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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: 



Thank you for Che opportunity to speak on the topic of Intern^.tional 

 Collaboration in Science. As you requested, I will give you a historical 

 perspective on the international aspects of the Fusion Materials Irradiation 

 Test Facility (FMIT). However, I would like to introduce that perspective 

 with some general remarks on international collaboration in fusion. 



Recently the Magnetic Fusion Program Plan was adopted by Secretary 

 Herrington. In this plan, international collaboration is viewed as a 

 resource to establish an adequate fusion science and technology base in a 

 timely fashion. At present, we have several vehicles to pursue fruitful 

 collaboration. These include agreements on various topics in both science 

 and technology, either as bilateral agreements with the leading nations in 

 fusion research, or as multilateral agreements through international organi- 

 zations. These agreements cover every aspect of our comprehensive program 

 and are with the USSR, Japan, Spain, the PRC, and the UK bilaterally, and 

 through the auspices of the International Energy Agency (lEA), with the 

 European Community (EC), Japan, Canada and Switzerland, multilaterally. A 

 bilateral agreement with the EC and three other agreements are in the final 

 stages of negotiation. 



We began to consider enhancement of international collaboration two years 

 ago. At that time, I commissioned a study by the National Academy of 

 Sciences to evaluate past collaboration, to consider the consequences of 

 greater involvement with other countries in the future, and to recommend 

 appropriate actions. This panel found tliat in the years ahead a program 

 with increased international collaboration was preferable to a predominantly 



