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ITER, the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (to be sited in Cadarache, France) will employ magnetic confinement techniques to study "burning plasma" physics. It will be the largest and most expensive scientific instrument ever built for fusion research and is the next major step toward proving the scientific viabilit y viability of controlled fusion as an energy source. Participants in the project include the US, European Union, Japan, Korea, China and Russia. (India is currently negotiating entry). US scientists are engaged with their international partners in defining requirements and approaches for distributed collaboration and remote participation on this experiment. The plan is to test these approaches on existing facilities, such as the Alcator experiment at MIT, where widely based collaborations are already in place.
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