He he he he he... ITER delays

Don't make me laugh - ITER is the acronym of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
Pronounciation is like "eater" - appropriate as it has been consuming massive finances and resources with zero guarantee of performance.
And now this - from The Daily FInancial Trends:

ITER Fusion Reactor Faces More Delays
In an interview with the AFP news agency this week, Pietro Barabaschi, Director-General of ITER, said it may be years before the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), currently under development in France, produces any useful energy.

First launched in southern France in the 1980s, the project was designed to produce commercial electricity through nuclear fusion. It had been anticipated it would become a major large-scale source of carbon-free power by 2025.

Barabaschi has now conceded that the startup date, “wasn’t realistic in the first place,” and that now two new challenges impeding the project have emerged.

The first of the two new challenges is that the measurements for the joints of blocks which must be welded together for the reactor’s chamber have turned out to be wrongly calculated. The second issue is the recent discovery of traces of corrosion in a thermal shield which is required to contain the heat required to sustain the nuclear fusion reaction.

Barabaschi noted that fixing these issues “is not a question of weeks, but months, even years.”

But then again, this is nothing new - some headlines:

2009 - Schedule Concerns Delay ITER's Go-Ahead
2010 - Budget Red Tape in Europe Brings New Delay to ITER
2021 - Fusion Reactor Waylaid by Latest Waves of Covid Pandemic
2022 - ITER Reactor Assembly Delay Will Be at Least One Year

Like I said, nothing new...  And yes, our tax dollars are paying for this boondoggle.