Geologist Terry Wallace and the New Mexico jobs program:
https://www.abqjournal.com/1176508/los-alamos-thankful-for-its-ability-to-serve.html
https://www.abqjournal.com/1176508/los-alamos-thankful-for-its-ability-to-serve.html
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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This is bid odd. LANL should hire the best most qualified candidates for the job not just people from New Mexico or companies from New Mexico.
Unfortunately New Mexico has a lot of problems that make difficult to contribute to Los Alamos. I appreciate Terry's efforts but it is simply not a realistic expectation that LANL will hire mostly people from New Mexico or that that resources of New Mexico are necessary for LANL to do well.
New Mexico has a horrible eduction systems typically ranking 49-50th
New Mexico ranks near the bottom in yet another national report on educational achievement.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/education/new-mexico-ranked-th-in-national-education-report/article_f44b5730-26d1-544a-bab9-b375a984f6ae.html
Education Week’s Quality Counts released its annual state report card Thursday, and New Mexico earned a D. The state ranked 49th in the nation, ahead of Nevada and Mississippi. The report includes the District of Columbia.
Not to mention that New Mexico ranks horribly in economics, high skill labor, health, is considered the worse state to raise a family and so on. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/education/stuck-at-the-bottom-why-new-mexico-fails-to-thrive/article_78cc5744-5f73-576b-ad7f-60f704d0fbdc.html
What is more stunning is that over the last 30 years New Mexico is gotten worse not better in terms of rankings in most areas.
A better question would be how many WR pits has the NNSA ordered LANL to build over the past 12 months? The fundamental problem is that NNSA COUNTINUES TO UNDERFUND what is required. Furthermore, the management structure is inferior and lacks the discipline and resources and infrastructure to build WR.