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The safety issues pre-dated any profit motive: "In 2005, shortly before the profit-making firms wrested majority control of the laboratory from the University
by ars 4y ago
The safety issues pre-dated any profit motive:
"In 2005, shortly before the profit-making firms wrested majority control of the laboratory from the University of California, the lab's "nuclear criticality safety program did not meet many of the" nuclear industry's standards, according to a DOE report in 2008."
The lab just doesn't have a culture of safety, it has nothing to do with profit. The profit motive was mentioned in the Japanese lab, not Los Alamos.
- bumby 4y agoIt’s possible it isn’t quite so easy to parse the profit motive in that manner. For example, I worked in a not-for-profit research facility. The top line managers were govt but the vast majority of workers were for-profit contractors. There was about a 9:1 contractor to civil servant ratio. On paper, it was a govt run facility but in practice, the for-profit culture dominated.