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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True. Too often under LLNS, “best candidate” and superior SKA’s to best achieve mission objectives are not even a close 2nd priority. Unquestioning allegiance is priority 1. At LLNL, we’ve had people just out right “appointed” at the Division level. Many other openings are either wired for one pre-selected individual, or the individual is groomed for the position well before it is posted. So much for an “open process”. There are exceptions for higher profile positions. For example, Director Parney and Engineering AD Patterson were not pre-selected from within. These two professionals in my opinion, displayed some backbone and were resistant to internal politics and status quo assimilation. Interestingly, both Parney and Patterson left under LLNS management, not to retire, but to continue their careers elsewhere. We could use more people like them.