LANL is now requiring chemical hazards training for anything that has an msds. Toilet paper has an msds. You can't even use the bathroom at LANL without training.
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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There is a nice recent NYT article on this. See below. This discusses that transformation of Los Alamos into a manufacturing facility is going to be challenging due to the infrastructure issues, age of the facilities, cost and even culture.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/los-alamos-nuclear-program.html
Pretty soon we will also have to bottle and label all of our waste, and I do mean ALL of it, not just the TP.
Just don't forget that you can't store it in the satellite accumulation point longer than 30 days.