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 1. planning and CoTlaboration on Major New Fusion Research Facilities 

 The Fusion Working Group believes, that taking as a basis: 



a) the common goal of bringing to fruition a new energy source using fuels 

 which are practically inexhaustible and which possess potential advantages 

 from an environmental point of view, 



b) the existing national and regional programmes and activities, 



it is now time to initiate the process of identifying the nature and timing 

 of major facilities required to establish the feasibility fusion. 



Useful collaboration will require joint planning activities at an early stage. 

 A prerequisite for this will be mutual understanding of the present 

 activities, planning and strategies of the three major programmes. This can 

 most readily be accomplished by setting up a Working Party composed of 

 technical experts (no more than five experts from each major programme and 

 up to two experts from Canada) recommended to the Fusion Working Group by the 

 Sunmit Members. The Fusion Working Group will seek nominations of Members to 

 this Technical Working party and will convene it to begin its work as soon as 

 the membership is complete with the following terms of reference: 



The objective of the Working Party is to improve the transfer of information 

 among the programmes in order to further the establishment of a scientific 

 and a technical consensus on the nature of required future facilities in 

 fusion. The Working Party should review the current options being developed 

 for programmes to resolve the four technical problem areas of burning plasma 

 physics, concept improvement, fusion blanket technology and fusion materials 

 placing emphasis on burning plasma as a first stage. 



The Working Party should examine the technical options for future facilities 

 which are being considered by Summit Members. The purpose should be to provide 

 collaborative options that minimize the cost of future fusion development on 

 an international basis. It should also seek to recommend new joint planning 

 activities to develop these options. It should present its conclusions to the 

 Fusion Working Group. Its first report should be ready by December 1, 1985. 



Meetings should be held in Europe, North America and Japan, if possible in 

 conjunction with other international meetings, as appropriate, in order to 

 minimize travelling time. Administrative and secretarial assistance should 

 be provided by the host programme. 



The input from the Working Party should allow the Fusion Working Group to 

 promote effective cost-sharing in the spirit of Article 22 of the Report of 

 the Technology, Growth and Employment Working Group to the London Economic 

 Summit (1984). 



