Issues > Nuclear Energy, Waste & Weapons Main Page > All Nuclear Energy, Waste & Weapons Documents

When Peer Review Fails
The Roots of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Debacle

This June 2000 report from NRDC's nuclear program details serious problems with the National Ignition Facility, a laser facility under construction by the Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, including enormous cost overruns as well as the likely inability of the project to achieve its primary mission -- fusion ignition. The report, written by NRDC senior researcher Christopher Paine, also offers recommendations regarding the future of the NIF.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary
Findings
List Of Acronymns
Addendum: Personal Views of the Author

Related NRDC Pages
NRDC's NIF and Stockpile Stewardship Resource Page

Sign up for NRDC's online newsletter

See the latest issue >

Clean Energy Common Sense - Buy Now

Nuclear Document Bank

More nuclear documents, reports and presentations.
read more >

Related NRDC Press Releases

9/16/2009
NRDC Endorses Senate Bill to Limit Nuclear Proliferation
4/8/2009
Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex For Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
4/8/2009
New Report Recommends Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Nuclear Disarmament

More >

Related Links

Find NRDC on
YouTube