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UT REGENTS REQUEST

UT Regents' Special Session requesting funds for LANL management transition and for a consultant, Willard Robert (Bob) Logan

From Houston Chronicle, 15 May 2018: UT System says it needs up to $7 million for Los Alamos management transition:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/UT-System-says-it-needs-up-to-7-million-for-Los-12916798.php

Link to UT Regents 18 May special meeting ("posted meeting" link contains agenda:
https://www.utsystem.edu/board-of-regents/meetings/board-meeting-2018-05-18

Latest rumor

Is that U-Texas with Boeing have won the LANL contract. Seems like lots of local managers
at LANL have gone silent since most would have been part of the UC or Bechtel bids.

Big vote of confidence

https://www.ladailypost.com/content/wallace-plutonium-decision-big-vote-confidence-los-alamos-national-laboratory

Extension?

So the 11th comes and goes and no decision by NNSA on LANL contract award. Get ready for the same thing that happened with the EM contract. Two LANS extensions and then a bonus 6 months or more of protesting the award. LANS for 18 more months folks.

Mox Fuel Fabrication Facility

Hahahaha!!!! NNSA decided that the Mox Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) in South Carolina can be “repurposed” into a pit production facility by 2030 at a rate of 50 War Reserve. This is ridiculous! They might eventually make it happen, but there is zero chance that they have it by 2030. I cannot wait to watch DoD and Congress thump NNSA for this idiotic decision as the years and billions of dollars slip away. makes you wonder if their real objective was 1) punish LANL 2) flow money to SC for their Senator and/or 3) they are secretly anti nuke. Of course, this will distract everyone from the MFFF slow death that had been happening.

Recapitalization of Plutonium Pit Production

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/joint-statement-ellen-m-lord-and-lisa-e-gordon-hagerty-recapitalization-plutonium-pit