Large Tokamak Experiments (Report on the IAEA Technical Committee Meeting, Dubna, 1975)

There are four large next-generation tokamak devices presently being designed. These are: (1) the JET (Joint European Torus) project sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities in association with EURATOM, (2) the TCT (Two-Component Torus) project underway in the United States of America, (3) the JT-60 (Japan-Tokamak) project of Japan and the T-20 tokamak project of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The meeting held in Dubna provided an opportunity for leading members of the various projects to discuss the scientific objectives and detailed design features of each device, with the hope that an informal exchange of information on what each team was trying to do and how it was going about it could lead to some useful co-ordination of effort and avoidance of duplicate effort. The timing of the meeting was such that any resulting design modifications could yet be incorporated into present designs, even in the most advanced of the projects.