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INTRODUCTION 



The Summit Working Group in Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion was established 

 in 1983 in response to the Declaration of the Heads of State and Government 

 at the Versailles Economic Summit meeting of 1982 (Appendix A), and in 

 response to the subsequent report of the Working Group in Technology, Growth 

 and Employment (TGE) as endorsed at the Williamsburg Summit meeting, 1983. 

 Representatives appointed by the governments of the seven Economic Summit 

 countries (Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, 

 the United Kingdom and the United States) and a representative of the 

 Commission of the European Communities met in Washington, D.C. on September 

 29 and 30, 1983 under the co-leadership of the United States and the 

 European Communities. A report of the conclusions of this meeting has been 

 published and a progress report was included in the TGE Working Group report 

 to the 1984 London Summit (Appendix B). 



Following the London Summit, the fusion Working Group met in Brussels July 5 

 and 6 to consider the implementation of collaborative projects taking into 

 account the conclusions issued in the Communique from London (Appendix C) 

 and the recommendations of the TGE report. In particular, paragraph 22 of 

 the report recommended: 



"22. Effective cost sharing is becoming a more important element in 

 the construction of major new facilities. Collaborative projects would 

 benefit if coherent long term plans for the construction and sharing of 

 facilities in our countries were to be developed." 



The London Communique had the following invitation: 



"We welcome the further report of the Working Group on Technology, 

 Growth and Employment created by the Versailles Economic Summit and the 

 progress made in the 18 areas of co-operation, and invite the Group to 

 pursue further work and to report to personal representatives in time 

 for the next Economic Summit." 



A summary of the progress of the Summit Working Group in Controlled 

 Thermonuclear Fusion, prepared for the Bonn Economic Summit of May 1985, 

 is included as the first section of the Annual Report. 



The discussions at Brussels were based on the intermediate term strategies 

 of each Summit Nation and lead to the creation of Subpanels with specific 

 charges for action. The first Subpanel was charged with planning for 

 collaboration on major new fusion research facilities. The second was 

 charged with identifying key areas in physics, technology and reactor 

 concept improvement for near-term, beneficial international collaborations. 

 The Working Group agreed to provide support to a Subpanel established by the 

 Summit Working Group in High Energy physics, to investigate administrative 

 obstacles that can affect all international collaboration in science and 

 technology. Subpanel membership is listed in Appendix D. 



The three Subpanels presented their findings to the Working Group at a 

 meeting in Cadarache, France, January 15 and 16, 1985. Following the 

 reviews and discussions, a report was prepared for the TGE Working Group on 

 the conclusions and recommendations of the fusion Working Group. The papers 

 and reports of the two meetings comprise the Activities section. 



