Considering the IG report of earlier this week about LAFO, there probably will be a delay in delivery of NNSAs annual evaluation letter to the lab. Be ready for news just before the holiday break.
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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http://nnsa.energy.gov/blog/livermore-field-office-sets-core-values-part-continuous-improvement-process (thanks for the previous post)
If we would have a site office with core values , this all would not have happened.
The question is what happens if LANS gets less than 80%. The wording says it cannot get an extension. Of course NNSA could just give LANS an extension anyway but it will look bad. They could try and cook the books to get above 80% but these seems unlikely given all the bad things that have happened this year.
Another possibility is that LANS gets below 80% but still gets the extension however Charlie and numerous high level managers step down. This way NNSA can give the extension but also look like it took some corrective actions.
There is a MOU between the DOE Office of Enforcement and the NNSA which adds a set of requirements and approvals from the NNSA that do not exist for Office of Enforcement actions and investigations at non-NNSA facilities.
On 4-27-15, the Office of Enforcement sent a “Notice of Intent to Investigate” "the facts and circumstances associated with potential deficiencies in Los Alamos National Security (LANS) implementation of the Department of Energy's (DOE) 10 C.F.R. Part 851 hazardous energy assessment and control requirements and recent hazardous electrical energy events at Los Alamos National Laboratory".
One week later on 5-3-15, there was a serious near fatal Arc-Flash accident and operations shutdown at LANL.
From the point of discovery and concern of LANS hazardous energy deficiencies by the Office of Enforcement, how many weeks or months of effort were required to step through all of the communications and permission with NNSA HQ/LAFO just to present the 4-27-15 “Notice of Intent to Investigate” LANS letter?