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INTRODUCTION 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, I am 

 Joseph Gavin, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Grumman 

 Corporation. I am pleased to testify before you today on 

 international cooperation of magnetic fusion energy. 



Because the magnetic fusion process holds unique 

 promise as a long-term energy source, efforts have persisted 

 for many years to solve its challenging scientific and 

 engineering problems. Major programs have been undertaken 

 by the United States, Europe, Japan and the Soviet Union. 

 As the size and complexity of the experimental devices' have 

 grown, international cooperation has occurred in order to 

 produce earlier results, to share risk, to minimize 

 investment or to acquire skills. Faced with even more 

 demanding future program requirements, officials of the U.S. 

 Department of Energy are considering whether greater levels 

 of international cooperation in magnetic. fusion is 

 desirable. 



In September 1983, I was asked by the National 

 Research Council to Chair the Committee on International 

 Cooperation in Magnetic Fusion Energy. The Committee 

 consisted of ten members with broad backgrounds in 

 electrical engineering, plasma physics, fusion technology, 



