Under LLNS management, is the "dual career ladder" concept officially dead?
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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What is a dual career ladder?
Dual career ladder programs are most common in scientific, medical, information technology and engineering fields or fields that typically exhibit one or more of the following characteristics:
-Require substantial technical or professional training and expertise beyond the basic level generally recognized by national credentials or licensure.
-Are known for rapid innovation.
-Are in industries where retaining top employees is critical to business success. "
Thank you for the clarification. The answer to the organically questions is yes it is dead at LLNL and LANL. You could say it died with LLNS and LANS but the it probably started when we stoped testing. Both LLNL and LANL have been in steep decline in terms of science, innovation, and vibrancy. This has actually been documented by looking at the output of the labs and the quality of the new people brought into the labs. The labs are simply no longer do scientific work, information technology, or engineering and they no longer need elite expertise. The new mangers believe they no longer need to have any expertise in a specific thing, they are simply managers, they can manage a McDonalds, a gas station or a lab, the skills are the same. These skills are to check boxes, make sure there are no security or safety incidents. The less that is done, the less time people spend at work the more likely these things can be achieved. What do the labs do other than safety and security? You miss a milestone you have "maybe" a minor problem, have a safety incident you have a major problem. Management is the only way to get ahead and the managers know this and that is why they try not to interact with non-managers and simply look down on workers as dumb or idealistic who do not understand the way of the real world. Managers have actually told me that one can profit with the decline of the labs if you accept them for what they have become and try not to live in the past.
I completely agree with this statement. It is clear that LANS, and I’m just guessing LLNS, have significantly reduced the science, innovation and vibrancy of the labs. That can-do attitude has been replaced with repeated narratives about why something cannot be done. We are left with facilities that are fully operational, but please don’t try to do any work there.
The NNSA also lives in the past because it still relives the glory days in so far as how great SRS ran the production reactors. “We must find them a mission” many say. Pit production, to happen in a partially completed but now needs to be completely rebuilt MOX facility is so far outside the ability of SRS that it is clear that NNSA has lost control and needs to be replaced.