Senator Claire McCaskill letter to NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz raises "extensive safety violations and chronic problems" at LANL, and states that numerous NNSA contractors "have not been held accountable in a meaningful way" for "serious injuries, such as electric shocks, burning by acid or fire, and the inhalation of radioactive particles"
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/08/03/21046/senator-cites-cpi-articles-calling-tougher-safety-practices-nuclear-weapons
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912784-2017-08-03-CMC-Ltr-to-NNSA-Re-Safety-Violations.html
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/08/03/21046/senator-cites-cpi-articles-calling-tougher-safety-practices-nuclear-weapons
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912784-2017-08-03-CMC-Ltr-to-NNSA-Re-Safety-Violations.html
Comments
In what way is the profound failure that is LANS diminished by when the Senator might have learned of its performance record? Nice try.
All of the events that McCaskill correctly called out happened years ago. Very damaging to her credibility is the fact that she has known about many of these events and the lack of an appropriate NNSA response since 2012. How do we know? She was a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and she attended the 2012 hearing on NNSA management of the National Laboratories.
Many of these problems occurred during the Obama administration and the Obama administration did nothing. She wrote no letters then. So why did she start writing letters to Perry and Klotz just this year?
She addresses her feelings that DOE should look for options other than M&O contracts to run DOE facilities. She didn't make a compelling argument AT ALL.
Seems like you knew these previous letters had nothing to do with the current situation, so why did you try to mislead?