Reports: Criminal Charges Against Boeing Recommended To DOJ After Deadly Crashes
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/reports-criminal-charges-against-boeing-194601357.html
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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DOE has a history of ignoring acts whistleblower retaliation by its lab contractors against their employees. The retaliation motive being, lab LLC award fee amounts can be negatively impacted by project delays, attention directed to subpar safety, poor engineering controls, etc. You might want to look into it if you’re interested.
In the Boeing situation, leadership are alleged to have willfully ignored whistleblower safety concerns, willfully deceived investigators, and sanctioned employee retaliation in order to keep said safety concerns silenced. This kind of safety culture is alleged to be related to the deaths of Boeing passengers.
Are you referring to LLNL as a whole, or a particular Directorate or Department within LLNL?
Sometimes, people “look the other way” because in doing so, it prevents having to deal with personal ownership of the situation, however small or large that ownership might be. This is a well established lab culture that exists to this day.
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6/27/2024 3:58 AM
The problem is Boeing does something, it builds airplanes. If the planes do not work they have a problem. Other companies build planes and can take Boeings business.
LLNL and LANL have no product that can be tested. There is no competition either. LLNs, LANS, Bechtel, whoever can run it has bad as they want.
Some people just don't have a backbone!
Unfortunately, you are 100% correct. They are perverse “for-profit” federal contracts by any free market standard with negative consequences for the mission and for their dedicated workforce. What will the 2026 contract change bring to LLNL?
LLNS HR as an employee protector via LLNS policies, is a complete sham. LLNS HR is 100% subservient to LLNS staff relations, and LLNS staff relations, is a 100% subservient to the for-profit LLNS LLC. That is where we are now, and have been for years.