Whatever came of the pressure cookers that were still stored at LANL with organic kiddy litter in them? NNSA admitted to NMED that there were more of the drums packed with same waste as the explosion at WIPP that shut the place down for years and cost billions of dollars to clean up. What is LANL still covering up that is sitting on the mesa ticking and ticking and waiting?
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Didn't LANL claim that all the improperly packaged ones had been shipped out to Texas for temporary storage?
August 8, 2017 at 6:09 PM
Perhaps decisions are being made to make money. That is after the primary concern of LANS.
Capitalism won and LANS was selected by the government. Nothing new here.
August 8, 2017 at 8:40 PM
You seem to have a deep misunderstanding of what capitalism is and why it works. (1) You need a free market with with a number of computers (2) You need to be in constant competition with these competitors to create a market pressure. (3) There is a significant fraction of failure. LANS does not fulfill any of these conditions and falls into the class of crony capitalism or corruption. LANS at best had one competitor, LANS is not in constant competition, LANS has been almost completely immune to failure. I would also add the idea of having such a lab run by capitalistic principles is crazy in the first place since you have a very high probability it will fail. Capitalism only works statistically it never guarantees success of an individual company or group, so the idea of "capitalism" or "private" is always better is simply a probability.
To be capitalist, the PRIVATE OWNERS would have to invest their own capital in an attempt to profit. That's NOT what happened at LANL, not at all. The Government owns LANL. The Government pays a private contractor to run LANL. The private contractor has NOT invested ANY capital in LANL whatsoever.
LANL is a GOCO enterprise.
Reis never said that, he did say that the for-profit model has failed during his last
visit to LANL.