LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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“DOE is committed to the safety of the workers, public and the environment. One very important aspect of that commitment is strong oversight of the construction of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site. The Department recently identified that the quality assurance records needed to demonstrate the pedigree of the safety significant structural steel used in WTP facilities were not adequate. The Department directed Bechtel National Inc. to gather the necessary documentation and provide it to the Department. When received, DOE will determine whether the documentation meets applicable quality assurance standards for the steel being used in the WTP facilities. The Department takes its oversight and mission execution responsibility seriously, and will continue to provide strong, safety-focused oversight of the WTP project.”
http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/feds-demand-documents-contractor-safety-hanford-steel
Hanford... who is in charge of that? Oh Bechtel, what could go wrong with that. Best put them in complete control of Los Alamos.
https://www.srs.gov/general/news/factsheets/srr_dwpf.pdf
The game is to come up with reason after reason why it should not finish. Change the requirements or make a ridiculous requirement like "able to process any possible thing in the tanks that we don't know what is in them" (DOE does not even have a consensus on what is in the tanks and has not sufficiently sampled in the past 20 years), DOE rejects the technology provided by the DOE to Bechtel during the BNFL transition in the early 2000s (pulse jets), DOE stores the worst constituents in the worst tanks and stores LLW water in the best tanks, etc. It will never finish until the citizens freak out due to contamination in mass quantities hitting the river. When it can get done in South Carolina but not Washington and it is the same tech, one must examine the other variables like politics.