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In order to implement this plan the following actions have been started 

 during the present 5-year programme (1982-86) and will be vigorously pursi 

 during the 1985-89 programme recently approved by the Commission and 

 submitted to the European Parliament and to the Council for adoption; 



The NET team has been constituted in March 1983 and is 

 hosted by IPP-Garching. Its present tasks are: 



to define the basic objectives of NET, outline its 

 essential components and determine the research and 

 development needs for its later construction, 



to be the focal point and to provide guidance for 

 the current fusion effort, particularly for the 

 technology programme, 



to provide the technical elements for a decision at 

 the end of 1984 on the future strategy and for the 

 corresponding revision of the programme, 



to strengthen the European capability for inter- 

 national cooperation on the Next Step, 



to produce the future European contributions to the 

 INTOR conceptual design as long as this is continued. 



In the physics area, the emphasis will be on heating and 

 impurity problems. This programme will be implemented 

 on the devices which already exist or are under 

 construction as shown in Fig. 3, 



Work was progressively started or intensified in the six 

 branches of fusion technology: Tritium, Superconducting 

 Magnets, Remote Operation, Blanket, Materials, Safety & 

 Environment. This activity will be considerably 

 increased (more than doubled) in the next 5-year 

 programme. 



In the field of confinement systems alternative to tokamaks 

 the activity is concentrated on Stel 1 arators (Garching and 

 on Reversed Field Pinches (mainly Padova). 



