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And the Lawrence Livermore Bid Losers Are...

Previous bids to take over LLNL came in from a team led by Northrop Grumman, and a peace-seeking group called "Livermore Lab Green." But it’s not like they ever thought they’d win: "We do not believe the Department of Energy is going to choose our bid. But that isn’t how I define ‘winning,’ " said […]

Previous bids to take over LLNL came in from a team led by Northrop Grumman, and a peace-seeking group called "Livermore Lab Green." But it's not like they ever thought they'd win:

"We do not believe the Department of Energy is going to choose our bid.
But that isn't how I define 'winning,' " said Marylia Kelley, one of the Bay
Area's best-known critics of the lab. She runs Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities
Against a Radioactive Environment), an activist group that in its 23 years of existence has won widespread respect for its serious and studied approach to its work.

But, Kelly said, if her group's bid encourages public support for phasing out the lab's nuclear weapons work and diverting its thousands of scientists into research on global warming, alternative energy sources and other subjects, that'll be a moral victory.

Group Files Longshot Bid for Control of Lab [SFGAte]