Thoughts on O&B?
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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There are functional areas that are part of O&B that do excellent work, and shouldn't be tarnished by other parts of it. I believe Mark Martinez (in his new role as PAD) is attempting to determine what exactly this organization under him does, and what aspects of it need to be "refined". He has a decent skill set when it comes to sorting wheat from chaff, so let's give him an opportunity to do what he does best.
No question the "B" or "O&B" needs some SERIOUS work. In the smaller departments under Mike, there are some seriously flawed and top-heavy management areas that need major reorganization. (See the "Morale Deflater" entry here for more input on this http://llnlthetruestory.blogspot.com/2014/04/morale-deflater.html)
But even in "B", there are some critical services for the overall Lab being provided, so let's not toss the baby out with the "B"athwater.