[CPEO-MEF] Fed report blasts Livermore lab over costly laser facility

[mervtano@iiirm.org]

Nuclear-weapons scientists at a California national lab deliberately
misinformed the government about the status, cost and technical problems of
a controversial nuclear-weapons blast-simulator program, a congressionally
ordered investigation has found.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, 
recommends in a report scheduled to be released Thursday in Congress that
the Department of Energy now "arrange for an outside scientific and
technical review" of the National Ignition Facility.

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http://www.abqtrib.com/news/081600_nif.shtml


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