It has been reported in several places that the Obama administration is considering transfering LANL and LLNL from the Department of Energy to the Department of Defense.
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I cannot explain how bad of an idea this is.
The Bush administration's stupidity wrt the management changes (UC to contractors) was bad enough. It axed hundreds of researcher jobs at LANL and LLNL. Now if the Labs are transfered to the Pentagon, the science there is simply dead. The purpose of the labs would simply be weapons production and research only. Los Alamos would devolve into a nuke production/research facility and really, at that point, why have LLNL and LANL...
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I cannot even express how depressed this makes me.
Guess Obama really is putting science back in its proper place.
Oh and Chu! How could you?!
Note: This is posted on my time. No opinions here are LBNL's or NERSC's. However, as Chu knows from many an all hands, keeping an LBLer from calling people on the carpet is nigh on impossible.
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I cannot explain how bad of an idea this is.
The Bush administration's stupidity wrt the management changes (UC to contractors) was bad enough. It axed hundreds of researcher jobs at LANL and LLNL. Now if the Labs are transfered to the Pentagon, the science there is simply dead. The purpose of the labs would simply be weapons production and research only. Los Alamos would devolve into a nuke production/research facility and really, at that point, why have LLNL and LANL...
...
I cannot even express how depressed this makes me.
Guess Obama really is putting science back in its proper place.
Oh and Chu! How could you?!
Note: This is posted on my time. No opinions here are LBNL's or NERSC's. However, as Chu knows from many an all hands, keeping an LBLer from calling people on the carpet is nigh on impossible.
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