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Appendix B: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
Pages 221-225

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... The next major step in the worldwide magnetic confinement fusion research will be to achieve a fusion burning plasma in which the plasma is dominantly self-heated by the fusion reaction products. This step will be taken in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, now simply known as ITER, whose construction is slated to begin at Cadarache, in the south of France, in 2008 (Figure B.2)
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... The ITER Parties will for the largest part give components for the machine, so-called in-kind contributions. The ITER project was launched as a Reagan-Gorbachev Presidential Initiative in 1985, with equal participation by the United States, Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union through the 1988-1998 initial design phases of the original ITER project.
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... ITER is projected to extend fusion power and duration to the crucial burning plasma regime.
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... Because the ITER project has been truly international from its inception in 1985 as an initiative of Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev and is the largest joint international scientific endeavor ever undertaken, it will probably become the model for large international science experiments. Magnetic fusion research has a long history of strong international collabora
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... The United States had about a third of the world fusion budget in 1980 and became the dominating leader in fusion science and technology in the late 1970s; its leadership continued into the early 1990s. Close collaborations between experimental teams on different fusion devices around the world are now quite common, most often to check scaling of the behavior of plasma phenomena across different sizes and types of experiments.
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