Things are going sideways at Los Alamos. Any news at LLNL?
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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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However not to be too conspiratorial but did Project 2025 say anything about the DOE/NNSA labs?
The budget may well be going up at LANL so it is not surprising that more people are getting hired. It all depends on the job you are doing. The issue is that certain portion of the budget are going up and certain portions are going down some managers are now saying that it is clear that just moving people around is not feasible in all cases so things are going to get rough. All I know is that someone pointed out that the Director said that the science portion of the lab is going down but gave go details.
Yes, it says that NNSA labs should only do nukes. No science or even DOD technology development, for that matter.
Our only hope against complete destruction is for Democrats to regain the majorities in Congress next year. Otherwise, the labs will be a shell of a lab.