Worth a topic of discussion?
https://www.llnl.gov/news/carolyn-zerkle-named-lawrence-livermores-deputy-director
https://www.llnl.gov/news/carolyn-zerkle-named-lawrence-livermores-deputy-director
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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Just saw this.
Carolyn Zerkle is a rather infamous character on the blog site and was subject of endless comments over the years. There are so many good stories about her. In any case she seemed to be a LANS person through and through and through. There seemed to only be bad stories about her on the blog. Since the blog might be filter for only certain views, I am sure there must be plenty of people who will point out good things.
The unspoken question really is, what best juices the LLNS annual award fee, those with the talent to best meet our NNSA milestones, or those that are best at massaging these milestones to the NNSA Field Office for maximum profit? This is where we are. Sorry.