Dear Colleagues, In his closing remarks to the ITRP, Dr. Totsuka touched briefly on the impact of ITER on the funding of the LC (see http://lcdev.kek.jp/ITRP/KEK/Presentations/yt_closing.pdf) See the following article for an update: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/05/26/japan.fusion.reactor.ap/index.html Norman Graf