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Two more recent safety failures at LANL disclosed by DNFSB

What will Wallace and the UC team have to say about these?


http://www.lamonitor.com/content/lanl-struggles-fission-materials-issues-march

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Anonymous said…
Ah, yes. Just like a bad penny, the DNFSB shows up again and again, adding no value whatsoever.
4/13/2018 6:57 PM
Anonymous said…
Shooting the messenger has no impact on the message that the UC has failed in LANL leadership. Putting a geologist and his pack of followers in charge is only the latest failure. More radiation safety failures will happen under these conditions and will come to light. The question is will NNSA be able to install a new operations contractor before another major event happens.
4/15/2018 4:57 AM
Anonymous said…
April 15, 2018 at 4:57 AM

"will NNSA be able to install a new operations contractor before another major event happens"
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And this will help how? Still the same group of incompetent managers with a new leader.
4/15/2018 9:35 AM
Anonymous said…
Shooting the messenger has no impact on the message that the UC has failed in LANL leadership. Putting a geologist and his pack of followers in charge is only the latest failure. More radiation safety failures will happen under these conditions and will come to light. The question is will NNSA be able to install a new operations contractor before another major event happens.

April 15, 2018 at 4:57 AM

Bechtel is one to blame for this.
4/15/2018 10:18 AM
Anonymous said…
April 15, 2018 at 10:18 AM

That has been disproved many times. Keep on claiming it if makes you feel better, but it is not true.
4/17/2018 4:54 AM
Anonymous said…
Plenty of other safety and security incidents are waiting to come to light. Wallace and his team are keeping a tight lid on everything. No on wants to spoil the illusion that Terry's boyhood dream of becoming the best director ever at Los Alamos has come true.
4/17/2018 7:23 AM
Anonymous said…
Rumors are coming out about multiple crit and nuc safety failures that have happened in recent months and Wallace is indeed keeping a tight lid on them.
4/17/2018 1:01 PM
Anonymous said…
April 17, 2018 at 1:01 PM

Yes, several of the recent failures are being swept under the rug by Wallace and his circle.
4/18/2018 6:50 PM
Anonymous said…
Wallace believes that LANL knows better than everybody else therefore problems are not really problems. They are just the way LANL does it, "The right way". He truly believes that LANL is smarter than everybody else in nuclear operations in the world. He has said as much to the NNSA. I cannot believe that the NNSA agreed for him to be Lab director. Hilarious.
4/19/2018 3:21 PM
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