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APPENDIX D 

 SUMMARY OF TRIP TO EUROPE 



Some of the members and staff of the Committee on International 

 Cooperation in Magnetic Fusion, of the Energy Engineering Board of the 

 National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, met with a 

 number of officials in Europe from May 20-25, 1984. The members were 

 Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., chairman, Robert R. Borchers, Melvin B. 

 Gottlieb, L. Manning Muntzing, and Daniel E. Simpson. In addition 

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

 accompanied the group. 



Visits were made in Brussels to officials of (1) the Directorate 

 General for Science, Research and Development of the Commission of the 

 European Communities and (2) the U.S. Ambassador to the Commission of 

 the European Communities. The group also met in Bonn with officials 

 of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology and the Max Planck 

 Institute for Plasma Physics. In Paris the group conferred with 

 officials of (1) the Institute for Basic Research of the Nuclear 

 Studies Center (2) the International Energy Agency, and (3) the 

 Embassy of the United States. The group then visited the Joint 

 European Torus and Culham Laboratory of the United Kingdom Atomic 

 Energy Authority, both near Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, England. 

 Finally the group met with officials of the U.K. Atomic Energy Agency 

 in London. The group interacted with about 40 individuals. The 

 itinerary is given in Figure 1. 



PRINCIPAL IMPRESSIONS 



Before discussion at somewhat greater length, the principal 

 impressions from the trip may be stated as follows: 



o The need to develop fusion energy is not equally urgent in 

 Japan, the European Community (EC) , and the United States, 

 that the incentives to cooperate are not equally strong. 



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