Re: NIF update.
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I reply to my own message!....................

Need to be stunningly depressed
Want to see your tax dollars NOT at work?
Got a couple of reams of paper?

go to

GAO.gov

select search.........once at the engine, search simply on "NIF" . The first Doc is the 50 page report delivered to congress in August of last year (2000).

This will tell the tale all too clearly. There are many docs on the NIF by the GAO, as one oversight committee after another peer into the mismanagement, budget errors, etc.

It is interesting to note that the facility is mainly a DOE operation! This is for the Nuclear Stewardship program with a daliance at the public good thrown in by DOE looking at usable fusion energy.

The main mission is not clean energy, but better, cleaner, more surgical nukes with zero testing of acutal devices. Clean energy is a mere "mouse dropping" result based on the thought that what goes in must come out. Let's use the droppings if it looks feasible, but what we really want most is to observe the well fed mouse.

Really guys, this thing looks grim and its gettin' grimmer. The project from it original estimates and completion time frame has leaped to needing about

2,000 million MORE bucks needed and another 6 years of time. BUT REAL SOON NOW.

Hey! The tokomak guys got away with it! Why can't we?
Plus this is National Security here too.

Check it out for, if nothing else, the zanny and whacko spin through getting things done the government way.

What could be done with just a fraction of that in IECF? Would it too become a boondoggle?

Richard Hull


Created on Friday, January 26, 2001 10:34 AM EDT by Richard Hull