I believe science is still alive at LANL but running under the radar. I do agree since the end of nuclear testing there has been a migration away from an absolute need for a deterrent. I also believe this is a long term mistake. Webster as director would be interesting. He seems genuine enough. I can't speak for his management ability but sometimes I find that particular ability to be overrated. Know he mission, support the mission. That should be the basis for truth telling.
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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He is McMillan's latest suck-up, but is there anything else qualifying about him?