Science-based stockpile stewardship at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
I would like to start by working from Vic Reis`s total quality management diagram in which he began with the strategy and then worked through the customer requirements-what the Department of Defense (DoD) is hoping for from the science-based stockpile stewardship program. Maybe our customer`s requirements will help guide some of the issues that we should be working on. ONe quick answer to {open_quotes}why have we adopted a science-based strategy{close_quotes} is that nuclear weapons are a 50-year responsibility, not just a 5-year responsibility, and stewardship without testing is a grand challenge. While we can do engineering maintenance and turn over and remake a few things on the short time scale, without nuclear testing, without new weapons development, and without much of the manufacturing base that we had in the past, we need to learn better just how these weapons are actually working.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 183670
- Report Number(s):
- LA--12995-C; CONF-9502128--; ON: DE96002401
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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