Honeywell, which manages Sandia National Laboratories, was fined $13 million for sharing military specs with China
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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Oh well, I guess as long as they voluntarily disclose it and pay a slap on the wrist fine, everybody is happy. I bet the execs are doing their ROI calculations right now. Hmmm, $13m fine vs. losing $250m in business with the PRC. I wonder which option the MBAs will pick.
Total BS. No nuclear weapon information was involved, nor any classified information. They broke some export control regulations.
5/10/2021 6:01 PM
How you'd you know?