Jason Report on Chinese influence in US science
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/12/china-has-increasing-sway-us-science-report/161938/
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/12/china-has-increasing-sway-us-science-report/161938/
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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I agree but the problem is where are you going to get talented PhDs in science and engineering? If you look at any graduate program in these fields there are few American and the ones that are there are not exactly the top of the class. At one point you could attract some of the best people to LLN/LANL/Sandia. No one believes this is true now.
True, but are the NNSA labs doing national security research? I could argue that private labs or private companies are doing cutting edge national security work but NNSA labs...not so much.
"Private labs" and "private companies" are not doing TS (NSI or RD) research on nuclear security or nuclear weapons.