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CHARGES TO SUBPANELS 



SUMMIT WORKING GROUP ON 

 CONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR FUSION 



Brussels, Belgium 

 July 5 and 6, 1984 



CHARGES TO SUBPANELS 



PREAMBLE 



The Economic Summit leaders endorsed the report of the Working Group on 

 Technology, Growth and Employment presented to them at their London meeting 

 of June 1984. In the Communique, the leaders invited the Working Group to 

 pursue further work and to report to personal representatives in time for 

 the next Economic Summit. 



New sources of energy will be required in the next century. Magnetic fusion 

 is one potential source of energy. It requires that its scientific and 

 technical feasibility be established as soon as realistically possible. The 

 rapid progress in fusion research gives great promise that this can be done 

 with greater effectiveness and efficiency if Summit countries' resources are 

 used cooperatively. 



To facilitate the necessary development of fusion on an international basis, 

 attention must be given to improved coordination in both the near and long 

 term. Two Subpanels have been established to identify opportunities for 

 further collaboration. The first will address planning and collaboration on 

 the required major new fusion research facilities. The second will address 

 near-term collaboration in ongoing physics and technology activities. 

 Administrative issues will be addressed in common with the efforts of the 

 Summit Working Group on High Energy Physics. Each Head of Delegation shall 

 appoint an individual to take responsibility to ensure that the required 

 tasks are accomplished and coordinated. 



The fusion programs of the Summit Nations are now aimed at establishing the 

 scientific base for fusion and at laying the technological foundation for 

 future developments. These developments require major new facilities both 

 to establish technological feasibility with a burning plasma and to 

 demonstrate a fusion reactor concept. In each of the three large fusion 

 programs developed in Sumnit Nations some of these new large facilities are 

 under study, although no final decisions have been made. Paragraph No. 22 

 of the 1984 Report of the Working Group on Technology, Growth and Employment 

 to the London Summit Nations states that: 



"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." 



