NIF results

NIF results published as a PRL http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/13

Next lab director?

The lead guitarist of Queen has a PhD in astrophysics and experience as a university chancellor, he might as well be the next lab director: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May

Is this true?

Well I heard (second hand) that workers at the Lab who change light bulbs can make as much as $58.00 an hour plus benefits plus possibly a pension (TCP-1). Is this true? Have we gone nuts!!! This is the upside world a Liberal union brings to our society. I do not think the Lab pays starting PHD's that. Next they will be giving campaign contributions to their liberal colleagues (Democrats)just to corrupt the system a little more. This is all from Democratic policies. Used to be Republicans were somewhat corrupt with Big Business but there is no question that the Democratic Party is by far the most corrupt. Oh I can't see my lights went out. Let me supply an account number to pay the poor union victim to come over and exhaust themselves changing my light bulb. Keep voting Democratic, it's ok they are for the workers.

More about LIFE

LIFE was so close to working. This is what Mike Dunne had to say in a recent article ( http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_27-1-2014-9-56-31): "To speed up the timeline to energy generation, Mike and his team have collaborated with engineers from the power industry to create a design for a steam turbine to capture heat from the reaction. This means that once ignition is reached, fewer hurdles will stand in the way of adapting the system to feed into an electrical grid."

LIFE R.I.P.

We should all enjoy the LIFE website while we can https://life.llnl.gov/letter.php

INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT

INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT - ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS? The Office of Inspector General has issued a report titled “Performance of Work for a Non-Department Entity at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory," (INS-O-14-01). This report is now available for viewing and can be accessed by clicking the link below: http://energy.gov/node/796196 If you are unable to access this report, please call (202) 586-4128 for assistance.

Why the federal outsourcing boom is failing Americans

Good article in the Washingtonpost about outsourcing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-federal-outsourcing-boom-and-why-its-failing-americans/2014/01/31/21d03c40-8914-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html?tid=hpModule_14fd66a0-9199-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239&hpid=z14