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2.2 Bilateral cooperative actions 



- US/Japan 



The cooperation in fusion between USA and Japan entered into a new 

 phase in May 1979 with the signing of the Agreement on cooperation 

 in Energy and Related Fields. The agreement specifically designated 

 fusion as one of the areas of initial emphasis. The coordinating 

 Committee on Fusion Energy is empowered to coordinate, implement 

 and oversee the cooperative activities. The cooperative program now 

 includes seven individual parts: Personnel Exchange, Joint 

 Planning in six areas. Doublet III Cooperation, Joint Institute for 

 Fusion Theory, RTNS-II Cooperation, HFIR/ORR Cooperation, and FNS 

 Cooperation. 



- US/Canada 



Canada is working closely with the US TFTR program with Canadian 

 experts participating in the design of the Remote Handling Systems 

 for the D-T Burning Phase of TFTR. A defining agreement has been 

 negotiated. 



- CEC/Canada 



A bilateral Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and the 

 European Community has been negotiated and is being finalized. It 

 covers collaborative exchanges in fusion including confinement 

 physics, plasma heating, tritium technology and remote handling. 



- US/UK 



The Cockcroft-Libby Exchange of Letters has provided a mechanism for 

 long-term personnel assignments at the DOE and Culham laboratories in 

 the field of fusion. 



2.3 Informal 



Bilateral cooperation on a more or less informal basis has taken 

 place in the last few years between practically all Fusion 

 Programmes under consideration (Joint Workshops, exchange of staff, 

 even exchange of teams). For instance, exchanges of teams took 

 place between Frascati, Jutphaas and MIT on the Alcator progranme, 

 and between Fontenay and Princeton on the ion cyclotron resonance 

 heating programme of PLT. 



