APPENDIX 5 



MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACILITIES 



These programs carry out a wide variety of international activi- 

 ties including informal information exchange, informal collaboration 

 by researchers, and formal umbrella agreements which allow the coun- 

 tries involved to carry our specific technical projects such as joint 

 funding of research and hardware. While each of the programs is in- 

 volved in some or all of these activities, the role and level of in- 

 volvement varies from program to program and evolves according to 

 scientific need and economic and political conditions both in the 

 United States and abroad. Since there are so many factors involved, 

 it is difficult to project the potential for international coopera- 

 tion on a facility-facility-basis. 



The ability to provide cost estimates for foreign facilities 

 also varies from program to program and by facility. The more signi- 

 ficant factor, however, is that funding information for foreign fa- 

 cilities is not generally comparable to U.S. cost estimates because 

 foreign estimates generally include only the cost of construction 

 materials but not the cost of construction manpower. Estimates of 

 U.S. construction costs include both. 



In addition to the facilities included in this appendix, which 

 are believed to be the main ones, there are several other synchrotron 

 sources being planned and at various stages of approval. These in- 

 clude ones at Grenoble, France, which is a combined European effort 

 (5 GeV); the People's Republic of China (2.8 GeV); the U.S.S.R. (2.5 

 GeV); Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1.3 GeV); Taiwan (1.0 GeV); and 

 India (0.8 GeV). 



The information in this appendix was supplied by the Department 

 of Energy, April 16, 1985, and by the National Bureau of Standards, 

 April 1985. 



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