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Heather Wilson tries to distance herself from Sandia scandal

Heather Wilson tries to distance herself from Sandia scandal:

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/regents-chair-gives-wilson-full-support/article_74550d74-22e5-5f96-bebd-83d98dc801e9.html

Heckavajob, McMillan. In addition to losing over $220 million in future clean-up work at LANL, LANS mismanagement also helped result in over $54 million in fines from the state of New Mexico. Charlie, however, will keep his job along with his perky $2 million per year in LANS compensation, no doubt.

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Mishaps at nuke repository lead to $54M in fines
AP News - Dec 6th 2014

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico on Saturday levied more than $54 million in penalties against the U.S. Department of Energy for numerous violations that resulted in the indefinite closure of the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository.

The state Environment Department delivered a pair of compliance orders to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, marking the state's largest penalty ever imposed on the agency. Together, the orders outline more than 30 state permit violations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico and at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The orders and the civil penalties that come with them are just the beginning of possible financial sanctions the Energy Department could face in New Mexico. The state says it's continuing to investigate and more fines are possible.

news.yahoo.com/mishaps-nuke-repository
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Upper management being held accountable at LANL? Nah, that hardly ever happens unless some outside agency discovers massive screw-ups.

LANL makes POGO top billing

LANL makes POGO top billing 


Here are the opening and closing paragraphs, and the entire letter is at the link below:


In the interests of greater contractor accountability, this letter urges that seriously reduced performance award fees be awarded to Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) for its management performance in FY 2014. The days of hefty profits and contract extensions granted through waivers to performance standards should be long over. In our view, LANS’ incentive award fee should be cut at least in half because of its inability to perform major plutonium operations at PF-4, and its unauthorized changes to transuranic waste handling procedures that led to radioactive contamination of workers and the closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.


To sum up, as a matter of good governance, proper federal oversight and contractor accountability, we again urge you to cut LANS’ possible incentive award fee for FY 2014 at least in half. Moreover, given its major failures, you should seriously consider whether it is in the best interests of the American taxpayer to have LANS continue to operate the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

http://www.pogo.org/our-work/letters/2014/watchdogs-urge-the-energy-dept.html

Federal funds unable to sustain subsidy of New Mexico economy

Federal funds unable to sustain subsidy of New Mexico economy


Federal dollars, along with the energy industry in southeastern New Mexico, have fueled the state's economy for decades. Besides Los Alamos, where the atomic bomb was developed, the state is home to Sandia National Laboratories, three Air Force bases, the Army's White Sands Missile Range and several national forests and parks. In all, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trust's Fiscal Federalism Initiative, about 35 percent of New Mexico's economy comes from the federal government ? the highest such figure for any state.

But critics say an inability to diversify the economy has exacerbated income disparities. They say that at a time of tight federal budgets, the state can no longer afford to stake its economic future on government spending.

Unless New Mexico can attract new industries, workers will have to settle for whatever lower-paying government jobs are available or for low-wage work in the service industry, according to political leaders and experts on the state's economy.

"The rest of the nation is subsidizing New Mexico," said Jake Arnold, a political consultant and longtime New Mexican. "It's like the Third World. ... All these people are fighting over crumbs."



http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mexico-struggles-federal-largess-27339120?singlePage=true

Libya's WMDs

We've just posted part 4 of William Tobey's gripping account of the effort to persuade Libya to give up its WMD. Part 5 should post tomorrow. I hope you find it of interest!

Best regards,

Janice

A message from Libya: The path to interdiction http://ow.ly/FxH2P

Part 2: Qaddafi agrees "so that the color green will be all over the world” http://ow.ly/FxHpx

Part 3: What do you do with a plastic shopping bag full of nuclear weapon designs? http://ow.ly/FxHxH

Part 4:  How long does it take to pack and ship a WMD program?http://ow.ly/FxI1d

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Janice Sinclaire

Internet Outreach Coordinator

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Chicago, IL  60637

U.S.A.

Fmr. LANL Dep. Director Suspended

from the NS&D Monitor

 

Fmr. LANL Dep. Director Suspended from Gov’t Work, NNSA Seeking Three-Year Debarment

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory Deputy Director Beth Sellers and her husband, Bill, have been suspended from doing work with the government and have been proposed for debarment after a laboratory consulting scandal, government records indicate. Sellers resigned as Los Alamos’ deputy director in March after an investigation by the Department of Energy’s Inspector General revealed that Sellers and her husband failed to notify lab officials of a potential conflict of interest before her husband, a consultant to the lab, was awarded a sole-source contract. Sellers’ husband also billed the lab for work that he never performed, the IG said. Sellers, a Bechtel executive, was suspended from doing work with the government Nov. 13 in a somewhat rare move for weapons complex contractors, and proceedings are underway for her to be debarred for three years. Her husband, Bill, was suspended Sept. 19 and is also facing a three-year debarment.

According to the government’s System for Award Management, Sellers and her husband are preliminarily ineligible to contract with the government “based upon adequate evidence of conduct indicating a lack of business honesty or integrity, or a lack of business integrity, or regulation, statute, executive order or other legal authority, pending completion of an investigation and/or legal proceedings; or based upon initiation of proceedings to determine final ineligibility based upon regulation, statute, executive order or other legal authority or a lack of business integrity or a preponderance of the evidence of any other cause of a serious and compelling nature that it affects present responsibility.” In a statement toNS&D Monitor, Beth Sellers said she was in the process of responding to government as part of the debarment proceedings. “I have dedicated nearly three decades of my life to federal service and have always demonstrated the highest levels of personal integrity,” she said. “I will be responding to the government notice to address their concerns.” Sellers has been managing special projects for Bechtel since leaving Los Alamos in March. Bechtel said in a statement, “We respect the process and believe it would be inappropriate and premature for us to comment further.”