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APPENDIX B 

 SUMMARY OF DOMESTIC WORKSHOPS 



Two domestic workshops were conducted to explore viewpoints within the 

 United States on the opportunities, policies, and arrangements bearing 

 on a qualitatively higher level of international cooperation in the 

 development of magnetic fusion energy. The salient views as expressed 

 by the workshop participants are summarized here. These views were 

 considered, but not necessarily adopted, by t committee in reaching 

 its conclusions. For convenience, each workshop is described 

 separately, in approximate correspondence with its topical sessions. 



FIRST WORKSHOP 

 The agenda for the first workshop is shown in Figure 1. 



Technical and Programmatic Considerations 



In the past the United States has gained substantial technical 

 benefits for its magnetic fusion program from international 

 cooperation. Foreign fusion programs have scientific, technical, and 

 engineering strengths in many areas that are comparable, if not 

 superior, to those of the United States: 



o Japan — solid breeding materials, superconducting magnets, 



materials, neutronics, engineering design, 

 o European Community (EC) — liquid breeding materials, 



superconducting magnets, materials, plasma-wall interaction, 



tokamak physics, stellarator physics, tritium, reversed-f ield 



pinch physics, nuclear technology, radio-frequency heating 



technology, 

 o Soviet Union — plasma-wall interaction, superconducting magnets, 



tokamak physics, tandem-mirror physics, radio-frequency heating 



technology. 



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