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...
Comments
This is a solely university owned LLC - "Argonne is operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC together with team member Jacobs Engineering Group Inc."
It satisfies the DOE RFP requirement that the Lab be operated as a "separate" business entity by the contractor. It provides the university with liability protection, allows for "teaming" with industrial partners for specific activities and reasonable compensation for their efforts, but keeps them from dominating the relationship.
It also very similar to how Lockheed Martin runs Sandia National Lab through an LLC (Sandia Corporation) solely owned by LM.
This issue will quickly be forgotten. Carry-on and remember to give 110%. Your manager's annual 20% bonus depends on your hard work.