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APPENDIX C 

 SUMMARY OF TRIP TO JAPAN 



Five members of the Committee on International Cooperation in Magnetic 

 Fusion, of the Energy Engineering Board of the National Research 

 Council-National Academy of Sciences, visited several magnetic fusion 

 organizations in Japan from April 9-14, 1984. The group consisted of 

 Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., chairman of the committee; Robert R. Borchers, 

 Melvin B. Gottlieb, Weston M. Stacey, Jr., and Robert E. Uhrig, all 

 members of the committee; and Dennis F. Miller and John M. Richardson, 

 of the committee staff. 



The group met in Tokyo with officials of the Science and Technology 

 Agency; the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture; the Ministry 

 of International Trade and Industry; the Japan Atomic Energy Research 

 Institute; the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum; and the Nuclear Fusion 

 Council of the Atomic Energy Commission. The group also conferred 

 with officials at laboratories of the Japan Atomic Energy Reseach 

 Institute at both Tokai and Naka-Machi, the Electrotechnical 

 Laboratory and University of Tsukuba at Tsukuba, and the Institute of 

 Plasma Physics of Nagoya University at Nagoya. Altogether, about 50 

 individuals participated in the various meetings. 



The itinerary is shown in Figure 1. 



PURPOSE AND ROLE 



The purpose of the trip was to exchange preliminary views on the 

 advantages and disadvantages of a greater level of international 

 cooperation in magnetic fusion development. The committee wished to 

 explore the technical needs and opportunities for international 

 cooperation, the benefits that might flow to the cooperating 

 countries, and the broad nature of the arrangements under which 

 cooperation might be conducted. The primary goal was to assess the 

 probability of cooperation on the "next big machine" and to find out 

 how such international cooperation might be brought about. 



The role of the travelers was to exchange views and to gather 

 information as informally as possible. The committee had no authority 

 to speak or act for the U.S. Government. The function of the 

 committee was purely advisory. 



