Internal announcements being made within Sandia is that Steve Younger is the new director. Also, rumor that Chris Deeney (former Sandia, now NSTec) is to be his second in command.
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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January 8, 2017 at 8:45 AM
Yes, it is a done deal.
Couldn't be, LANL is always managed by the same people they just shuffle them around. Same monkeys different trees.
"Couldn't be, LANL is always managed by the same people they just shuffle them around. Same monkeys different trees."
You have a short memory,4:55PM, or you haven't been around for very long. At the last contract change the senior management of LANL was handed over on a platter to its arch-rival LLNL. There is no reason to believe that DOE/NNSA will not punish LANL again by doing the same thing at the next contract change
January 9, 2017 at 3:57 PM
Not likely, the amount and type, and painfulness, of punishment is infinitely variable.
January 16, 2017 at 7:11 PM
Younger, as I recall, didn't tolerate much of anyone and anything with very poor listening skills. I agree, Sandia has no idea "what they are in for".