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o early consultation to Identify mutual needs and to develop the best 



approaches to meeting those needs is crucial; 

 o agreements must clearly define objectives, roles and responsibilities; and 

 o firm connaitments must be honored. 



To illustrate our experiences, I would like to review and contrast our 

 extended cooperation in two different areas, one dealing with materials 

 testing facilities and the other plasma physics experimentation. 



International cooperation on FMIT has been discussed since 1974. One of the 

 first actions of the newly formed lEA was to consider cooperation on the 

 fusion materials testing facilities. At this time, the Atomic Energy 

 Commission (AEC) had decided to construct one such facility, the Intense 

 Neutron Source (INS) and a second more powerful facility, the FMIT, was 

 under discussion. 



In 1976 an lEA agreement to cooperate on the R&D' needed for the INS was 

 signed. The previous year, the U.S. had convened an international conference 

 to consider future materials testing requirements. This conference estab- 

 lished the need for a more powerful facility than the INS and in 1977 the 

 U.S. decided to construct the FMIT facility. Recognizing that the U.S. 

 could not support the construction of two facilities, we terminated the INS 

 project in 1978 and we invited the participants in the lEA INS R&D agreement 

 to participate in the new FMIT project R&D. In 1980 a new lEA agreement on 

 fusion materials development was signed and FMIT R&D was included as an 



