Who gets to keep what...

Miscellaneous opinions...

Lookhead Martin will lose Sandia but will get Los Alamos. Boeing and UTexas will get
Sandia. The plan will be to turn Los Alamos into a Sandia like laboratory and turn
Sandia into a science like laboratory. Bechtel keeps Livermore from now on. All this has essentially been decided. The rational is this: Lookhead Martin messed up with the congressional scandal, however Sandia runs well.

LANL is run very badly so we should put Lookhead Martin in charge. Boeing has wanted in for some time so lets give them a chance. Bechtel has run LLNL perfectly so they get to keep it for as long as it wants.

July 27, 2016 at 7:29 PM

 

 Anonymous said...

Lockheed did an extremely poor job running its one small nuclear facility at Sandia, the Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR), which been plagued with problems, for many years. I'm very skeptical that an aircraft company will be capable of running or restarting LANL's multi- (e.g. PF-4, Area G, RANT, WCRRF, WETF, CMR, RULOB upgrades, etc.) major nuclear facilities, including the accelerators (e.g. LANSCE, DAHRT).

July 28, 2016 at 4:38 AM

 

 Anonymous said...

"I'm very skeptical that an aircraft company will be capable of running or restarting LANL's multi- (e.g. PF-4, Area G, RANT, WCRRF, WETF, CMR, RULOB upgrades, etc.) major nuclear facilities, including the accelerators (e.g. LANSCE, DAHRT). "

It is not about running or not running something it is about keeping Lockheed paid.
In 10 years time when it is another failure they will go back to managing Sandia.

July 28, 2016 at 6:55 AM

 

 Anonymous said...

LANL is run very badly so we should put Lookhead Martin in charge.

NM schools bid

Lockheed Martin Corp, which has held the contract since the 1993 through its wholly owned subsidiary Sandia Corporation, announced in an emailed statement and press release Monday that the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (frequently called New Mexico Tech) and New Mexico State University had both joined a bid to manage the lab, along with Purdue University.


http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2016/07/25/two-more-nm-schools-join-a-bid-for-sandia-labs.html

Does this indicate that Lockheed will be next operator at Test Site?

Does this indicate that Lockheed will be next operator at Test Site?

http://www.goinhouse.com/jobs/451622-lockheed-martin-at-lockheed-martin

Scientific fraud

Great article on scientific fraud. Relevant the the deuterium EOS fiasco at Livermore 

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/when-scientists-lie-ian-freckleton-on-scholarly-misconduct-fraud/7660464
Note that all the fraudulent work mentioned the article was ultimately retracted. No such thing for the Livermore scientists involved in the deuterium work. Why didn't the scientific community ever demand a retraction? Also, why does NNSA continue to fund the very same people to do EOS work on NIF?

Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 483–486 (1997)
Absolute Equation of State Measurements on Shocked Liquid Deuterium up to 200 GPa (2 Mbar)

Class action lawsuit planned

 Class action lawsuit planned over Hanford pensions, benefits

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article90443167.html

Employee thefts at LANL

Business as usual with continuing employee thefts at LANL 


The new contractor has a long term mess to clean up when they take over next year.


http://www.lamonitor.com/content/pipe-fitter-accused-taking-copper-lab

POGO investigation

POGO investigation uncovers intentional mislead of WaPo by NNSA and Lab Director

A little time invested in looking at the dates should indicate which Lab Director was part of the scheme to fool the press. Since the email was sent from NNSA to OMB, it would appear that the highest levels of the administration were involved in the deception.

http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/nuclear-security/2016/nuclear-agency-rope-a-dopes.html