ajb Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 Iter (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) may be in trouble due to soaring estimates on the cost. The original cost was put at £3.6 billion and has now risen to £10 billion, according to emails leaked to the BBC. Have a look at the BBC news report.
ecoli Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. That's a huge price tag for something that may not even work (and if it does it'll be a long time coming).
ajb Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 That's a huge price tag for something that may not even work (and if it does it'll be a long time coming). That is the nature of experimental science.
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