A revolving door?

 A revolving door?

“Brad Smith To Succeed Kim Lebak As President/General Manager Of N3B Los Alamos”

https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/06/05/brad-smith-to-succeed-kim-lebak-as-president-general-of-n3b-los-alamos/

LLNL “inclusiveness”?

“At LLNL, people are our most important asset…We work to develop their skills and create an inclusive environment that supports an array of professional and personal backgrounds. Together, we sustain our legacy of…”

“Inclusive environment” for LLNL “people”? Did LLNL “people” have an opportunity for timely input to the NNSA as to the benefit or harm of extending the LLNS contract for 5 more years? “Sustain our legacy”?

This is why many employees working at LLNL, despite polished mission statements and talking points (words), continue to believe they are treated like commodities (actions) resulting in further erosion of employee morale.

Three Mile Island restart

 There is a plan to restart Three Mile Island to provide power to Microsoft for its AI and cloud computing efforts:

https://www.inc.com/reuters/three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-to-restart-after-microsoft-ai-power-deal.html

Plutonium contamination in Santa Fe

Los Alamos causing issues in Sant Fe!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13765533/canyon-contaminated-plutonium-santa-fe-boom-town.html

Golden Goose award

 This is interesting -- there is a golden goose award that supports basic research:

https://www.goldengooseaward.org/

https://www.goldengooseaward.org/history

Congressman Cooper foresaw an award that would recognize the tremendous human and economic benefits of federally funded research by highlighting examples of seemingly obscure studies that have led to major breakthroughs and resulted in significant societal impact.

NNSA “Field Offices”? Really?

Is the American tax payer well served when our purported NNSA “Field Offices”are essentially populated with long term, Livermore, Los Alamos, etc. residents (buying local homes, kids going to local schools, going to local functions, parties, etc.) that commingle with NNSA contractors they are supposed to be objectively evaluating?

Why aren’t these people forced by NNSA policy, into a 6-12 month field office rotation schedule? Because this is not currently the case.

As non-rotating NNSA employees, do NNSA Field Office employees basically become a non-objective arm of the contractor, they are suppose to be evaluating?

New chatbot with reasoning capabilities

 There's a new chatbot with reasoning capabilities, which is better at working out solutions in math, physics, and computer science:

https://openai.com/o1/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242439/openai-o1-model-reasoning-strawberry-chatgpt