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that international collaboration is desired by the EC, although the 

 extent and nature still are to be determined. 



With regard to international cooperation, there are several 

 different possibilities: 



o The EC, Japan, and. the United States prefer to place primary 



reliance on their own programs in a self-sufficient way. 

 o All three entities prefer to place primary reliance on their 



own programs, subject, however, to joint planning of scientific 



and technical developments, 

 o Two or three of the entities desire to establish international 



relations that have a high degree of interdependence. 



The attitude at the EC level seemed to be that the first possibility 

 is not desired and that they are prepared to proceed at this time with 

 the second, with the remote possibility of moving to the third 

 sometime later if other matters are progressing well. 



An International Energy Agency official cautioned that U.S. 

 insistence on strict quid pro quo is counterproductive. The official 

 also advised against completing a U.S. design for its proposed Tokamak 

 Fusion Core Experiment (TFCX) and then asking for international 

 financial support for such a design. This move would repeat the 

 Fusion Materials Irradiation Test (FMIT) mistake. 



No serious thought of large-scale collaboration with the USSR was 

 evident. 



TECHNICAL NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES 



EC seems to have a coherent and unified technical program, with JET at 

 the center and with complementary efforts filling gaps without 

 duplication of effort. An extension to world cooperation first 

 requires some consensus on the future world program, then improved 

 collaboration on smaller projects, like FMIT, and then advances to 

 larger projects. International agreements in force, such as TEXTOR, 

 Large Coil Task (LCT) , and Radiation Damage in Fusion Materials, lend 

 encouragement to this view. 



Large Machines 



There was universal EC agreement on the JET to NET to demonstration 

 reactor (DEMO) strategy. NET will be the basis for international 

 cooperation on the next step. The aim of the 1985-1989 EC program is 

 to establish the physics basis for NET, intended to be a burning 

 reactor. Reactor-relevant technology is planned in conjunction with 

 NET, but individuals disagree as to the relative importance of this 

 feature. 



German officials favored several world-class machines to provide 

 the technical diversity necessary for achieving optimal solutions for 

 a fusion reactor. German officials also felt that EC must have its 



