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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I have no idea what it actually means. Does this mean get rid of NASA and DOE or get rid of bureaucratic aspects in these agencies? The latter could be useful. The issue is how do you do it? You need to identify what is bureaucratic and could be cut. It would take some time and I assume the agencies will adapt.
I am not sure I buy that (1) We have no idea if any cuts to DOE and NNSA are coming. (2) If they do come it could be done in a way that if very effective and improves DOE. (3) Everyone knows we have huge amount of waste and inefficiencies at the NNSA labs. However after dealing with some other gov organizations I think the NNSA labs are not the first places I would cut.
A number of places have problems getting people come into work after Covid and it seems to be worse in government organizations as opposed to private places. They could simply say, you need to show up to work and it could get rid of 10% or more of the workforce. I am not kidding. By the way I know some people can work from home and be even more effective but this is just a small percentage of people.
“In response to security and management weaknesses, in 1999 the Congress created the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a separately organized agency within the Department of Energy…Since its creation, NNSA has continued to experience security problems, such as unauthorized access to a NNSA unclassified computer system, and cost and schedule overruns on its major projects, such as the National Ignition Facility…”
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-07-36#:~:text=In%20response%20to%20security%20and,Department%20of%20Energy%20(DOE).