LANLMismanagement
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LANL (Mis)Management
The LANLManagement Wiki documents historic and current mismanagement problems and programmatic failures at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Persistent Safety Problems
Criticality
Safety basis
Price-Anderson violations
Poor project justification, poor project management
DARHT
ASCI
Using operating funds for capital projects
Pit production
TA-55 Reinvestment Project
Project planning
Poor security
physical security
cyber security
High overhead in general
- Manager inflation by LANS
Problems in managing subcontracts
Environmental management problems
Research vs. actual cleanup
Waste management issues
Lost 38 drums of TRU waste
Shutdown factors (shutdown itself as testimony)
Poor quality of science
Personnel management
Change of station assignments
Double-dipping: LANL retirees consulting to LANL
Questionably high salaries and benefits
New LANS salaries and bonuses
Pervasive time and effort fraud
Questionable costs
LANL Foundation
Public relations
Pueblo accords
Criminal activity
Procurement fraud
Hard (referenced) sources
GAO
DOE IG
News accounts
DOE budgets
Soft (for guidance or sources) sources (there are many; few are shown)
POGO
Testimony of the fact officials are in jail
Individuals
Paine, �Weaponeers of Waste�
Affidavits and briefs
Employee lawsuits
Review articles by NGOs like us, etc., with sources
External Links
Los Alamos Study Group - http://lasg.org UC Student DOE Lab Oversight Committee - http://doeloc.org
