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this mission may be useful examples for future international 

 cooperative efforts of a highly specific nature: 



o The method of operation was documented before the program began, 

 o The project was managed by a technical project director, 

 o Each working group was cochaired by joint chairpersons, one 



from each country, 

 o Plans for the organization of the project established the 



documentation standards, 

 o Interacting Equipment Documents documented the technical 



requirements and were signed by the joint chairpersons as well 



as the technical directors, and copies were sent to all 



official files and all groups, 

 o Proposed changes were submitted on appropriate forms; there was 



no bypassing this procedure, 

 o Material for meetings was sent one month in advance. 

 " o Telecommunications were sent between the parties every two 



weeks, 

 o Translations were reverified after each meeting and differences 



were reconciled, 

 o The parties agreed to use a common system of units, namely the 



International System of Units (commonly known by its French 



acronym SI), with only a couple of specific agreed-upon 



exceptions. 



European Organization for Nuclear Research 



The European Organization for Nuclear Research is a successful 

 cooperative scientific organization, but its experience may not be 

 relevant to fusion power development. The sole objective of CERN is 

 the advancement of pure knowledge. There are few patent rights 

 involved, there is no potential military or commercial application, 

 and the transfer of "sensitive" technology usually is not a problem. 

 Even so, along the way CERN has developed a number of tools that have 

 been of economic value. Probably because of its success, CERN has 

 eroded its original "base of the pyramid" concept for high-energy 

 physics in Europe, in which each country was to provide its own "base" 

 program with CERN functioning only as the apex of the pyreimid. 

 Instead, CERN attracted the best West European scientists and 

 attracted most of the available money for large accelerator projects 

 in the individual Member States. As a result, CERN's research tools 

 are second to none in the world. 



CERN is governed by its Council, which has two representatives from 

 each country — one an administrative or political representative and 

 the other a scientific specialist. The financing of the organization 

 is through a percentage of gross national product of each country, 

 with a cap of 25 percent of CERN's budget on the contributions of any 

 country. The Council gives a stability to the organization, but it 

 constitutes an inertia that is hard to overcome to take advantage of 



