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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Part of the problem today (my observation) is that millennials are spoiled, will not cut back spending, and must buy that new $35K+ vehicle and 2500+ sq ft home. Why brew your own coffee and pack a lunch when you can spend $15/day at Starbucks and $15/day for lunch and treats. Enough to cover the PG&E, water and cable/internet/phone bill.
Incidentally, you don't keep your clearance when you leave government for the private sector. So I think the title of this post is very misleading.
October 3, 2016 at 10:59 PM
Unless you work in the local oversight office for DOE, you are not a government employee. If you work at the Laboratory, you are a private sector contractor employed by LLNS. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Someone needs a refresher course in government ownership of companies, as in the Soviet era Eastern Bloc.
Of course, now that the OMB has been hacked by foreign actors (Chinese ?) all our clearance and family contact info might be put up for sale on the black web.
Pleasant thought !
October 4, 2016 at 9:37 PM
How do you know that's not already happened? The Federal Agencies (NNSA, OPM, etc.) are strangely quiet about how many of these employees have already had their identities compromised or screwed up by the information that was stolen.
October 5, 2016 at 11:21 AM
Not so. All potentially affected current and former employees have been contacted and offered free perpetual identity theft protection through a private firm hired by the government. I gratefully accepted and have been happy with the monthly updates.