Is someone watching us?

 https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alien-mothership-lurking-solar-system-182409773.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS5teC8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMNcF-KsSRE6wzlReGW_7hWI8fkV3r8ckfPdBsZ8zrPwKknat-NWJl-cDWoRbw6x1dpzfWMa6PANYO97HI3lOS_yZeKOhzp4B6ybUJkU6PuHt56eo2kJ3r1rxSLa6rNljV5SmwGn0HUSoFDRdRqprJmO_gPCmGpNZjm8uOJfbUsX

War with Aliens dimming.

Good news!

The IEA said that more than a third of the world’s electricity will come from renewables in 2025

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/electricity-generation-renewables-power-iea/ 

North Korea's threat

 Exclusive: Seoul mayor calls for South Korean nuclear weapons to counter threat from North

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/seoul-mayor-calls-south-korean-nuclear-weapons-counter-threat-north-2023-03-13/

Maybe they can get Bechtel to manage their lab.

Laser shots at NIF...

... 

could spark additional discoveries in astrophysics

https://www.newswise.com/doescience/laser-shots-at-national-ignition-facility-could-spark-additional-discoveries-in-astrophysics/?article_id=788186

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/