New Mexico budget crisis.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2020-04-28/new-mexico-finance-secretary-resigns-as-budget-crisis-looms

New Mexico and Santa Fe headed towards a financial crisis. The Los Alamos study group will again suggest closing down LANL as a way to save money for New Mexico since according to them Los Alamos creates poverty. How it does that is beyond me.

Concern as coronavirus threatens Russia's closed ‘nuclear cities’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/concern-as-coronavirus-threatens-russias-closed-nuclear-cities

The head of Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation has expressed concern about the spread of the new coronavirus to three “nuclear cities”, including one that houses a top-secret research institute that helped develop the Soviet atomic bomb.

Overdue investigation

In 2012, did LLNS management present an "intent to dismiss" letter to a young NIF employee just days before he committed suicide? Perhaps an impartial investigation is overdue.

Former LANL staff member in National Academy of Sciences.

Former LANL staff member from T-Div elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Jarzynski, Christopher; distinguished university professor and director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park

Chris left LANL sometime after LANS came in.

Q-Clearance question

If you lie about something on your own 5 year security update regarding not paying your taxes, bankruptcy, a DWI, drug use, etc., you could have your Q-Clearance removed.

What happens to a person with a Q-Clearance who knowingly lies about someone else who has a Q-Clearance with comparable but untrue allegations? In other words, what happens to employees that purposefully weaponize Q-Clearance information against another employee with false information?

Los Alamos employees punished

It was just a matter of time ...

Los Alamos employees who have charged the COVID leave code are now getting punished.

NNSA does not waste any time

NNSA Puts CARES Act Relief Language Into Prime Contracts

"Not much sooner than Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette provided the guidance for doing so, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) added language to its prime contracts for major nuclear-weapon sites for billing the government for paid time off..."

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/nnsa-gets-cares-act-relief-language-prime-contracts/