LLNL - The True Story -

  You can check   https://bnym.accessmyretirement.com   for access to your check history. Julys check is processing.

  Any clue as to the amount of the upcoming LLNS retiree COLA due July1?

  I'm reading here that at least 2 LLNS employee deaths (that we know of) may have been prevented with appropriate management employee engagement. My question is, how do these loss of life tragedy stats differ from other USA employers if they do at all? Are LLNS employment related death stats consistent with non-government funded employers?

  From the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies... "Russia’s Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons and Its Views of Limited Nuclear War Dr Sidharth Kaushal and Sam Cranny-Evans 21 June 2022 Russia’s nonstrategic nuclear weapons are designed to achieve deterrence and military success against a technologically superior opponent. They are unlikely to be deployed in Ukraine. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s nonstrategic nuclear arsenal has come to play an increasingly important role in its defensive plans. The definition of nonstrategic nuclear weapons in Russian parlance covers weapons with a range of less than 5,500 km. Tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) are a sub-category of nonstrategic nuclear weapons that are limited in range, typically to 500 km. Most such weapons are in the kiloton (kt) range. For example, the nuclear capable SSC-8 carries a 10kt warhead. Notably, some Russian missiles which fall into the category of strategic weapons, such as th...

  Who is Deterring Whom? The Place of Nuclear Weapons in Modern War https://warontherocks.com/2022/06/who-is-deterring-whom-the-place-of-nuclear-weapons-in-modern-war/ "In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, old questions about nuclear deterrence have been revisited by a broad swath of academics, scholars, and pundits who have spent the past three decades acclimated to a climate of dramatically reduced nuclear risk. For those of us working in what has been a niche subfield, the attention has been both validating and, at times, surprising. What is not often said is that nuclear deterrence is working and, as a result, both the United States and Russia face constraints in how they approach conflict that involves the other. Nuclear deterrence has limited the escalation of the conflict in profound ways, despite brutal fighting, heavy casualties, and the supply of substantial amounts of Western weaponry to Ukraine. This is welcome news, but there is a caution: There is no guarante...

  LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY Contractor Improving in Safety and Other Areas but Still Faces Challenges https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-105412.pdf

  Why are we increasing the NNSA budget by billions? We could give that money to Ukraine to fight Russia.

With LLNS desperate for employees they have given out retention bonuses to key employees working on select projects. The rumor is only 1/2 of the employees received this bonus. With moral so low how do they think the other half of the employees will take it? I am guessing it will turn out like when some of the trades were allowed to work on Davis-Bacon work and others (former employees now) and others were not. Or like when some employees were working “unlimited “ overtime and others were not allowed to work any. I think two guys who worked together for 30 years got into a fist fight over that one.

  Have any of the National Labs adopted an anonymous "lessons learned" framework to openly review and address the impacts of an employee's state of well being (defined as comfortable, healthy, and happy), in the work environment while still adhering to HIPAA requirements? There are many projects at LLNL, where employees are exposed to chronic and acute high levels of stress on a daily basis. Unfortunately, these stresses may lead to sadness, depression, helplessness, high blood pressure, heart attacks, substance abuse, etc. LLNL has frequent "lessons learned" in print and on our internal Lab website to openly review employee injuries like, mixing incompatible materials, electrocutions/shock, etc., usually a result of not precisely following an established work/safety procedure. The goal of the "lessons learned" is to prevent future injury and or facility damage. Such accidents may be considered defendable from a liability perspective since the employee...

 Where is the National Ignition Facility in all of this?  https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/05/world/iter-nuclear-fusion-climate-intl-cnnphotos/

 I am saddened by the multitude of massacres happening all over the country.  Today,  it is in Uvalde, TX. Tomorrow in ? As a massacre takes place,  we hear prayers from GOP representatives and senators.  Their ideological and therefore blind commitment to owning firearms with no control is the cause . How many times has the President and democratic leaders reassured them that the 2nd amendment will be preserved and that the goal is to avoid senseless massacres?  Why would someone need an AK or an AR to hunt or to defend themselves?  Why would GOP blindness cost the lives of so many?  Who are the next victims?  I ask that everyone who visits the blog to flood their senators and reps with demands to revisit the issue.  The massacres will not stop. We just don't know who is next!  Julian

  https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/safety-questions-arise-as-los-alamos-national-laboratory-pursues-pit-production/article_0fb60822-c651-11ec-9d78-8f2a8e8b2a10.html Safety questions arise as Los Alamos National Laboratory pursues pit production. The comment section is filled the Mello and Coglan going at each other. These guys head the Los Alamos Study Group and the Nuclear Watch Group. I know these guys do not get along but it seems it has amped up the past few years and now they are just going...nuclear on each other!!!! It is like LANL is not really the focus it is all just saying the other side is are liars and dishonest. I am not sure what is going on but I suspect it may have something to do with money and a big donor having to choose. I could just picture Mello " I would rathe the world be destroyed and turned into a nuclear wasteland than let Coghlan win!!!!!.

  Over 14+ years later, did honor and real scientific and engineering talent, fall by the wayside to dishonor, greed, and easy profit when LLNS took over LLNL management?

  "Russian troops exposed to radiation, Chernobyl experts say | USA TODAY" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E3cx5ejgv_w

https://www.statista.com/chart/20347/science-and-engineering-articles-published/ A bit older https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-ties-the-US-as-the-most-influential-nation-in-science TOKYO China now ranks as the most influential country in four of eight core scientific fields, matching the U.S., according to the Japan Science and Technology Agency. It is clear the US if falling behind. The question is what doe it mean for the NNSA labs?