Following from the stacks and stacks of studies in the recent years, the quality of science has declined at LANL. Since LANL science is 100% led by UC, how is it that Bechtel keeps on getting blamed for this decline?
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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UC owns NIF, WIPP, and everything else that has occurred under LANSLLNS.
When they inked the contract to be majority control in the LLC, they accepted this 100% ownership of everything - good or otherwise.
You can't put more than a small part of the blame on Bechtel because Bechtel is not in charge. DUH.
You do know that the UC managers in charge of LANL are NOT the same people that previously ran LANL fairly well, don't you? Double DUH.
August 13, 2017 at 4:54 PM
Actually many of them are, at least the ones who haven't retired yet. Most existing LANL managers at the time joined the UC/Bechtel proposal writing team, not the Lockheed one.
A few current managers worked during the last 10 years of UC but not many. Don't try to BS, I knew every single upper-level manager personally during the last 10 years of UC and most have retired, were replaced, or moved to another job outside LANL. In addition, the number of upper-level management positions has grown, these new positions are almost all filled with people who were not upper-level managers before.
It is completely false to suggest that LANL is being run by the same crew that ran the Lab under UC.
The point is that the addition of Bechtel, a minor player, is NOT the principle cause of LANL's downfall. The addition of Bechtel is a factor, a minor factor, but it's not one of the main causes.
The steadily declining quality of the UC management is the one of the two main causes of LANL's downfall. Add to that a completely feckless and out of touch NNSA and you've got the recipe for the collapse that's now underway.
August 17, 2017 at 5:16 PM
False premise. Show your evidence that "UC is attempting to deflect blame for LANS failures to other partners."
False premise. Show your evidence that "UC is attempting to deflect blame for LANS failures to other partners."
Anyone seen Terry Wallace lately? hmmmmm.....