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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1 Pit could be more feasible.
I think one scenario is SR falls through, LANL falls through and after 2030 if they still want pits they are going to have to make a separate facility from the ground up or Rocky Flats 2.
80 pits by 2030 always seemed like a joke but after hearing Mason speak I have real doubts about LANL.
Option 2,pay Elon Musk to make them, in exchange from dominion over Mars or something.
I think we are going to have WW3 long before SR gets to even one pit.
That's before personnel protection and radiation restrictions existed. Also handling, operational safety and security requirements and regulations. It isn't about salaries. Nobody is going to use a 1950's lathe to machine a Pu pit.
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Odds are they are not going be using a 2030 lathe to machine a plutonium pit either.