GAO: ITER cost, schedule outside DOE's control

摘要

Cost overruns and schedule delays continue to beset the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) to an extent that has not been made public by the ITER Organization, which prefers to emphasize only the positive aspects of the multinational magnetic confinement fusion project. While for about the past three years the cost issue has been especially contentious in the European Community-which has committed to covering about 45 percent of the cost of construction-it garnered some attention in the United States in June when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued the report Fusion Energy: Actions Needed to Finalize Cost and Schedule Estimates for U.S.