Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Did you intentionally use the double negative, thereby apparently killing your own point? Proofread!!
So do the LANL managers and Bechtel get more money?
"DOE Office of Enforcement issued a Notice of Intent to Investigate recent hazardous electrical energy events and potential deficiencies in implementing hazardous energy assessment and control requirements at the Los Alamos National Laboratory."
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/Enforcement%20Notice%20of%20Intent%20to%20Investigate%2C%20Los%20Alamos%20National%20Security.pdf
5-8-15: "LANL electrical systems were being probed before burning accident"
http://www.abqjournal.com/581839/news/lanl-electrical-systems-were-being-probed-before-burning-accident.html
LANL had a long history of numerous electrical near-miss accidents before the most recent one. NNSA did nothing serious about this, and then a near fatal one happened. The lingering issue is will there now be real consequences to LANL.
Yes like a contract extension and huge bonus. NNSA has to no choice but to reward LANS and that is how it is going to be.
Is LANS getting the extra year?
"Review of the management processes applicable to this work revealed procedures and policies are in place to govern electrical maintenance work. However, it has been demonstrated by this and other events at LANL in recent history that these procedures and policies are often applied at the minimum level possible to execute work, or in some cases not used at all."
LANS lost a year off of the current LANL contract for its contribution to the WIPP incident and shutdown. How in any way that is defendable to Congress can NNSA give LANS a contract extension the next year after a damming statement like the one above. Where's POGO and the other watchdogs that so criticized UC's management of LANL.
JAIT Report: "This report neither determines nor implies liability."
"And the band played on"