Others may want to add in as they wish, but there were usual suspects at the NNSA bidders day. UC, Bechtel,BWTX, UT and others showed up to the event. About all that was clear is that no one wanted to keep the present team.
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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The University of Texas is exploring a bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory after receiving the green light Thursday from its Board of Regents. The regents approved bid preparations that could cost up to $4.5 million in a Thursday meeting at the University
Really out to lunch on that happening. They lost Y-12 contract after the 82 year old nun made it all the way to the uranium facility and banged on the wall with a hammer and spray painted graffiti on the wall. Then they really ticked off NNSA by protesting the contract for way over a year. NNSA has a clear bias against these problem contractors and it showed at the Sandia contract when the BWXT team was the lowest ranked of all teams bidding.
Is Leidos bidding for LANL?
I doubt they want more bidders since it is going to be one of these two. One of the issue was that if the fee is to high you are going to get the wrong kind of groups bidding. NNSA has stated that want to return to a service oriented model rather than a profit motive model.