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basis of existing and planned facilities in other nations, the development 

 of consensus on the precise scope of the facilities through multilateral 

 discussions and early joint planning, and the readiness of each national 

 program to proceed promptly with the facility most appropriate to its cir- 

 cumstance. 



I believe this program can be best determined through the Summit process now 

 under way. Under the auspices of the Summit, a policy level framework, 

 called the Fusion Working Group (FWG), has been established for fusion 

 discussions. The FWG has chartered a Technical Working Party (TWP) consist- 

 ing of senior technical leaders from the US, Japan, Member States of the 

 European Community, and Canada. The TWP has just had its first meeting in 

 Japan. The purpose of this meeting was to begin the process of identifying 

 the principal facilities required in a world fusion program. Their first 

 priority is to Identify the requirements for resolving the properties of 

 burning plasma issue. In other, more specialized forums, experts are 

 attempting the joint planning of specific programs in the four issue areas. 

 On the basis of these many inputs and their own deliberations on a coordi- 

 nated set of complementary facility steps, the TWP will recommend to the FWG 

 those major facilities required to reach the goal of the fusion program. 



