Augustine's interim report to congress
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS29/20140326/101946/HHRG-113-AS29-Wstate-AugustineN-20140326.pdf
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS29/20140326/101946/HHRG-113-AS29-Wstate-AugustineN-20140326.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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"Neither Mr. Norman Augustine nor ADM (Ret) Richard Mies have had federal grants, sub- grants, contracts or sub-contracts with the federal government over the last three fiscal years.
David Graham"
BUT, on the previous page one can see that all may not be as it appears.
"Admiral Mies serves as ..., a member of the Boards of Governors of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a member of ..."
Being on the boards of LLNS and LANS may be a non-paid position these days, but it carried a hansom compensation a few years ago when published by UCOP. Sure, sure, some would say that he got his money from the LLC and not from the federal government, but that is splitting hairs, since the government is the sole funding for the labs.
Mies had a distinguished military career and should know better than to cut corners. The issue of reforming the NNSA labs is urgent and the hard working staff at those locations are running on empty. They deserve better.
March 29, 2014 at 3:20 PM
This statement is misleading at best and disingenuous at worst. It is true that the government is the sole source of funding for the labs, but it is not the sole source of funding for the LLNS/LANS LLCs and their boards. Those receive fusing from the parent companies, including the board members, and the salaries and bonuses for the senior managers.
March 29, 2014 at 7:32 PM
It could be entertaining to see some of them receive a fuse.