National Ignition Facility: Management & Oversight Failures Caused Major Cost Overruns & Schedule Delays

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Year: 2000
Pages: 45
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756705371

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Jim Wells (ed); Gary Boss (ed). The Univ. of CA, under contract to the DoE to operate Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., is building the Nat. Ignition Facility. DoE considers the Nat. Ignition Facility an essential component of its Stockpile Stewardship Program, which is responsible for ensuring the safety & reliability of nuclear weapons in the absence of nuclear testing. The Nat. Ignition Facility was originally expected to cost about $2 billion when complete in 2002, but DoE has increased the cost & moved the completion date to 2006. This report determines the magnitude of the Nat. Ignition Facility’s cost & schedule overruns; documents the reasons for them; & assesses the effects of the Nat. Ignition Facility’s cost & schedule on other weapons programs. Tables.

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