Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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I would agree with you if the NNSA HQ was planning to shut down LANL, or remove all hazardous and potentially catastrophic activities away from LANL, but as you may know in 2021, the NNSA approved the production of 30 Plutonium pits per year at LANL, among many other dangerous activities that occur or will occur at LANL.
This LANL Field Office Manager didn't transfer to another NNSA assignment , instead, she "voluntarily" elected to retire from NNSA employment entirely at the age of ~50. There were numerous safety mishaps under the leadership of Director McMillan and LANS management. NNSA Field Office Managers are responsible for objective contractor oversight and to evaluate the operations of the contractor. NNSA Field Office Managers are not by one way or another, permitted to enable more safety or performance deficiencies of the contractor. This must be the standard. NNSA Field Office Managers must be held directly accountable, otherwise employees that work at LANL, taxpayers, and downwinders, may be impacted for a failure to address root clauses of the numerous deficiencies at LANL. You can't wave a NNSA Field Office Manager through (if NNSA HQ did) and expect the same problems at LANL will not resurface.
FYI July 27, 2021:
"Huntington Ingalls Industries Announces Kimberly Lebak as New President and General Manager of N3B Joint Venture...As president and general manager of N3B, Lebak is responsible for managing the 10-year, $1.4 billion Los Alamos legacy cleanup contract for the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management’s Los Alamos Field Office."
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/27/2269654/14858/en/Photo-Release-Huntington-Ingalls-Industries-Announces-Kimberly-Lebak-as-New-President-and-General-Manager-of-N3B-Joint-Venture.html
12/06/2021 4:53 PM
That was a rather long winded way to say that yes it is about a four-year old axe to grind. Got it.
"2014 nuclear accident in N.M. ranks among costliest in U.S. history
The direct cost of the cleanup is now $640 million, based on a contract modification made last month with Nuclear Waste Partnership that increased the cost from $1.3 billion to nearly $2 billion."
https://www.thedailyworld.com/nation-world/2014-nuclear-accident-in-n-m-ranks-among-costliest-in-u-s-history/
The irony of revolving doors.