Bechtel employees and TCP1

Most people don't know that Bechtel employees who work at LANL for a short while are able to join TCP1. New employees can't get into TCP1 and it isn't clear what requirements they have before being able to get a pension. Looks like a big perk at the expense of the employees who have been paying in to the system for many years. How many more special considerations will be set up before the contract is finally taken away from these incompetent money grubbers?

February 28, 2016 at 1:09 PM

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TCP-1 vesting is 5 years

Bay ARea Transit to Livermore

Targeted for 2025-2027.
http://www.independentnews.com/news/livermore-city-council-to-discuss-development-near-future-bart-station/article_7ae9b9be-dbc4-11e5-ada2-3f3a89b15b4c.html

NNSA to build new facility in NM for 1,100 employees

ALBUQUERQUE -- On Thursday, Feb. 18, the Administrator of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz (Ret.), Sen. Martin Heinrich (N.M.), and Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) will visit the NNSA’s Albuquerque Complex and discuss the status of the current NNSA administrative workspace in Albuquerque and the proposal to construct a new facility for the 1,100 employees who work there. 

BACKGROUND: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) proposes to construct a new facility for the 1,100 employees who work at the agency’s Albuquerque Complex at Kirtland Air Force Base. The existing site does not meet the same facility standards maintained at other NNSA facilities. Portions of the current facility, a former military barracks, are more than 60 years old with a number of safety, health, and quality of life issues.

NNSA leadership is committed to the safety and well-being of its employees. New construction would allow for a modern and efficient facility suited for NNSA’s needs in Albuquerque. The NNSA Albuquerque Complex Project is a top priority for the NNSA Administrator, and NNSA is requesting funding authority from Congress for this construction.

LANL 2017 RFPs

Will employees at LANL attempt to identify and communicate principle RFP criteria for the 2017 LANL contract, or sit on the sidelines and hope for the best? Guess what the self-proclaimed "lions" and "winners" want to happen?

LANL gets hit with PNOV for WIPP accident

PNOV=Prelimary Notice Of Violation

The lack of a fine in this case must be comforting to all the residents around Carlsbad.


http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2016/02/f29/Posting%20copy%20LANS%20PNOV%202-18-16%20%28NEA-2016-01%29.pdf
 

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Did you actually read the article? The PNOV is the END of the process regarding the 2014 release and fire at WIPP, which have been endlessly debated on this blog and elsewhere. The fines were levied last year, as were the low ratings. Try to keep up.

LANL/LLNL financial risk

How is it that a set of (non-profit) universities would not bid on future contracts to operate LANL or LLNL for fear of some "grand financial risk" given LANS simply faced a reduction in their award fee by 90% for one year related to their WIPP failures?

What was that explosion last night?

Last night around 7:30pm'ish I heard and felt a big boom at my house. At first, I thought it was a dresser falling over or a car wreck out front. I search around and found nothing.
A couple hours later I saw a post on the Livermore Rants and Raves FB Group about the boom too. Many people throughout Livermore and Tracy heard and felt it.
Wow, that most have been a large explosion considering we have the Altamont Pass between these two cities.
Tracy Press claimed it was LLNL. LLNL denied it was them. Livermore Police Department knew nothing about it when I called them around 10pm. Tracy Police Department said it was SRI Laboratories which I am assuming is near LNLL's site 300 way out Tesla Road on Corral Hollow Road in Tracy - which is over 20 miles from my house and on the other side of the Altamont Pass from me.
Again, that was a large explosion to be felt that far away. LLNL claims they do not do test explosions at night time. I would imagine other Labs would follow suit.
Considering that we have two National Defense Laboratories that are known for their Nuclear Weapons and the worlds largest laser, my concern is starting to grow.
If one of these labs was conducting a test at this magnitude, wouldn't they notify the Livermore and Tracy police?
My guess, is something went wrong. So what was it? Do the Livemore and Tracy residence need to be concerned?
Think about it.