Charlie's wife is a nurse in Occupational Medicine. The position was a new position created as part of the hiring of McMillan as Lab Director; it was negotiated with Norm Pattiz and Glen Mara when he had his UCOP VP job. Dr. Scherer raised concerns but they were over ridden by AD Brandt. The rest is history. Unexcused absences, poor performance, and cookie baking in the Occ Med kitchen.
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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Give Charlie a break.
Lab wives that don't work and have to live in Los Alamos = alcoholics.
Give Charlie a break.
March 2, 2016 at 9:05 PM
So in addition to having a paid position at LANL and not working, are you now adding in that she was known to be drunk while on duty?