Purdue Confirms LANL Bid With Bechtel
https://www.exchangemonitor.com/purdue-confirms-lanl-bid-bechtel/
https://www.exchangemonitor.com/purdue-confirms-lanl-bid-bechtel/
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 real and perceived failures at Los Alamos prompted the contract change for them and Livermore. LANL had their contract changed a year before Livermore so those in California can get a view of the boulder coming down the hill before it hits them.
And face it, most of the drama and juicy gossip happens at LANL. There were many a time when I was looking at the old LANL blog and I would say "You've got to be kidding me." When it comes to office back stabbing, security failures and technical boondoggles, I tip my hat to the folks in New Mexico. Livermore sure isn't an innocent in these matters but LANL is the expert.
April 10, 2018 at 4:33 PM
To be fair to LANL, a lot of this has to do with it being in New Mexico. Sandia also has some crazy stuff as well, it is just the nature of the state.
April 10, 2018 at 8:45 PM
Agree!!!
Agreed, the natives (a large majority) have no business working at Nuclear Weapons Labs ...give New Mexico back to Mexico.
At least it checks the box for diversity.
April 12, 2018 at 2:16 PM
LANL needs a competent, scientifically respected, politically attuned, personally well-adjusted new Director. Unruly, uncontrolled egos (i.e., "Tomas" - why does everyone call him by his first name? It is kind of a creepy homophilia) are not qualified. Just be normal psychologically, stable in denmeanor, well-spoken, and calm in crises. No such people exist in the national labs' retinue? That is very sad and frightening.
April 18, 2018 at 8:06 PM
They do still exist (Bob Webster for example) but the director position is now a political position if you haven't noticed so you must be a sociopath as a pre-qualification.