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 whole point is that overall costs did not get reduced but increased. Sounds like standard Bechtel practice.
The story is what it is no matter how you want to spin it and I strongly encourage everyone to read. Bechtel is as sleazy as it gets.
RADIOACTIVE
Feds Gave Nuclear Weapons Contractor ‘Cost Savings’ Bonuses After Going Over Budget
Millions of dollars in promised savings at two nuclear weapons plants in Texas and Tennessee haven’t appeared, and the government is letting a powerful contractor off the hook.
The savings that CNS initially promised were supposed to come from cutting what the corporations and their federal overseers claimed were excess jobs and employee benefits at the Texas and Tennessee sites. But key lawmakers and congressional staff in Washington have said this aim was misguided from the outset, coming as it did just as the Department of Energy was launching, at the Obama administration’s direction, a three-decade-long trillion-dollar weapons modernization program, which would seemingly require many new personnel.
This is a good one.
"Many workers at the plants have chafed under the new management approach and complained about its consequences, noting in a confidential staff survey that they feel profit has been prioritized over safety. " This would also correlate with the increase of issues at LANL and hence the loss of the contract.
"The whole point is that overall costs did not get reduced but increased."
No kidding....
Indeed the constant "I hate UC" "I hate scientists" "I hate LANL" , and "I am special" gets old. You can point out the facts over and over again and they are just ignored or the data is cherry picked. Some people just have an agenda that they will never let go, all you have to to do is read some anti LANL and anti UC screeds in the local Santa Fe papers to get an idea of who these people are.
I have real the story and it is very damming of Bechtel, the title is certainly not misleading.
February 11, 2018 at 7:43 AM
Always has been.
February 12, 2018 at 5:58 PM
That is correct and why people like you and I never read it or post on it.
February 13, 2018 at 5:55 PM
Keep posting on that blog that you never read. :)