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82/350/Euratom: Council Decision of 25 May 1982 adopting a research and training programme (1982 to 1986) in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion

Official Journal L 157 , 08/06/1982 P. 0022 - 0025

Spanish special edition: Chapter 12 Volume 4 P. 0064

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COUNCIL DECISION

of 25 May 1982

adopting a research and training programme (1982 to 1986) in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion

(82/350/Euratom)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 7 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission submitted after consultation with the Scientific and Technical Committee,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (2),

Whereas the energy problem is shared by all the Member States; whereas joint efforts to resolve this problem are likely to produce better results; whereas thermonuclear fusion is one possible solution to the energy problem in the longer term; whereas the rational use of all the different energy sources must be coordinated; whereas the Community must therefore continue to ensure optimum consistency in its efforts between Community activities in the various sectors of energy and energy research;

Whereas, in its Decision 80/318/Euratom (3), as amended by Decision 81/380/Euratom (4), the Council adopted a research and training programme (1979 to 1983) in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion; whereas Article 3 of that Decision provides that the Commission will submit to the Council, not later than 1 July 1981, a review proposal designed to replace the 1979 to 1983 programme with a new five-year programme (1982 to 1986) with 1982 and 1983 constituting years common to both programmes; whereas Decision 80/318/Euratom should therefore be repealed;

Whereas, as a result of such repeal, 67 million ECU assigned to the preceding programme, exclusive of JET (Joint European Torus), and 35 million ECU assigned to the preceding programme for the JET project will remain available; whereas these amounts will be assigned to the new programme; whereas such a step must be taken into account in determining the upper limit for expenditure commitments necessary for the execution of the new programme;

Whereas, in view of the considerable efforts needed to reach the application stage of controlled thermonuclear fusion, which could be of benefit to the Community, particularly in the wider context of the security of its long-term energy supplies, the various stages of development of the work hitherto undertaken in this field should continue on a joint basis, attaching great importance to the strategy of concentrating effort on the Tokamak line and sizeable effort on two alternative lines in magnetic confinement, the reverse field pinch and stellarators, subject to a periodic reassessment of the reactor applicability of these lines compared with that of the Tokamak;

Whereas the scientific progress achieved in this field in recent years in the Community and the rest of the world illustrates the need, particularly for Tokamak systems, to construct larger and more complex devices and to concentrate in particular on the development of plasma heating techniques, attaching greater importance to experiments relating to ignition with compact

devices having a high magnetic field, if the feasibility thereof has been proved;

Whereas it is necessary to complete the construction of JET in its basic performance, to extend the device to its full performance and to operate and exploit it;

Whereas the time has come to start the definition of the large device constituting the next step after JET and to launch, with the collaboration of the Joint Research Centre, the technological developments required for its design...

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