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On this basis, the Subpanel decided to recommend to the FWG the 

 establishment of a technical working party to prepare the groundwork for 

 further collaboration on major new facilities, emphasizing the physics and 

 technology of burning plasma as a first stage. The recommended technical 

 working party would be composed of three to five experts of each major 

 program and one or two experts from Canada. The charter would be as 

 follows: 



Charter for the Major New Fusion Facilities Technical Working Party 



The objectives are these: To recommend ways to improve transfer of 

 information among programs to further the establishment of a scientific 

 and technical consensus on the nature of required future facilities. 

 To review jointly the current planning and design activities for the 

 purpose of defining potential, common, large facilities required for 

 the resolution of the principal scientific and technological Issues in 

 the areas of burning plasma physics, concept improvement, blanket 

 technology including energy recovery technology, and high neutron 

 fluence materials development, and to ascertain those elements with 

 common development requirements and recommend to the FWG appropriate 

 common studies to establish the basis for future collaboration. The 

 technical working party will meet periodically to ensure common under- 

 standing of the individual approaches Including design and program 

 plans covering the next ten to fifteen years. The working party will 

 continue its activities throughout the process of defining the minimum 

 number of new major facility steps. This will strengthen the early 

 joint planning for such major fusion facilities. The working party 

 shall report only to the FWG. 



The Subpanel also noted that because of the time required to develop 

 collaboration on major new facilities, it was especially Important to take 

 those near-term steps being explored by the subgroups in Subpanel 2. The 

 Subpanel thus endorsed the work of Subpanel 2 as a means of building working 

 collaboration on current activities thereby strengthening the infrastructure 

 to support collaboration on future large facilities. With the formulation 

 of the recommendation to the FWG for a "major new fusion facilities 

 technical working party," the Subpanel believed that sufficient preparation 

 for the January meeting of the FWG had been completed and that it need not 

 reconvene before that meeting. The Subpanel recommends to keep In view the 

 total international effort in planning and coordination. 



