Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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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.