H2-boron plasma fusion breakthrough

 H2-boron plasma fusion breakthrough

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/100-000-years-of-power-us-japan-team-hails-h2-boron-plasma-fusion-breakthrough/2-1-1411318

Lab leak likely origin of COVID

 I know some people will say this has nothing to do with the labs, however DOE, LLNL and LANL did a lot of high profile work on Covid and even it so origins. Now DOE is is saying the lab leak is the most likely scenario.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a
Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says
U.S. agency’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence

So this would just make relations between China and the US even worse. It is amazing how in 2004 we went from Nanos, members of congress and even people at the labs saying how the labs are irrelevant and nuclear weapons will play no role in the future of the world. Now in 2023 we closer to nuclear war than most of the times in the cold war. Of course some weird blog naysayer will say this is irrelevant to the labs. I am not sure if these people are just miss-informed, really bitter, or some kind of foreign trolls.

Blog purpose

 This BLOG is for LLNL present and past employees, friends of LLNL and anyone impacted by the privatization of the Lab to express their opinions and expose the waste, wrongdoing and any kind of injustice against employees and taxpayers by LLNS/DOE/NNSA. “

Scooby, I think your blog purpose statement is valuable. When there are topics relating to Ukraine, ballon’s from foreign countries drifting over the USA, etc., there is interest and usually, reasonably polite comments exchanged. However, it seems as soon as a topic focuses on your actual impact of privatization blog purpose statement above, the discussion quickly becomes polarized, where some commenters would like to table value added Lab changes, while others think the subject is out of our collective lane.

The 2014 article below suggests a “public interest model” for NNSA Labs. It doesn’t explicitly state the for-profit management model is on the way out, but as we know, LANL has been managed by a non-profit contractor since 2018.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2014/05/nuclear-weapons-complex-reform-could-mean-pay-cut-contractors/84475/

Fire at Oak Ridge

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11781695/Fire-involving-URANIUM-breaks-Tennessee-National-Security-Complex.html

Not only that but I leaned the first atomic bomb was built in Tennessee.

"The Oak Ridge complex was home to the Manhattan Project for research and development during World War II, which produced the first nuclear weapons."

Treaty suspended

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin-speech_n_63f48a5ce4b0c87f32f319d7

Putin also said that Russia would suspend its participation in a treaty aimed at keeping a lid on nuclear weapons expansion. The so-called New START Treaty was signed by Russia and the U.S. in 2010. It caps the number of long-range nuclear warheads they can deploy and limits the use of missiles that can carry atomic weapons.

On the up side maybe everyone start testing again! woo hoo!!!

Off-topic

 So the Physics-Theory Division had a fairly controversial Speaker:

Dr. Taharee A. Jackson, she has written some pretty hard left CRT, DEI stuff that is mixed with strong extreme left wing politics. Type her name into google and you will see what I mean.

Why was this talk in seminar series for science, it had no actual science in it at
all. Overall the talk had a lot of personal anecdotes a lot of comments that where completely wrong and very little in the way of actual statistics. All the tropes against men and whites are known to be completely wrong and trivial to check. Some of the specific actions to do at the workplace seemed legit but we already have a lot of this already but maybe someone got something of it. The talk also seemed to have clear political bent to with. I liked the picture with DeSantis as a bad guy. She should have stuck with specific actions, links to other programs that work and so on.

LLNL to be Test-Bed for Future NNSA Contracts

LLNL to be Test-Bed for Future NNSA Contracts

https://www.defensedaily.com/new-livermore-model-contract-could-help-shape-coming-competition-for-pantex-nnsa-official-says/nuclear-modernization/