LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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12/27/2019 11:11 AM"
Things that have gotten demonstrably better with modern manufacturing technology:
V-8 Engines
Mobile Phones
Refrigerators
Submarines
Stealth fighters
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Pits? How would you know? They can't be tested!
This is from the JASON report (https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/pit.pdf):
As a result of the Los Alamos/Livermore efforts, JASON concludes that there is no evidence from the UGT analyses for plutonium aging mechanisms affecting primary perfor- mance on timescales of a century or less in ways that would be detrimental to the enduring stockpile.
The need for new pits is largely a fabrication of LANL for the purpose of funding a make-work pit facility. This debate has been going on for years with LANL winning the argument in the face of contradictory scientific evidence.