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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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The fault lies with DOE? That is a hoot! Ask anyone that has ever been a landlord and see if they operate in such an irresponsible manner. The DOE landlord owns the facility and the LANL occupant trashed it, rendering it useless to all occupants. DOE is acting as a responsible landlord and returning the facility to a fully useable condition for all occupants.
The facility is not "trashed." ONE DRUM leaked in one alcove. OK, that's done. Now who is causing the facility to stay closed for three years while endless study and paperwork is concluded to cover everyone's behinds?
"ONE DRUM leaked in one alcove."
It seems that you know more about the situation than what has been disclosed to the public. What you call a "leak" has variously been termed a "rupture" or an "explosion" by DOE. The drum was in "one alcove," but the radiation was spread throughout much of the facility according to DOE. This is no minor accident here, it is the largest screw-up in the history of the nuclear waste program.
Yeah, this one drum was transported from LANL across NM highways to Carlsbad. Would the TRUPACT-II (tightly packed 14 55-gallon drums) have contained the explosion? Of course, not a problem.