- 2 - C'est ainsi qu'en 1987 la Communauté, le Japon, les Etats-Unis et l'URSS ont décidé de mener ensemble le projet ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) qui rassemble les 4 grands programmes fusion en vue de mener à bien les travaux d'avant- projet de conception d'un prototype de réacteur.
In this light, in 1987 the Community, Japan, the USA and USSR jointly decided to cooperate in this area, through the ITER project which brings together all four major fusion programmes as equal partners in the conceptual design of an engineering test reactor (*) A tokamak is a ring-form construction inside which fusion reactions are confined which liberate temperatures of several millions degrees centigrade.
