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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I don't disagree with your first point but you have to be realistic, LLNL will never
be upgraded to Cat 1 and even if it was it would not be able to keep up any better than LANL.
Once the matter of the number of pits is determine, then it will be time to proceed on deciding how to get there.
August 20, 2016 at 7:51 PM
DOE and NNSA haven't got what it takes to push through any kind of facility. And, even if by some miracle they did, they could not possibly select a competent operator to run it. DOE has long outlived its usefulness to the country, and should be disbanded. The NNSA should simply be dumped and the Feds working there fired. A return to the AEC is the only way to save the stockpile.