Just how did LANL manage to get WIPP closed?

Just how did LANL manage to get WIPP closed?

By Jeri Clausing / Associated Press
PUBLISHED: Thursday, June 26, 2014 at 1:40 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A state regulator says officials investigating a radiation leak from the government’s underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico have turned their focus to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

New Mexico Environment Department General Counsel Jeff Kendall said Thursday that the Department of Energy’s accident investigation team has been at the lab in northeastern New Mexico for about three weeks.

Kendall said that probe is one of just nine underway into what caused a barrel of toxic waste from Los Alamos to burst at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico, contaminating 22 workers and shuttering the nation’s only permanent repository for waste from nuclear bomb building.

Kendall made the comments during a New Mexico Court of Appeals hearing on a dispute with a watchdog group over the permitting process for WIPP.

http://www.abqjournal.com/421129/north/north-news/nuke-leak-probe-focuses-on-los-alamos-national-lab.html

overt failure

Report recommends additional penalties for Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories “because of the overt nature of Sandia and Los Alamos’ actions and their failure to fully comply with federal direction in this case.”

http://www.abqjournal.com/209187/politics/federal-report-labs-wrongfully-hired-wilson-as-lobbyist.html

June 27, 2014 at 3:02 AM

 

 Anonymous said...

It was pay to play. And when you think of it, Bechtel was brought in for their expertise and this is right up their alley.

UC COLA

Just love those once a year UC Retirement COLA increases! No appraisals and no BS too!

Does LLNL deserve 3.4 stars on Glassdoor.com?

Does LLNL deserve 3.4 stars on Glassdoor.com?

Sandia's Solid State Lighting EFRC

Sandia's Solid State Lighting EFRC (Energy Frontier Research Center) was up for renewal at DOE this year. This funding effort was an $18 million dollar effort with a lifespan of 5 years (2009-2014). As of June 18, 2014, it was officially announced by DOE that the EFRC renewal proposal submitted by Sandia this year was not renewed.

Prepping for a RIF?

thief said...

From Newsline:

The Laboratory's Personnel Policy Manual (PPM), Section G - "Benefits" has been updated to ensure compliance with Contract 44, state and federal laws.

There are numerous changes including the following:

II.7 "Termination Vacation Pay" - all terminating employees will separate employment on their last day worked, regardless of the reason for the termination. Those employees who are retiring from the Laboratory will need to report to work on their final day of employment and will be paid for all hours worked as well as remaining accrued vacation leave on their last day worked, and IV.4 "Effect on Personnel Policies" and VIII.6 "LWOP for Temporary Workers' Compensation" - employees on leave for a worker's compensation injury or illness will accrue leave only if they meet the standard eligibility criteria.

The revised policy language can be viewed here. These revisions are effective June 22. For questions related to these changes, contact Patricia Rzeszutko.

Thoughts on O&B?

Thoughts on O&B?