Skip to main content

Security issues, as usual

Image
By scooby
It is just the day in and day out safety and security issues at LANL that keep on coming.

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/02/f19/DOE-IG-0935.pdf

Comments

Anonymous said…
Insignificant. Unfortunate but not unexpected in the confusing, often imprecise world of classification. People trying but failing to follow complex practices is different than treason.

Fix it. Move on.
2/15/2015 7:46 PM
Anonymous said…
Wow! Would hate to see what 7:46 PM calls 'significant.' No reasonable person in the area would call repeated release of classified information 'not unexpected.' The investigation found that LANL had numerous such lapses. Therefore commonplace for LANL; however, hardly 'insignificant.'
2/15/2015 8:10 PM
Anonymous said…
Yeah, well, no one held accountable, the guy got to retire at full pension, no questions asked. Obviously LANS and NNSA think it is "insignificant."
2/15/2015 8:27 PM
Anonymous said…
Errors happen. Overall, Dan probably made fewer than most.
2/16/2015 8:48 AM
Anonymous said…
Errors happen. But when they do, they should be reported, not covered up by lying, by deleting files, and by bypassing the proper clean-up procedures. Its all in the report. And, management knew he was doing this and continued to let him hold the Classification Officer position.
2/16/2015 9:05 AM
Anonymous said…
Errors happen. But when they do, they should be reported, not covered up by lying, by deleting files, and by bypassing the proper clean-up procedures.

February 16, 2015 at 9:05 AM

Yeah, or by hiding them (i.e. hard disk) behind a copier in X-division in the old Administration Building.
2/17/2015 4:26 AM
Anonymous said…
Nobody "hid" a hard disk behind the copy machine. Get your facts straight.
2/18/2015 3:27 PM
Anonymous said…
Nobody "hid" a hard disk behind the copy machine. Get your facts straight.

February 18, 2015 at 3:27 PM

Ok, it was "placed" behind a copier for everyone to find it.
2/18/2015 5:02 PM
Anonymous said…
Ok, it was "placed" behind a copier for everyone to find it.

February 18, 2015 at 5:02 PM

Wrong twice. Not swayed by facts, huh?
2/18/2015 8:32 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Plutonium Shots on NIF.

By scooby
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...
155 comments
Read more

Trump is to gut the labs.

By scooby
The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will  have a huge negative effect on the lab. Crazy, juts crazy. He also wants to cut NEA and PBS, this may not seem like  a big deal but they get very little money and do great things.
124 comments
Read more

tcp1 looking good

By scooby
I just received my annual TCP-1 letter from LLNS and a summary of the LLNS Pension Plan. Looked in pretty good shape in 2013. About 35% overfunded (funding target attainment percentage = 134.92%). This was a decrease from 2012 where it was 51% overfunded (funding target attainment percentage = 151.59%). They did note that the 2012 change in the law on how liabilities are calculated using interest rates improved the plan's position. Without the change the funding target attainment percentages would have been 118% (2012) and 105% (2013). 2013 assets = $2,057,866,902 2013 liabilities = $1,525,162,784 vs 2012 assets = $1,844,924,947 2012 liabilities = $1,217,043,150 It was also noted that a slightly different calculation method ("fair market value") designed to show a clearer picture of the plan' status as December 31, 2013 had; Assets = $2,403,098,433 Liabilities = $2,068,984,256 Funding ratio = 116.15% Its a closed plan with 3,781 participants. Of that number, 3,151 wer...
105 comments
Read more