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in La JoHa, California. In 1979, as a consequence of a meeting between 

 Prime Minister Fukuda and President Carter, the Japanese Foreign Minister and 

 the Secretary of Energy signed a ten-year agreement for cooperation in 

 Energy and Related R&D. Fusion was one of the main areas for cooperation. 

 This provided the requisite political support for cooperation at the highest 

 level. This political support was essential because the Japan Atomic Energy 

 Research Institute (JAERI) already had its own institutional plans for a 

 facility to address the technical issues and had to make a difficult deci- 

 sion to depend upon a foreign facility in its place. Following these 1979 

 actions, JAERI has provided approximately $70 million to upgrade and operate 

 jointly the Doublet-Ill facility. JAERI supports a team of Japanese physi- 

 cists who share experimental operating time equally with GA Technology 

 scientists. The scientific and programmatic success of this collaboration 

 is illustrated by the record plasma conditions achieved during this period. 

 These parameters were obtained earlier and at less cost than either side 

 could have managed alone. 



Important factors in implementing this cooperative activity were the level 

 of political support, the high priority both participants assigned to this 

 work and the continued senior program management involvement in the Steering 

 Committee. Doublet III represents plasma physics concerns of equal priority 

 to both the DOE and Japanese fusion program. Furthermore, the technical 

 results of this collaboration are important to both programs today, not at 

 some unspecified time in the future. 



