Was Teller wrong?

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11548419/J-Robert-Oppenheimer-father-atomic-bomb-black-mark-government-nullified.html

Architect of the American atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer is finally CLEARED - 68 years after losing his security clearance amid accusations he was a communist: Cillian Murphy to play the genius in new biopic.

I guess Teller was wrong.

Poor new On-Line training

 Poor new On-Line training, brought in as a last-minute pandemic patch.

Recycled horribly ended and recorded videos. Where the Audio Level will constantly change up and down, from section to section so distracting that it's almost impossible to follow the subject matter. Or where the person making the video didn't pay attention to the scaling, and you end up with a 3-inch Square video, in the middle of your 40 inch monitor. Yet LLNL has it in-house video production division. That generates some of the most polished videos, with a production value that is worthy of a luxury car ad. Even the most current videos that were being used during training. We're almost unintelligible and unwatchable. I realize that certain concessions had to be made due to the pandemic. We are tell Rita hands on training classes that should have taken a few hours, we're reduced down to a few minutes. No actual testing of your knowledge was done. Either the instructor would tell everyone the answers. Or you filled out whatever you thought was right and was never given feedback on your answer. The only class that still resembles anything that I would consider training. Was the first aid and CPR, happened to have an excellent instructor. All of the other classes seem to be taught by one of three instructors, and we're a fall safety and entrapment safety class, was supposed to take two and a half hours, was over in less than 20 minutes.

Module that was taught on confined spaces, was a joke. The gas detectors they had in the classroom were all broken and out of calibration. to add insult to injury the cans of specially mixed gas that you were to spray into your 5 gallon Home Depot bucket to simulate and enclosed environment we're empty. Not only did a new hire that had never worked in this field before not learn anything. More senior employees it will retaking the class, in an attempt to help the training only serve to reinforce bad habits. after working there for a few years. it became a parent that LLNL is the definition of government waste. Between the atrocious low quality online training, it was Couples with the inability to actually schedule the Hands-On training, as there was never any slots open, and when they did show up in the system they would be filled immediately. The training coordinator was oblivious to her own job. Having to make constant phone calls requesting for training classes to be scheduled. I felt no safer after completing the entire training program then I did before I started.

Theft cases

 Either the LLNS employee Copper thief that stole $117,667 worth of copper from LLNL from 2011 to 2014, is the luckiest guy on Earth for only given a misdemeanor charge, or LLNS navigated a path to minimize or eliminate a NNSA financial penalty for this chronic copper theft.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-biden-official-sam-brintons-mug-shot-released-bail-set-15000

What a waste of taxpayers'money!

 the current process seems to be specifiy whatever you want from whatever manufacturer you want it from regardless of the cost. And we will order three or four of them. Just a waste at Site 300 alone, keeps a multiple amount of recycling companies in business, scrapping stainless steel, brass and copper there are cabinets full of parts at Site 300, for various projects, that will never be used. Either they were ordered in haste, to have enough on hand only for project to be canceled. Or they were just continuously ordered by people thinking that they were still needed. As an example, a small box made by Pomona electronics. Approximately 2 in long with a BNC connector on each end, commonly they will have cable Equalization circuits built inside. I have personally seen a box that contains over 500 of these Parts enclosures unused. Yet more were ordered because these were "old and used flat blade instead of Phillips screws" each enclosure list price Which is less than the government pays, is $65 each.

When a simple 12 volt bench power supply was needed to test a strip of LED lights (from Amazon), The power supply chosen cost $2,800. Would provide 0 to 80 volts at up to 5 amps. With full computer remote control, positive and negative dual Supply rails with double ground isolation.

The lab could save enough money by just cleaning up and organizing what supplies are stuffed in too cabinets all over site 200 and Site 300. would pay for the staff needed to do the job, including testing and calibration to ensure the parts were still viable.

I understand that there's a time and place where new appointment has to be acquired, due to the fact that technology Marches On, however it seems that at LLNL new equipment has to be ordered on an hourly basis. Companies such as McMaster Carr Have made Rich by the fact that they spend $15 for one 5/8 Amber coated rust resistant Bolt.

On average 6 or more 20 yard debris boxes will leave LOL headed for recyclers. Containing tons of brass and stainless steel. Not to mention dozens more containing chassis, power supplies, random test equipment. Now some is sold at auction through govdeals.com. but it's not even 1% of the equipment absorbed into that laboratory. When we're tired we'll make it to auction.
Rather than make it available to Public Schools and colleges, or for that matter why not have a building that sells Surplus parts and equipment, to the General Public . With the understanding that the lab does not guarantee whether or not the part is fit for your application is. Site 200 Insight 300 are the true definition of government waste.

Cafeteria food quality

 Why was it necessary for the lab to privatize all of the cafeterias. And close the cafeteria at site 300. So the employees had to create a workaround by creating their own snack shacks. Where are they purchase items at Costco and store them in freezers. Should you forget to bring your lunch. I remember a time at the Nevada Test site, where the food was good, made in-house and very inexpensive. Made the assumption that this was one of the perks of working for the Federal government, in a remote location.

Now all is offered is subpar industrial food, brought in by either Cisco or nugget depending who got the contract, you will pay top dollar for food that is barely edible. Don't believe the fancy video that shows you a day in the life of a live employee. There is very little idea like about it, and the breakfast they show you when I duplicated it during my employment, it cost me $18.

Agreement reached over Hanford site contractor’s alleged hiring discrimination

“The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs found that Richland-based Washington River Protection Solutions discriminated against Hispanic applicants seeking jobs as health physics technician trainees throughout 2019.”


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/agreement-reached-over-hanford-site-contractors-alleged-hiring-discrimination/?amp=1

Major breakthrough at DOE?

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/net-energy-gain-us-scientists-makes-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion

The US department of energy has said energy secretary Jennifer Granholm and under-secretary for nuclear security Jill Hruby will announce “a major scientific breakthrough” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Tuesday.

“If this is confirmed, we are witnessing a moment of history,” said Dr Arthur Turrell, a plasma physicist whose book The Star Builders charts the effort to achieve fusion power.

“Scientists have struggled to show that fusion can release more energy than is put in since the 1950s, and the researchers at Lawrence Livermore seem to have finally and absolutely smashed this decades-old goal.” Russian propoganda?