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Reviewing the above and the individual conclusions 

 stated earlier, the overall conclusion derived by the 

 conmittee was : 



For the U.S. at this time, large- scale international 

 collaboration is preferable to a mainly domestic 

 program which would have to command substantial 

 additional resources for the competitive pursuit of 

 fusion energy development or run the risk of forfeiture 

 of equality with other world programs . 



