[FRIAM] NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

[David Eric Smith]

I remember getting the inside story on the state of Global Circulation Modeling from Chick Hearn of IGPP (Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at LANL) back in the day when I couldn’t have got that kind of field-leading judgment/perspective from anyone else I had access to.  

In the geosciences division where I worked, the group was founded to do long-range monitoring for nuclear tests, and to do the (in early days) difficult work of distinguishing explosions from earthquakes, using signals that may have traveled halfway around/through the world through who-knows how complicated a collection of acoustic media.  As monitoring became more ubiquitous and sensors more informative, and as there were fewer tests for some decades, they switched to oil and gas exploration and corporate service.  After that it was non-destructive monitoring of concrete aging for structure stability.  Then tissue analysis using sonograms.  The portfolio of closely related problems at the intersection of materials science and seismology was remarkable to me.


> On Jan 14, 2020, at 3:01 PM, George Duncan <gtduncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Based on my experience at LANL, Marcus’s assessments are correct. Indeed much of LANL activity involves basic science that most of us would find quite laudable. And many in its   technical staff are our neighbors. 
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:33 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
> < There are many powerful people in Washington who know LANL specializes in taxpayer ripoffs. >
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> I am confident the use of such a property would be for science, administration, and outreach & training functions, not secure national work.   It would probably make a lot of LANL employees happy, as many of them live in Santa Fe.    Anyway, get real, if it wasn't for all the federal money, cities in New Mexico would collapse, there would be no SFI, etc. 
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> This letter: Press conference outside Santa Fe City Hall at noon on Wednesday Jan. 15 (map) -- please come, and please recruit others
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> As we have explained in previous letters, Wednesday is the day on which the City will announce the finalists for "Master Developer" of the former College of Santa Fe site (and possibly surrounding properties as well, a 64- to ~100-acre project). The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has applied for this role. NNSA and/or Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are present in some (not all) other proposals, as tenant(s). 
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> If you live anywhere nearby please come to this joint press conference, and please ask as many friends to come as possible. Sheer attendance matters. A strong showing Wednesday will save countless hours of work later, and will give wings to efforts to push back on LANL's entirely unjustified expansion. There are many powerful people in Washington who know LANL specializes in taxpayer ripoffs. Some of them need to see some spine from us out here to take to their bosses. 
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> New Mexico is being selected to be a nuclear weapons support and sacrifice area. That now includes the Santa Fe metro area. 
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> We may not know know the outcome of this first Midtown Campus decision by noon Wednesday but regardless of that we must seize the day. 
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> While it seems absurd that NNSA could be a possible "master developer," we can't be sure that Mayor Webber and the people around him wouldn't want that -- or want, say, a training facility for plutonium workers. We just don't know. 
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> This event will also give us a chance for us to network with each other and with representatives of any other groups present, as well as speak to any City officials willing to do so. 
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