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Dear Colleagues, ITER, long held to be a possible model for how to proceed with the ILC, is experiencing a number of issues related to scope and costing. Nature has an in-depth article describing the current situation and possible future actions. Titled "Fusion dreams delayed", it is available online at: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090527/full/459488a.html " Faced with ballooning costs and growing delays, ITER's seven partners are likely to build only a skeletal version of the device at first ... known as 'Scenario 1' to ITER insiders ... " " ... the first experiments capable of validating fusion for power would not come until the end of 2025, five years later than the date set when the ITER agreement was signed in 2006. " There is an accompanying editorial arguing against the "ITER value" system of accounting and arguing strongly for full financial disclosure . You can read "Transparency needed" at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7246/full/459483b.html Sincerely, Norman Graf