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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Ah, culture, fine please define what you mean. So far "culture" has been used as an excuse to deflect management failures. Why did Nanos fail? culture, why did WIPP fail, culture, why did LANS fail, culture, why did Clinton lose, culture. But what exactly do they mean by culture, is it a culture of bad management, a culture of NNSA incompetence, is it a New Mexico culture, is it a culture of men, a culture of women, a culture of people from Colorado, just what is this so called culture thing they keep talking about?
Culture seems to lead back to one thing, it is the fault of the scientists who must have a culture of arrogance, end of story. They are to blame for all the problems, so round them up, shame them, punish them and do away with them. That always seems to be what they really mean by culture as scientists are the easiest targets and they will not fight back. Make sure you pick the right scapegoat.
I think any entity that comes in to "change the culture" will fail because they have no idea what they mean by culture, who has the culture, and if culture is even the problem. It is like coming in to fix the problems at LANL which are SNARFS, I don't know what a snarf is, what it does, why it does it, but someone needs to be blamed and it cannot be the NNSA,DOE, Bechtel, UC, managers so it must be SNARFS.
Somehow, I don't think this is what the NNSA folks have in mind when they complain about "culture". Instead, they use the word to designate something vaguely bad about those scientists, something that needs to be "beaten into submission". This is from an actual testimony to Congress: "I believe there is something about the Los Alamos culture that we have not yet beaten into submission." (https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200410/backpage.cfm)
Since 14 years later they still are talking "culture", the NNSA viewpoint hasn't really changed, despite the manifest failure of LANS, LLC, which they imposed on LANL precisely to "beat the culture into submission". Lessons not learned.
To fit an other RFP requirement- non profit, then UT et al., has it. Soon, right Tami?
Hmm, this could be the one with U of New Mexico, New Mexico State, ect. My guess is Terry Wallace is the person heading this team. The pitch is free jobs for people in New Mexico no qualifications needed, you may glow but you will be employed.
May 25, 2018 at 5:25 AM
Sorry, not going to believe anyone who cannot spell "fourth."
Good point, the other day someone said the sky is bluu, and I am not going to believe him either.