Posted on 09/18/2004 2:45:10 PM PDT by Willie Green
A Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist charged Friday that "national security has suffered demonstrably" and the nuclear weapons lab's reputation has been unjustly maligned because of director George "Pete" Nanos' decision in July to suspend work at the lab while cracking down on safety problems.
The physicist, 32-year lab veteran Brad Lee Holian, has submitted a 1,500- word article outlining his charges to the journal Physics Today. The article has not yet been accepted for publication. Holian works in the T-12 division of the University of California-run lab in New Mexico.
Contrary to Nanos' harsh public comments about his own staff members, statistics show that Los Alamos has an admirable safety record "exceeding even Du Pont's" -- a noted chemical laboratory that is "an acknowledged leader in industrial safety" -- Holian wrote in his submission to Physics Today.
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Let's see... The scientists are teed off because someone has come in who expects them to do their job according to the rules. Must me liberals.
Does this mean that Du Pont also lose disks with nuke (or maybe chemical weapons) secrets regularly? Boggles the mind
The Chinese are pissed, their nuke programs are on hold until the lab is back in operation.
Time for you to retire Mr. Holian.
Prima donas. I know, I've worked there.
Wasn't it Wen Ho Lee who sent computer-loads of secrets off to China from Los Alamos? And weren't a bunch of discs left behind a water cooler or something? And then the idiot Clinton put in charge of the place changed the security badges so everybody could go anywhere? Security? What security?
Lately it looks like we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. Can't these guys take security seriously?
Which division?
As an outside contractor.
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