure the members appreciate being put in your nice tidy little box. Unsupported derogatory opinions aren't worth much.
Perhaps the former congresswoman before Garamendi.
Maybe nobel laureate scientist, Dr. Albert Gore?
What women are being considered you think?
February 6, 2014 at 11:35 PM
You think these search committee members are somehow beholden to LLNL or LLNS? Read the names again. Care to specify which ones and your evidence for that?
February 7, 2014 at 9:25 PM
You are the naive one. These aren't LLNS employees. Name one member of the committee whose career depends in any way on LLNS. Many if not most of them are emeritus, their stellar careers near the end. They had absolutely no need to accept an appointment to the committee except to do what they individually think is right for LLNL, and the country. Your cynicism is making you sound just stupid.