Will the NNSA root out Bechtel from the next LLNL contract winner as they did with TRIAD? If so, why?
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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Yes they out. After Bechtel left LANL, suddenly a lot of money came into the systems, building got built, stuff got fixed, paperwork got done. Bechtel had always said that it would improve business and infrastructure and it was a disaster on both counts. LLNL is another story but I think after LANL, NNSA is just going to move completely away from Bechtel. Also with the rise of Russia and China as nuclear threats NNSA wants to start acting seriously and will not take a chance with Bechtel ever again.
To summarize Bechtel is out.
Having known several Bechtelians first hand, I can honestly say I have never known a more sleazy, corrupt, genuinely stupid group in my life. Their projects suck billions out of public pockets and more often than not accomplish nothing. They ARE well connected. It shames me to admit their long standing association with Republican politicians and operatives in “The Grove” is part of that global network. Shame on each and every one of them.
4/22/2022 4:35 PM
Bechtel may have given up on LLNL. They totally blew LANL and that one was where the the big bucks where going with the pit facility. Bechtel really wanted that pit money by bring in a bunch of their contractors. LLNL really will not bring in all that much.