NNSA Pit Strategy Unlikely to Meet Production Deadline

New Study Finds NNSA Pit Strategy Unlikely to Meet Production Deadline, Lawmaker Says

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/235121-2/?printmode=1

Pedigree and productivity

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/02/study-when-it-comes-research-output-where-phds-get-hired-matters-more-where-they

This is an interesting study that shows that faculty productivity depends on mostly on the institution where one is at not the institution where one got their Phd.

The message is that if the organization is excellent it brings up everything. This was an argument used in the past at the labs as why we needed excellence at the labs. In other words having excellence in open science will bring up the quality of all parts of the lab. 

Nevada fights back!

https://www.apnews.com/6484e2d98ea44f98a64b3d20ce359f02
The inability to send plutonium to Nevada has long term consequences for the nuclear weapons labs!

Bechtel Earns 47.9% of fee

Bechtel Earns 47.9% of Available 2018 Fee for Hanford Waste Treatment Plant

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/bechtel-earns-47-9-available-2018-fee-hanford-waste-treatment-plant/

Fight over America’s nuclear arsenal heats up in Congress

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/03/22/fight-over-americas-nuclear-arsenal-heats-up-in-congress/

This has the potential to drastically change the NNSA and the weapons laboratories. What do those who contribute to this blog think?

Lindsey Graham rails DOE, NNSA during hearing

"You're making this up as you go": Sen. Lindsey Graham rails DOE, NNSA during hearing

https://www.aikenstandard.com/news/you-re-making-this-up-as-you-go-sen-lindsey/article_53bb5c00-56e9-11e9-b8a7-279feb615aa4.html

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/review-of-the-fy2020-budget-request-for-the-national-nuclear-security-administration

Perry approves sale of nuc technology to Saudi Arabia

https://splinternews.com/trump-administration-selling-nuclear-technology-to-sau-1833626721