A troubled €300 million nuclear physics research facility in Romania may now have to do without one of its main components.
that pandemic-related delays had made the company’s schedule “tight.” But he was nevertheless confident the company could install the gamma ray source by early 2023, as stipulated in the contract. Indeed, according to ELI Delivery Consortium Director General Allen Weeks, as recently as September 2021 ELI-NP told its scientific advisory committee that, aside from a few small delays, the company had made good progress with the gamma ray source.
Ur confirms that Lyncean has “very big problems” in honoring the contract, but says the company intends to try to solve those problems—while pushing back delivery to the end of 2023. He admits that a failure to deliver the gamma ray source would be a “disaster” for the project, potentially forcing Romania to pay the European Union back tens of millions of euros for the unrealized hardware.
Sorin Costreie, a research adviser to Romania’s prime minister, is confident that ELI-NP will end up with a gamma ray source—despite uncertainty about who will provide it. “Maybe we will finish the job with EuroGammaS,” he says. After so much acrimony, would the consortium be willing to try again? Pierluigi Campana, who represents Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics on EuroGammaS’s governing board, says he won’t rule out the possibility but stresses that any new contract would entail renewed negotiations.
Weeks is confident that ELI-NP will fire up even without the gamma source, arguing that the project could enable “some interesting science” with its laser systems alone. But the absence of the source, he says, would mean “a major part of the science case is missing.”
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