At LLNL, will DTED completely swallow up NSED?
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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As important as it is, diversity efforts aren't meant to leapfrog a BS or a non-degreed into a PhD arena, and just hope for the best. Your opinions of exceptions don't nullify the rule.
There is career success and there is scientific and engineering success. Sometimes career success comes at the expense of scientific and engineering success, and there are way too many to name.
There are reasonable diversity efforts and there are underutilization driven turbocharged diversity efforts with long lasting negative programmatic results. This gives broader diversity efforts an undeserved bad name.
Spoken as a under-recognized Ph.D. staff member with a grudge, but also probably correct.
7/09/2019 9:39 PM"
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Which one would that be since every single Director has a doctorate. You seem a bit confused. Look having a Phd is not a required for doing great science or engineering can be seen be easily seen by number of Nobel prizes given to be people without Phds include some within the last 30 years. However you are wrong about the LANL Directors.
Thomas Mason (November 2018-present)
Terry C. Wallace, Jr. (2018)
Charles McMillan (2011–2017)
Michael R. Anastasio (2006–2011)
Robert Kuckuck (2005–2006)
G. Peter Nanos (2003–2005)
John C. Browne (1997–2003)
Siegfried S. Hecker (1985–1997)
Donald M. Kerr (1979–1985)
Harold M. Agnew (1970–1979)
Norris Bradbury (1945–1970)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1943–1945)
7/14/2019 5:52 PM"
Well that sure counters the point.
Anyone that couldn't do so on any other grounds, as if you didn't know.