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Nature 402, 449 (2 December 1999) | doi:10.1038/44904

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...as Livermore blasted for laser project

Rex Dalton

A review committee set up by the University of California has concluded that mismanagement and poor planning are to blame for significant cost overruns and delays in construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest laser, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.The ten-member committee, headed by Steve Koonin, provost of the California Institute of Technology, was set up by the University of California's President's Council to examine construction problems at NIF that were identified in August (see Nature 401, 101; 1999).