Triad has released the membership of the governing board and it is on their website. Can anyone recall ever having a lobbyist on the governing board of any other National Laboratory?
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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September 6, 2018 at 11:47 AM
Missed one key connection on this, Salazar was also employee of LANS. The perfect storm.
Lobbyists are in a different category, even though some retired politicians attempt to go down that path to get jobs. Abramoff and Manafort are in this category, as is Sudduth.
This shift could mark a turning point for LANL, which historically had at least some level of serious nuclear weapons experts on the board. It also may mark the emergence of LLNL as a much more serious nuclear weapons lab, and LANL becoming more of a plant site.
For contrast, look at LLNS board and the deep experience of nuclear weapons that is there. Anastasio, Wadsworth, Chilton, Mies and Koonin are in a position to help LLNL emerge as the physics lab for the complex, while LANL becomes a production location.