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Major Facilities 



Currently only one major facility is jointly funded and operated. It 

 is the Doublet III (D-III) tokamak at GA Technologies, Incorporated. 

 An independent subagreement under the U.S. -Japan agreement on energy 

 covers the collaboration, which comes under STA. 



One of the principal purposes of the agreement was to give a 

 Japanese physics team experience operating a large tokamak prior to 

 the operation of the JT-60 machine in Japan. The cooperation is still 

 active and has resulted in a vigorous and technically valuable program 

 at D-III. 



FUTURE COOPERATION 



The technical justification and need for cooperation will continue to 

 exist. If, as this committee recommends, more cooperation is to 

 occur, even to the extent of substantial internationalizing of the 

 program, such activities must make technical sense. This section 

 covers some of the areas where cooperation, if increased, could have 

 substantial impact toward improving the technical productivity of 

 fusion. To be avoided, of course, is narrowing the focus of the 

 progreun too soon or only seeking lowest common denominator solutions. 



Meetings, Workshops, and Personnel Exchanges 



Meetings, workshops, and personnel exchanges will continue to be of 

 great importance even in a highly coordinated program. A coordinated 

 program would provide increased breadth, so that useful cross 

 fertilization between various concepts and various solutions to 

 technology problems will occur. 



In one case of a highly coordinated program, namely that of the EC, 

 there is an efficient and formal mechanism to allow people to work 

 temporarily in another laboratory. A worldwide coordinated program 

 should also make such opportunities more widely available. 



Joint Planning 



Joint planning as a form of implementation of cooperation is discussed 

 at greater length in the next chapter. It is assumed here that future 

 cooperation will involve significant joint planning. 



Potential Joint Projects 



The technical success of joint activities up to the present is a major 

 reason that this committee recommends expanded activity in the 



