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Despite its promising ambitions, DUNE faces myriad challenges including budget overruns and substantial delays. Originally projected to start operations in 2024, the timeline has shifted, with current estimations placing the project completion into the early 2030s. The financial implications are sizable, with costs exceeding $3 billion earmarked for the initial phase alone amidst complications arising from organizational disagreements and external demands from funding bodies.
These setbacks have raised concerns within the scientific community about DUNE's viability relative to competing projects, such as Hyper-Kamiokande and the Juno experiment, which seek to explore similar phenomena with differing methodologies and are currently ahead in the race.