Interesting speculation from MIT on how Burevestnik works with commentary from @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social, who sums it up: "kind of useless.... It might be a bad idea, it's almost certainly a terrible idea," he said. "But it's not an impossible idea."
Los Alamos continues to trim away administrative controls to speed up plutonium work, now to include the frequency of Pu inventories. For a facility that saw an exodus of criticality safety workers a decade ago due to violations, this is troubling. Admin controls are an important part of safety.
In a story for Source NM, northern New Mexico journalist Alicia Inez Guzmán, recently a NYT fellow reporting on the $1.7-trillion-effort to modernize America’s nuclear arsenal, delves into the fed's decision to stop paying to test Los Alamos National Laboratory's Rio Grande runoff.
Impressions on the recent NPT review conference from my colleague, @gkucs.bsky.social: "If justice delayed is justice denied, how much longer should the non-nuclear states wait?"
When we subcontract our military and space programs, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to see "surge pricing".
The associated GAO report:
Just as the US is poised to see a huge increase in nuclear waste production from Pu pit production, the people responsible for handling it are gone. Per GAO, DOE-Environmental Management has 45% vacancy. All the facility oversight positions at WIPP are vacant. What could go wrong?
"Ignorance is a wasting disease, a death of a thousand cuts. A gradual 'falling behind' the rest of the world, not only in the ability to advance basic science, but also in the ability to educate, innovate, and retain the best and the brightest minds."
—Ben Santer, always with the bangers
A final public hearing on the environmental impacts from plutonium pit production will occur in Washington DC, Weds, May 20th, 2pm, Southwest Library, Large Meeting Room
900 Wesley Pl, SW, Washington, DC 20024
A recent hearing in North Augusta, South Carolina drew large local opposition to new nuclear warhead production in and around their communities.
By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social
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MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."
Efforts to reduce administrative burdens and streamline operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory's PF-4 plutonium facility have increased the amount
The Buckman Direct Diversion is now paying to test drinking water from the Rio Grande after the feds stopped picking up the tab
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Ignorance is a wasting disease, a death of a thousand cuts. A gradual “falling behind” the rest of the world, not only in the ability to advance basic science, but also in the ability to educate, inno...
"Within weeks of the United States launching its bombing campaign, SpaceX executives met Pentagon officials and argued the military had been paying about $5,000 for connection per terminal while effectively using a higher tier of service worth closer to $25,000" www.reuters.com/business/aer...
As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for...
