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November 01, 2001

Letter to Secretary of Energy Seeking U.S. Representation at International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Meetings

Letterhead for the Committee on Science
November 1, 2001

The Hon. Spencer Abraham
Secretary
US Department of Energy
James Forrestal Building
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20585

Dear Mr. Secretary:

We are writing to urge you to begin sending a representative to the international discussions regarding the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor (ITER), which, as you know, is a major fusion research initiative.  The next set of discussions will be held in Toronto, on November 8 or 9.  While it may be too late to have a U.S. representative attend that session, the U.S. should send a representative, at least as an observer, to follow-up meeting, now scheduled for Tokyo in December....

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