Triad National Security, LLC has earned an overall “Very Good” rating and an overall 83.7 percent of its award fee for its Managing & Operating contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory for FY2021. The total amount awarded is $46.7 million out of almost $50 million that was available. The National Nuclear Security Administration announced the performance results in a three-page summary that can be viewed here: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/FY21%20Triad%20PES%20Final.pdf.
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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2/12/2022 9:45 AM
Some people have pointed this out.
https://losalamosreporter.com/2022/02/10/nnsa-whitewashes-lanl-performance-hides-information-from-taxpayers/
Concerning the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NNSA gave the contractor Triad National Security, LLC an overall rating of “Very Good.” As an example, for Goal-1: Mission Execution: Nuclear Weapons, NNSA noted that that Triad “[s]ucessfully made advances in pit production processes…” Yet under “Issues” NNSA declares that Triad, “Struggled with some production activities… Realized setbacks in development and product realization… [and] Experienced several programmatic challenges in executing the plutonium mission.”
One thing is clear Pit Production is priority at LANL now and for the foreseeable future.